Sentence examples for customs violation from inspiring English sources

(Technically, that was a customs violation, but Border Patrol agents nearby tolerate most casual contact).

Unless there's some kind of illegal activity, such as a customs violation, Barrett said, where an illicit fossil ends up depends on the whim of the owners.

But prosecutors said they had issued international warrants for their arrest and hoped they would be extradited to Sweden to face charges of aggravated customs violation on multiple counts.

In the European Union view, Switzerland, which considers smuggling a customs violation but not a crime, has become a safe harbor for smugglers, who hide here while running hugely profitable businesses that siphon billions in tax dollars from other governments.

Although Im-Metal was investigated for its role in allowing the weapons to enter the black market, an initial charge of arms trafficking against the firm was reduced to a customs violation.

In addition, in early August, the Taiwan authorities boarded a North Korean freighter on a technical customs violation and then found and seized barrels of phosphorus pentasulfide, a lethal material that the United States later said could be used to make chemical weapons.

Officials from the Justice and Finance ministries planned to check for immigration and customs violations.

French prosecutors charged him and the French Church of Scientology with fraud and customs violations in 1972.

The situation exploded on June 10, when customs officials seized the Liberty, a sloop owned by John Hancock a leading critic of the Customs Board—for alleged customs violations.

In 1981, it was revealed in internal memos that Bedell may have known about potential customs violations that his company engaged in.

But if you don't get accepted for any reason -- like for criminal convictions or customs violations, for instance -- you won't get that $85 back.