Sentence examples for increase in smuggling from inspiring English sources

It has commissioned numerous studies that claim that standardised packs would see an increase in smuggling – something that could deprive the Exchequer of billions of pounds.

With the river frozen there throughout the winter, the police report an increase in smuggling of illegal immigrants by local runners mostly belonging to the sprawling Akwesasne Mohawk reservation, on islands along the Ontario, Quebec and New York borders.

Still, officials in the Caribbean have raised the alarm at what they believe to be an increase in smuggling by sea after law enforcement agencies increased the use of radar to clamp down on trafficking by plane.

Even as attention has been mostly focused on the large migrant boats pushing toward Italy, Greece has also seen a sharp increase in smuggling boats this year — most of them smaller vessels that have left from the nearby Turkish coasts, often carrying refugees escaping the civil war in Syria.

The increase in smuggling by air may as well stem from the loopholes of the EU-Turkey deal.

Reynolds, the former correctional officer, said the increase in smuggling is a clear sign of the discipline problems inside the prison.

A Tobacco Manufacturers Associationn spokesman said: "We do not believe any plans for plain packaging are based on sound public policy, nor any compelling evidence... Plain packs are likely to lead to further increases in smuggling... and make it easier for counterfeiters to copy".

Despite the recent increase in human smuggling through this area, many more immigrants enter at other border hot spots.

It would mean south Durban becoming a construction site for decades, the devastation of several suburbs and an inevitable increase in crime, smuggling, prostitution and air pollution.

Randall Hoffley, a lawyer for a business group, the Canadian Storage Media Alliance, argues that the main impact of the levy on discs has been an increase in disc smuggling.

Steeply rising oil prices have brought a huge increase in the smuggling of Iraqi oil, the American coordinator of the international fleet that patrols the waters off Iraq told a Security Council committee today.