Sentence examples for customs checks from inspiring English sources

Members travel like diplomats, avoiding customs checks and roaring through cities in motorcades with police escorts.

Boat-to-boat transfers create confusion; customs checks are often lax.

Border controls and customs checks could follow, bad for people and trade.

Mr. Ahmed, the British health official, said circuitous routes were used to avoid customs checks.

All of them ran the risk of encountering spot customs checks by the East German border guards.

"What you would actually have to do is end up with having border controls and customs checks".

After tea, we crossed the road for the customs check.

Gurlitt first sparked official suspicion during a routine customs check as he traveled by train from Zürich to Munich on Sept. 22, 2010.

Officials were unaware of their son's huge collection until a chance customs check three years ago led them to the Munich apartment.

Four years later, four competitors were sent home after a routine customs check found a Chinese swimmer was carrying large amounts of banned growth hormones as she arrived at Perth for the World Championships.

"Our passenger traffic through here increased 22percentt in 2003, to around 175,000," Vladimir A. Pirogov, stationmaster at the nearby rail crossing of Gradekovo, said as hundreds of Russian and Chinese passengers from Harbin passed through a customs check below his office, dragging their allotted 110 pounds of duty-free goods.