Sentence examples for because of smuggling from inspiring English sources

Actual trade is believed to be larger because of smuggling.

Like the rest of Russia, only more so (because of smuggling), Kaliningrad's economy is hard to measure.

Official figures value Iran's imports at around $55 billion, but the real figure could be much higher because of smuggling and black market trade.

Mr. Ballou said the new facility in South Texas was necessary because the number of teenagers who were in jail because of smuggling cases had risen in recent years.

To the Editor: I would like to add to the vivid Lviv article two items: Before the Nazi occupation, the city was an important European center of Talmudic learning; secondly, drivers going to Poland might encounter long waits at the border because of the paperwork involved in entering the European Union, and because of smuggling concerns.

North Sinai, which stretches from the Suez Canal eastwards to the Gaza Strip and Israel, has long been a security headache for Egyptian security forces because of smuggling.

These locally made drugs, popular in New Zealand because of the difficulty of smuggling in conventional narcotics, had long circulated on the fringes of prohibition.

Because of the smuggling along this border, Myawadi is prosperous by Myanmar's standards.

The country's trade statistics have been severely underestimated because of widespread smuggling of consumer goods to Brazil and Argentina.

Because of the smuggling trade, some of those weapons may now end up in Sinai or Gaza, aimed at Israel.

They complained that sales had plummeted because of illegal smuggling from places like tiny Andorra, where cigarettes are 60percentt cheaper than in France.