In 1997 it hired Britain's Crown Agents to run the customs service for three years.
With that in mind, the Customs Service says it's working to streamline the process while still ensuring security.
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In the southern town of Gjirokaster, old sympathisers of Mr Berisha who lost jobs in the customs service have attacked government buildings.
It identified four areas as a priority for a clean-up: the health insurance fund, the customs service, the prosecutor's office and the judiciary.
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.
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.
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.
SRI's director, had increased tax collection by 42% between 2000 and 2001, and the government hoped she could do the same for the customs service.
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The new department would oversee functions now dispersed among more than two dozen agencies, including the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Customs Service and the Border Patrol.
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.
But the latest move by the Russian customs service is making even hardened expatriates blench.
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.
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 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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The Coast Guard, Customs Service, Secret Service and Federal Emergency Management Agency would be among the agencies folded into the new department.
Among the agencies represented were the FBI, Secret Service, Federal Aviation Administration, Customs Service, Coast Guard, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
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.
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.
The trouble is that successive governments have paid lip service to the idea of customs reform, but little more.
The sandwiches were turned over to authorities in the US Customs and Border Protection Service.
One container held 2, 000 AK-47 assault rifles made in China, according to the U.S. Customs Service.
The drug began appearing in the United States in the early 1990s, testified John Varrone of the U.S. Customs Service.
"Historically, foreign wine has had to face a strong domestic-wine lobby, " says Pat Jones, an agent with the U.S. Customs Service.
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).
In the print-shop case, the Westminster police and the U.S. Customs Service arrested 15 men and seized an industrial printing press, a shrink-wrap machine and crate upon crate of illegitimate Windows 95 documentation.
Six Australian Customs and Border Protection Service Marine Enforcement Officers serving aboard the Australian Customs and Border Protection Vessel Triton, and 12 members of the Australian Defence Force serving on the patrol boat HMAS Pirie, nominated by Australia, for rescuing 41 survivors from a small wooden vessel which had smashed against rocks off Christmas Island, in December 2010, with an estimated 70 to 100 persons on board.
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U.S. Customs Service spokesman Jim Michie said the agency had no data on the delay times at various crossings.
The Justice Department is investigating whether Panalpina bribed customs officials in Nigeria and other countries and has requested documents from the oil service companies and Royal Dutch Shell, according to securities filings.
My brother (who had inherited the farm according to our customs) had taken a loan with a local bank which he had been unable to service, so the bank opted to auction the farm which my brother had tendered as collateral.
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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