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Pakistan’s first in-depth newspaper that presents balanced news reports, analysis and reviews regarding Customs, Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and Sales/Income Tax Departments beside covering import and export sectors comprehensively. Up-to-the-minute news bulletins regarding Customs and FBR departments are also displayed regularly on both website and face book for the interest of common people
Dulles CBP officers arrest alleged Florida child molester
WASHINGTON: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers arrested a Maryland man on Florida child molestation charges at Washington Dulles...
Turkish authorities seizes over 120 kilograms of hashish
ANKARA: Security forces seized 124 kilograms (274 pounds) of hashish in three separate operations in Turkey’s southern and eastern provinces...
OECD upgrades Turkey GDP growth forecast to 3.4%
ANKARA: The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Wednesday lifted Turkey’s growth forecast for the year to 3.4...
Iran Oil Ministry clarifies ‘biased’ report on South Pars Jacket
TEHRAN: The Oil Ministry issued a statement on Wednesday rebutting “biased” reports about the government’s collaboration with foreign contractors to...
Iran food exports up 8%
TEHRAN: Iran exported 1.178 million tons of food products worth $2.7 billion to more than 80 countries during the fiscal...
Russia joins multilateral anti-tax evasion convention
MOSCOW: Russia has joined a multilateral convention that allows to apply in practice the norms of international treaties to prevent...
Russian early-season wheat export at risk over Egypt’s fungus policy
MOSCOW: Russian wheat exports are at risk three weeks before the start of the new 2017/18 marketing season due to...
Customs C-G promises adequate cargo scanners at ports
ABUJA: The Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hameed Ali, retired has assured stakeholders of adequate scanners at the...
Customs foil plan to smuggle hashish to Libya
BEIRUT: Lebanese Customs Wednesday announced that they had intercepted a drug shipment headed for Libya from the Beirut Port, state...
Romania’s watermelon imports, 280 times higher than exports
WASHINGTON: Romania imported watermelons worth EUR 7.3 million in 2016, 280 times more than it exported, according to Eurostat data...
Island unemployment rate falls to 1%
WASHINGTON: The Island's unemployment rate fell slightly last month, to 1%. The 0.1% drop puts the number out of work...
Govt determines applicable taxes in Ncell deal
KHATMANDU: Almost one-and-a-half years after the TeliaSonera-Axiata corporate deal of Ncell, the government has finally determined the tax amount that...
Smuggled cigarettes worth NT$20m seized in Kaohsiung
TAIPEI: Kaohsiung Customs officers on Tuesday seized a shipping container of smuggled cigarettes that were estimated to have a market...
Spain’s Banco Popular sold to Santander to avoid failure
MADRID: European authorities announced Wednesday the sale of Spain's Banco Popular to compatriot Banco Santander to avert a looming failure...
Mubadala commits $15b to Softbank Vision Fund
KUWAIT CITY: Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala Investment Company has confirmed it has made a $15 billion commitment to the Softbank Vision...
Oman share index ends lower
MUSCAT: Weakness in the index large capitalisation shares dragged down the MSM30 Index by 0.64 per cent to end at...
Indonesia sells 14 trillion rupiah of bonds, above target
JAKARTA: Indonesia sold 14 trillion rupiah ($1.05 billion) of bonds at an auction, above the indicative target of 12 trillion...
Increasing freight flows between Antwerp and Germany
ANTWERP: 68.1 million tonnes of cargo were transported between the seaport of Antwerp and Germany during 2016. This represents growth...
Iraqi students held at KIA with pharma drugs worth 2.17 crore
BENGALURU: Two Iraqi B.Pharma students who attempted to smuggle pharmaceutical drugs worth over Rs 2.17 crore in 11 strolleys from...
Tax revenue helps cloak lower Swiss National Bank forex intervention
SWITZERLAND: The Swiss National Bank appears to have dialled back its currency market interventions, the scale of which in recent...
