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Zhou Qicai, a businessman from northeast China, was lugging a suitcase stuffed with 400 copies of a Chinese-language magazine from Hong Kong into China in March when a customs officer inspected his luggage.

In addition, crossing the border on the Murray River was a tiresome experience as each border crossing had customs posts inspecting goods and luggage to ensure all duty was paid and to reduce smuggling, a popular activity.

When custom officers inspected the ship the next morning, they found that it contained 25 pipes of wine, just one fourth of the ship's carrying capacity.

The customs service physically inspects only 2% of containers but claims it uses "sophisticated targeting", based on computer analysis of cargo documents.

Chinese customs officials do inspect or sample products planned for export, but those inspections are not thought to be stringent enough to detect the presence of every chemical or impurity.

Driver identification and cargo information is synchronized centrally, so if anything does not match then customs officials can inspect the cargo.

There's simply no way customs officials can inspect every shipment that comes into or goes out of a busy hub like Miami.

Upon arriving at your destination, allow the customs department to inspect these forms.

He feared his hard drive might be inspected at customs.

At the rear of the plant is a loading dock, where customs officials from Dong Nai inspect and stamp boxes of Fujitsu circuit boards before they leave the factory.

On both the Mauritania/Senegal and Niger/Burkina Faso borders, we saw huge numbers of trucks lined up, waiting to be "inspected" by customs officials — which in Africa often means paying a bribe.