CPTPP – Entry into Force for other parties
The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) will enter into force for Malaysia on 29 November 2022. CPTPP entered into force for Australia,…
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The Weird and Wonderful Items You Didn’t Realise Are Being Regularly Shipped
In recent months, as consumers refreshed tracking numbers for their online shopping purchases and waited for supermarket shelves to restock amid chronic supply chain congestion,…
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ATO assistance during COVID-19
The Deputy Comptroller General (DCG), Bradley Armstrong , who heads the ABF Customs Group, which has been given the responsibility of taking the deferral of…
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ABF Detector Dog Program
We’re sharing the details of an amazing program that allows you to be come a foster carer for an Australian Border Force (Detector dog) puppy….
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Record $148 million heroin bust made at UK port
Does container shipping have a drug problem? After a string of busts in the U.S. in recent months, attention has now switched to the U.K.,…
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ABF Examinations
We’ve highlighted the need for the Australian Border Force (ABF) to conduct holds on imported containers into Australia previously. This is necessary and integral, and…
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Clothing used to conceal half a tonne of ‘ice’ in container
Four men have been charged and methylamphetamine (ice) with a street value of almost $400m has been seized after a joint investigation involving New South…
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ABF tightens the screws on aluminum dumping
The Australian Border Force (ABF) has issued duty demands of more than $15 million to combat duty evasion on aluminum from China. The ABF announced…
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Biggest ever onshore ice seizure in Australia
Australian authorities have made the biggest ever onshore seizure of the drug ice, equivalent to almost 16 million drug deals. Australian Border Force (ABF) officers…
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1.3 tonne ephedrine seizure; four arrests in Melbourne
A joint multi-national investigation into an organised crime syndicate has resulted in the arrest of four men and the seizure of 1.3 tonnes of the…
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