International Customs
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
Smuggler from Hong Kong with 1,000 diamonds in his shoes trips up at Shenzhen border
HONG KONG: A smuggler keen to evade taxes in mainland China tried to hotfoot it through a Shenzhen immigration control...
Sri Lanka to extend loans for rooftop solar systems
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka is taking major steps towards a solar future with this week’s announcement that it will extend the...
Comm Bank named Best Bank in Sri Lanka for 18th time by Global Finance
COLOMBO: The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has been named Sri Lanka’s Best Bank in 2017 by USA-based Global Finance, giving...
Australian oil stocks rise as crude recovers despite bloated market
CANBERRA: Australia energy index rises as much as 1.46 pct to 8,863.5 points. Index down 3.4 pct this year, as...
Australia sets its sights on Indonesia for fresh produce exports
CANBERRA: The Australian Horticulture Exporters’ Association (AHEA) has ensured that Australian horticultural industries were well represented in Jakarta during the...
Ukraine-Germany agree to hold business forum in Berlin in H2 of 2017
KIEV: Ukraine Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman and Chairman of German Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations Wolfgang Buchele at a...
Belgium urged to undertake indirect tax shift
BRUSSELS: Belgium should reduce its high corporate income and labor taxes and eliminate value-added tax (VAT) concessions, the International Monetary...
NZCS, FRCA sign agreement to strengthen border management
SUVA: An agreement to successfully deliver the Fiji Country Plan and strengthen border management was signed by the Fiji Revenue...
Brazilian woman convicted of human trafficking deported from U.S
BALTIMORE: A Brazilian national who was convicted and wanted by Brazilian authorities for international human trafficking for the purpose of...
Canada budget postpones rumored tax hikes as budget details revealed
OTTAWA: Trudeau's government had flirted with the idea of raising capital gains taxes or rates on the wealthy but instead...
Canada tax tweaks to hit oil-and-gas drillers and uber riders
OTTAWA: Oil-and-gas drillers, doctors, bus riders and brewers will pay more tax under the 2017 federal budget -- though most...
SARS seizes cocaine worth R2.6m at OR Tambo International Airport
JOHANNESBURG: South African Revenue Service (SARS) seized cocaine worth R2.6 million during a search at OR Tambo International Airport. "SARS...
U.S. crude stockpiles at record high as imports surge
WASHINGTON: U.S. crude oil stocks rose to a fresh record last week, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday, as...
Japan fruit & vegetables imports increase in 2016
TOKYO: In 2016, the Netherlands exported 402,000 kilograms of snack tomatoes to Japan. That is 134,000 kilograms more than in...
Spain: Broccoli exports stabilizes
MADRID: The secretary of the consortium for the promotion of broccoli, Javier Bernabéu, has confirmed that the export of this...
$335k in hard drugs seized by CBP officers
WASHINGTON: A man from Mexico has been arrested after U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers find more than $335,000 in...
UK car production hit 17-year high in Feb
LONDON: British car production hit a 17-year high in February, extending a recent trend of surging output as a strong...
UK economy gets boost as confident businesses plan to invest more
LONDON: Britain’s businesses have got their mojo back and are planning to increase investment this year, as their spirits pick...
Indian police nabs four involved in human skeleton smuggling
KOLKATA: Indian police arrested four suspected corpse smugglers and recovered 18 intact skeletons and other bones believed exhumed from cemeteries...
Turkey’s total oil imports rise 24.26% in Jan
ANKARA: Turkey raised its oil imports by 24.26 percent in January compared to the same month in 2016, Turkish Energy...
