Foreign shipments fell 31percentt in May compared with the same month last year — an improvement on April, but dire nonetheless.
The F.D.A. inspects foreign shipments of food, drugs, cosmetics, medical devices, animal drugs and some electronic devices.
In August, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology submitted a report on its rare-earth industry that includes proposals for further restrictions on exports and an outright ban on foreign shipments of a few key rare-earth metals.
"Some of these folks were a manager down at Eckerd's and decided they could make a little more money selling exotic animals," said Mr. Stinebaugh, one of nine federal inspectors in Miami supervising up to 70 foreign shipments a day, some with thousands of animals.
Still, they pressed: Did he have any ties to any transportation businesses that picked up foreign shipments from Rio's international airport?
If you want proof that advance manifest data on foreign shipments is necessary, you can look back to a little-publicized but frightening close call in 2010, when CPB intercepted a box from Yemen containing an explosive device disguised as a printer cartridge.
Opponents and proponents of foreign arms shipments to the rebels agree on the same set of intractable problems, mainly that the armed opposition is decentralized, with groups of army defectors and volunteers largely fending for themselves to obtain weapons.
In the less devastated areas, the military junta was focused on a constitutional referendum on Saturday intended to cement its power after a campaign of intimidation, even as it continued to restrict foreign aid shipments.
In the last two years, the plant lost two other big jobs: when the postal service stopped offering foreign surface mail shipments, which traveled by ship; and when the handling of the military mail headed to Iraq and Afghanistan was outsourced to a private contractor in Newark.
Radical Islam was virtually unknown in Bosnia until the bloody ethnic wars of the 1990s, when a US-backed operation enabled foreign fighters and shipments of arms to pour into the country from Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.
