Sentence examples similar to channel smuggling from inspiring English sources

Officials say the value of cross-channel smuggling has fallen sharply in the past year, from £1.6 billion to £400m.Some customs officers, though, have clearly been over-zealous.

In France, tobacco can be sold only through licensed shops.Adinkerke is the most obvious evidence of the explosive growth in cross-Channel smuggling of both tobacco and alcohol.

If the cigarette market goes the same way as hand-rolling tobacco, then increases in duty could actually result in an increase in overall consumption as well as a fall in revenues.Cross-Channel smuggling has now become part of the European debate in Britain.

A massive scandal broke when Quisling and Prytz were accused of using diplomatic channels to smuggle millions of roubles onto the black markets, a much-repeated claim would later be used to support a charge of "moral bankruptcy", but neither it nor the charge that Quisling spied for the British has ever been substantiated.

Calling on China to close down this smuggling channel might not be as satisfying as hoping that Beijing will one day turn its back on Pyongyang, but it just might have the advantage of being feasible.

Under the new president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a former general who led the military takeover, Egypt has shut down most of the tunnels beneath its border with Gaza that were both an economic lifeline for the Palestinian coastal enclave as well as a major channel for weapons smuggling.

After a recent report by his channel on the smuggling of lapis lazuli in the northern province of Badakshan, Khenjani thought the Afghan government would launch an investigation into a lawmaker implicated in the illegal trade.

But the revelation of the secret Croatian smuggling channel now shows that the president had found a third approach: an official policy that upheld the embargo, paired with a private one that undercut it.

The real problem with the bear paw trade, the authorities say, is that it creates smuggling channels for two other species — the Amur tiger and the Far Eastern leopard — that are highly endangered.

"Sudanese could get involved in the support chain or smuggling channels from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait". A State Department official said Sudan had "provided critical information that has helped our counter-terrorism efforts around the globe," but noted that there was an inherent conflict in the relationship.

This method is unable to distinguish illicit cigarettes that originate domestically through multiple channels from those smuggled from abroad, and it can only measure the net magnitude of illicit cigarettes present in a country, which would not accurately represent the true level of illicit trade if large, simultaneous flows into and out of a country offset one another.