Sentence examples for customs workers from inspiring English sources

But customs workers videotaped them stuffing merchandise into their jacket pockets, Mr. Gil Díaz, the finance minister, said.

In an indication of Brazil's strengthening economy, the country registered a trade surplus of $183 million in April despite a strike of customs workers that virtually paralyzed commerce at the beginning of the month.

The FBI is testing a substance in a package at John F Kennedy International Airport in "an abundance of caution" after two customs workers reported they felt ill after opening it Sunday.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Janet Napolitano, the United States homeland security secretary, said Saturday that her department planned to triple the number of agents in Afghanistan to train border and customs workers — an effort that is partly aimed at curbing the smuggling of cash out of the country.

To be sure, security at this port -- the nation's ninth biggest by dollar volume -- has been stepped up, some costly overtime work is still required, customers are extra vigilant about the timeliness of shipments, and the strain of more than three weeks of 12- and 13-hour shifts for customs workers still lingers.

Inside the warehouse, located in a U.S. foreign trade zone under the ostensible eye of U.S. Customs, workers maniacally rip cellophane off the cartons and slap state tobacco tax stamps and Surgeon General warnings on each pack before resealing the cartons for final shipment.

At twenty, Heyward, who had been weakened by a bout of polio at eighteen, got a job as a customs worker among black stevedores on the Charleston waterfront and was awed by their strength.

Russell Rogers, the furloughed customs worker from West Chester, Pa., is sitting in his 2000 Toyota Echo in a church parking lot.

In customs, airport workers told her, "Now you are important".

He has had to adjust to local customs; his workers tend to disappear during hunting and maple syrup seasons.

You are then given three estimates from custom mill workers to make and install this layout.