Opening it up would let poor border towns revert from their current concentration on smuggling to more legitimate trade.
"Current knowledge on firearms smuggling in Europe remains patchy, gleaned from specific arrests and seizures, leading to wildly different estimates of the scale of the problem.
The Bedouin played inadvertent godfathers to the current insurgency through their smuggling tunnels to Gaza, though, linking Palestinian militants who crossed the border looking for freedom or refuge to Egyptian radicals hiding out in the area who they would later fund and train.
A 481-foot tunnel under the current "wall," used to smuggle drugs to the West, was discovered not long ago.
The current case involves a huge smuggling ring that centered on the Yuanhua Corporation in Xiamen, which paid local officials millions of dollars in bribes to ease the entry of its smuggled goods, including fuel oil, cars and cigarettes.
Re "Chinese Search for Infant Formula Goes Global" (front page, July 26), about the current phenomenon of infant formula "smuggling" by Chinese parents worried about the safety of domestic formula: There is a far safer, healthier and low-cost option requiring nothing other than mother and child — breast-feeding.
With the ticket-fixing indictments on Friday, and the announcement three days earlier of the charges accusing eight current and former officers of smuggling M-16 assault rifles, Commissioner Kelly twice found himself standing at news conferences talking about the arrests of officers.
With Lebanon's current government unable to control arms smuggling, radical Sunni gangs have proliferated, many with links to Syrian rebels.
"If it were to stop purchasing large amounts of diamonds from countries with a negligible production base, much could be done to end the current high levels of theft and smuggling," the report says.
How could you prove that any of these treasures were smuggled out during the current conflict?
