It is common knowledge that political parties use their patronage of jobs in the customs service to ensure a flow of cash into party coffers.
The beneficiaries of corruption in the anarchic customs service, or in the cigarette-smuggling rackets, or in the energy mafia, or in the empires reaching down into petty officialdom that prey on any sort of business with cash in the till, are all well known.
Their work includes meeting arcane record-keeping requirements on workers' pay and conditions, and getting the right stamps on the right bits of paper for the sleepy customs service.
He left the customs service in 1979, at the age of 58, and entered into a four-decade long late-flowering career as an artist.
The U.S. Customs Service has increased scrutiny of people crossing into the country in response to the latest alert, but officials did not expect significant border delays.
The trouble is that successive governments have paid lip service to the idea of customs reform, but little more.
In one operation, spot-checks by the FDA and the U.S. Customs Service found that 88 percent of drugs imported into the country by mail or courier violated federal safety standards in some way.
Smaller parts of the state apparatus find it hard to assert themselves against some of the big and powerful ones, such as the customs service.
In the southern town of Gjirokaster, old sympathisers of Mr Berisha who lost jobs in the customs service have attacked government buildings.
Other federal agencies such as the U.S. Customs Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation use dogs to find contraband, cocaine or criminals.
The drug began appearing in the United States in the early 1990s, testified John Varrone of the U.S. Customs Service.
The U.S. Customs Service said the added scrutiny is not an overreaction to threats of terrorism, but the result of following procedures during a heightened state of alert.
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"Previously, the community was too Anglicised - clinging to English traditions and customs, " explains Philomena Eaton, convenor of the Calcutta Anglo-Indian Service Society.
To get a better handle on how many U.S. dollars are outside of the U.S., the U.S. Customs Service tracks information on cross-border flows through its Currency and Monetary Instrument Reports (CMIR).
"Everything we have our hands on -- we're going to examine it closely, scrutinize the paperwork and ensure ourselves the product and the truck are in compliance with all laws, " said Customs Service Director of Field Operations Kevin Weeks.
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In the meantime, in the U.S, the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism and the Certified Cargo Screening Program should be expanded to better support the assessments of service providers.
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