contraband trade

But we have no basis to believe that any of our customers are engaged in the contraband trade."

This was a center of the contraband trade.

Considerable contraband trade originated from bases around the island.

Still others include those involved in contraband trade and even drug trafficking and money laundering.

When they left a month later, they reported a severe lack of written procedures and a rampant contraband trade.

This growth was not experienced evenly, and the monopoly hurt small farmers, who continued to sell most of their product in the contraband trade.

About 1720 the contraband trade greatly increased.

British and Portuguese merchants broke this monopsony by resorting to contraband trade.

Indeed,' he grinned broadly, 'it would upset the contraband trade for a long time, too, which is one of the reasons why we are helping you.

No coast could serve the "free traders" better than the shores of Kirkcudbright, and the contraband trade flourished until the 19th century.

Its principal object was to prevent the search of the colony ships which carried on a contraband trade with the Spanish Main.

It's been suspected Bass may also have planned to engage in contraband trade in Chile.

After making his report Stirling went back to patrolling the Caribbean with orders to prevent piracy and the contraband trade.

- actively engaged in contraband trade.'

But the large contraband trade has contributed to the country's "disindustrialization," a study by the Bogota economic research group Fedesarrollo, has found.

The priests also broke ethical and religious codes, appropriated the major part of the missions' income and encouraged contraband trade with the Portuguese.

As such, he wrote regular reports to the British government, including reports on the Swedish contraband trade with France during the revolutionary wars.

Most of the contraband trade consisted of cocoa with neighboring island Curaçao, colonized by the Dutch.

As might be expected, that whopping disparity has generated a booming contraband trade in gasoline in this remote and underpopulated corner of the Amazon.

His contraband trade became a way of life on the frontier and borders of Spanish Texas and French Louisiana.

The triple border region, where Paraguay touches both Argentina and Brazil, has long been associated with drug-smuggling and other contraband trade.

The contraband trade that was the lifeblood of the Habsburg empire declined in proportion to registered shipping (a shipping registry having been established in 1735).

Contraband trade became the dominant economic force on the border between the two countries, with Puerto Presidente Stroessner serving as the hub of such smuggling activities.

The adventurous contraband trade which prevails throughout these mountain regions, and along the maritime borders of Andalusia, is doubtless at the bottom of this galliard character.

But because the port was ideal for trade, frustrated merchants turned to smuggling, and contraband trade with Portuguese Brazil and nonpeninsular European powers flourished.