Clean-ups in the tax and customs authorities have impressed some businessmen, while vexing others who say procedures are now gummed up.

ECONOMIST: Banyan

The sandwiches were turned over to authorities in the US Customs and Border Protection Service.

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We'll want the information that they pull in, but we'll want this new department to pull in information from the INS, from Customs, from the Coast Guard, from the drug enforcement authorities, from the state and local police.

CNN: Ridge: New department ready for new threats

When customs authorities in Brussels confiscated the biggest ever seizure of illegal medicines in Europe last year, it was anti-malaria pills headed for Africa that they intercepted, rather than lifestyle drugs.

CNN: Fighting the growing menace of fake drugs

"To get behind an international conspiracy, you need the cooperative efforts of law enforcement, world customs organizations, Interpol and national authorities, " Kubic told CNN.

CNN: Fighting the growing menace of fake drugs

American agents notified Mexican authorities to search their side of the border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement last December.

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"Just two weeks before we launched the airline in March, we were advised by the French authorities that there would be a short delay of a couple of weeks before a customs and immigration port of entry was in place at Paris Pontoise, " he said.

BBC: Let-410 aircraft