"We believe that far more should be done to keep smuggled goods out of the UK, " they said.
The Terminal Manager at Lagos's Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Olutayo Oginnie, said some of the abandoned planes were seized for transporting smuggled goods.
Hamstrung by their own restrictions which prevent them buying smuggled goods, the UN and other international agencies have written themselves out of the repair effort.
Xu smuggled goods and trans-shipped them from China into another country, shielding them from customs investigations by packing them into drums of chemicals, and then shipping to various ports throughout Europe.
There were some clever costumes (furs, black-and-white polka-dot flamenco dresses, natty gangster suits for the smugglers) and ideas (the smuggled "goods" were people).
Many goods are smuggled from Egypt through a network of underground tunnels into Gaza.
Finished goods are ultimately smuggled into the United States in various ways which are difficult to detect.
Goods meant for Afghanistan are often smuggled back to Pakistan and sold in local markets.
Others buy goods in neighbouring countries where traders have smuggled them in from Congo and have arranged dodgy paperwork to make the deals look legal.
Warming ties with Baghdad in the past few years have put the country on a vital drip feed, as oil smuggled out of Iraq has been exchanged for Syrian consumer goods.
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"About 80% of the goods, in my estimate, that come under the trade agreement are smuggled back through Pakistan's large porous border, " he said.
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