Sentence examples for customs spokesman from inspiring English sources

Anthony Bucci, a customs spokesman, said officials concluded that consolidating operations would "provide more expeditious processing of containers requiring examination".

"This system is not rife with errors," said Dennis Shimkoski, a customs spokesman.

However, customs spokesman Huang Songping warned at a news conference that China's trade faced "many challenges" in 2016 due to weak external demand, Reuters reported.

"We thought it was possible the football player may have been taking an excessive amount of money out of the country," said a customs spokesman.

Gold weighing 400g (14oz), worth about 2m Sri Lankan rupees (£9,400), was found hidden inside the suspect's rectal cavity, a customs spokesman told the BBC.

It means that at Kennedy and Newark International Airports, and at the seaport in Elizabeth, N.J., federal inspectors began "more intensive examinations of passengers, of freight and of mail," after Sept. 11, said James F. Michie, a customs spokesman.

The Border Patrol, for example, has grown from 9,000 agents in 2001 to nearly 20,000.All that said, customs spokesmen admit that the rise is worrying.

But a customs department spokesman said authorities — who raid markets, inspect antiques shops and search vehicles entering from Syria — have made arrests mostly in small-scale smuggling attempts.

"Neither Baitullah Mehsud nor any of his associates were involved in the assassination of Benazir, because raising your hand against women is against our tribal values and customs," the spokesman, Maulavi Omar, said in a telephone call from the tribal region of South Waziristan.

As is its custom, a spokesman for the I.R.S. declined to comment.

As is its custom, a spokesman for the accounting firm declined to characterize the results of the audit, which is not yet public.