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New Zealand Customs Service

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The New Zealand Customs Service (Customs) is the government agency with the job of protecting the community from potential risks arising from international trade and travel, while facilitating the legitimate movement of people and goods across the border. Our Maori name - Te Mana Arai o Aotearoa - translates as the authority that screens and protects New Zealand. 

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Export 10 Feb 2010
CMP Canterbury join Customs' Secure Exports Scheme

CHRISTCHURCH — Today CMP Canterbury, one of New Zealand’s biggest meat exporters, partnered with the New Zealand Customs Service in Customs’ Secure Exports Scheme (SES), ensuring CMP experience speedier clearance times and greater trade facilitation.

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News 9 Sep 2008
WMD Exercise to be held in Auckland in September

In September New Zealand will host ‘Exercise Maru’ in Auckland which will test New Zealand's ability to halt a shipment concealing materials used to make weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

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Crime 5 Sep 2008
Enough Pseudoephredrine for $20 million of P

New Zealand Customs Service officers have seized 80-kilos of Contac NT (pseudoephedrine), enough to produce as much as 24-kilos of Methamphetamine (P) with a street value of around $20 million.

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Crime 25 Jul 2008
Email Scam warning

New Zealand Customs Service is aware of an email scam where members of the public are being informed that a parcel is awaiting Customs clearance.

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Crime 27 Jun 2008
Smugglers getting more creative

Importations of drugs are being concealed by increasingly sophisticated methods in everyday items in attempts to get them across the border.

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Crime 26 Jun 2008
$25 Million worth of drugs off the streets

In the four years since New Zealand Customs Service Drug Detector dogs have been trained to detect pseudoephedrine, they have found over 100kg.

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Crime 25 Jun 2008
Customs seize $1.6 Million of Ice

New Zealand Customs Service officers seized two packages containing 14.9kg of ephedrine with a street value of approximately $1.6 million dollars earlier this month.

Two plastic bags of ephedrine concealed within food packaging

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Internet 25 Jun 2008
Online predators use internet games to lure young

A 12-year-old New Zealand girl was recently persuaded to send 300 sexually explicit photos of herself over the internet in exchange for points on a gaming site.

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News 30 Jan 2008
Customs seize around $1 million of Crystal Meth

AUCKLAND — New Zealand Customs Service officers have seized approximately one kilo of Ice (crystal methamphetamine) at Auckland airport.

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Crime 10 Dec 2007
Drug making chemicals found hidden in bikes

AUCKLAND — In a joint agency operation involving New Zealand Customs Service and Auckland Metro Crime and Operations Support (AMCOS), officers have seized 44.8kg of ContacNT (a precursor for the manufacture of methamphetamine) in a shipment of 80 bicycles.

Bikes full of precursers

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