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What’s My Duty? iPhone app available
Friday, 21 December 2012, 4:03 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Customs’ What’s My Duty? iPhone app is now available for download. This follows the successful launch of the What’s My Duty? Android app last week. Initial statistics show the Android app is being downloaded and used locally as well as in Australia, ... More >>
Home detention for stun gun lipstick importer
Friday, 21 December 2012, 2:13 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
When Customs officers opened a package of lipstick containers at the International Mail Centre, they found illegal stun guns instead of lipstick. As a result, a 41 year-old sickness beneficiary has been sentenced to four month’s home detention ... More >>
Customs welcomes Court decision
Tuesday, 18 December 2012, 4:44 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
The New Zealand Customs Service today welcomed the judgment by the Court of Appeal that duty is payable on butane blended with petrol. The case involved Gull/Terminals NZ. More >>
Weapons: not for the stocking
Tuesday, 18 December 2012, 11:34 am | New Zealand Customs Service
The New Zealand Customs Service is warning travellers and online shoppers who think flick knives, knuckle dusters, daggers, stun guns, or pepper sprays make good presents, to be aware they are purchasing prohibited or restricted items that will not make ... More >>
What’s My Duty? estimator now online
Friday, 2 November 2012, 3:50 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
MEDIA RELEASE 2 November 2012 What’s My Duty? estimator now online The New Zealand Customs Service has launched What’s My Duty?, an import duty estimator to help people buying goods online know how much duty and GST they may be liable for. It’s ... More >>
Customs confident in Secure Export Scheme
Wednesday, 31 October 2012, 12:14 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
MEDIA RELEASE 31 October 2012 Customs confident in Secure Export Scheme Customs is aware of Algerian media reports that a significant quantity of an illegal drug – either cocaine or heroin - has been found in a shipment of milk powder in Algeria. ... More >>
Concerted efforts catch card skimmers at the border
Thursday, 25 October 2012, 5:14 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
The latest prison term for attempting to smuggle illegal card skimming equipment into New Zealand sends a clear message to fraudsters that strong measures are in place to disrupt potential crime at the border and such activity will not be tolerated. More >>
"P" Interceptions On The Decline
Wednesday, 24 October 2012, 11:00 am | New Zealand Customs Service
“P” Interceptions On The Decline Customs’ quarterly drug statistics show a decline in interceptions of precursors used to manufacture methamphetamine or “P”. Surveys indicate that availability of methamphetamine is being constrained which ... More >>
Record week for Customs’ SmartGate
Thursday, 30 August 2012, 1:37 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Last week, more than 55,500 travellers to and from New Zealand took advantage of SmartGate to cross our borders — the highest week on record for use of Customs’ biometric self-processing system. SmartGate was used by 69 percent of eligible arriving ... More >>
WCO visit highlights Customs’ international reputation
Friday, 24 August 2012, 3:17 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
This week’s visit by the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO) highlights New Zealand’s strong reputation for border management says Carolyn Tremain, Comptroller of Customs. More >>
Drug disposal highlights a successful six months
Thursday, 19 July 2012, 2:50 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
MEDIA RELEASE 19 July 2012 Drug disposal highlights a successful six months Two hundred and twenty kilograms of illegal drugs were destroyed yesterday in a Customs drug disposal operation. ContacNT made up the bulk of the drugs destroyed. Other ... More >>
Card skimmer jailed
Monday, 16 July 2012, 9:48 am | New Zealand Customs Service
16 July 2012 Card skimmer jailed A 48 year old Polish man was sentenced in the Manukau District Court last Thursday to three months imprisonment for smuggling bank card skimming equipment into New Zealand. Jaroslaw Pilat arrived at Auckland International ... More >>
Nigerian scammers target New Zealand online job seekers
Monday, 2 July 2012, 12:56 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Customs is warning job seekers to be aware of a Nigerian scam targeting New Zealanders applying for jobs online. This follows the interception of counterfeit bank cheques destined for a New Zealand “Agent” unwittingly recruited through their response ... More >>
Tobacco grower found guilty
Monday, 11 June 2012, 5:27 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A 60 year-old Motueka man was sentenced and fined $6,000 at the Auckland District Court today relating to the unlawful manufacture of tobacco. More >>
Customs most attractive public service employer
Friday, 4 May 2012, 5:24 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Customs has been voted New Zealand’s Most Attractive Employer for the public sector in the Randstad awards. The organisation was also named the third most attractive company to work for in the overall awards category. More >>
Customs arrests man for importing cocaine
Wednesday, 15 February 2012, 12:22 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A United States national was arrested at Auckland International Airport last week after liquid cocaine was found concealed in bottles inside his luggage. More >>
Customs vessel in the right place at the right time
Friday, 4 November 2011, 12:32 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Two lucky fishermen who were left clinging to a chilly bin after their dinghy capsized were rescued by the New Zealand Customs vessel Hawk yesterday evening. More >>
Customs success in the fight against organised crime
Wednesday, 2 November 2011, 1:15 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A Hong Kong man whose only reason for coming to New Zealand was to facilitate the importation of drugs, was sentenced yesterday to eight and a half years imprisonment for the importation and possession for supply of the Class A Drug, methamphetamine. More >>
Joint Border Management System Contract Signed
Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 3:15 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A joint border management system designed to improve border processing for NZ traders and travellers, and to make border agencies more efficient, will be the result of a contract signed today by NZ Customs and IT provider, IBM. More >>
Drug swallower caught at the border - 10th in 18 months
Tuesday, 14 June 2011, 5:47 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Internal smuggling is a polite name for it – “swallowers” is more descriptive. In the last 18-months New Zealand Customs has caught ten of these desperate drug ‘mules’ trying to bring a range of narcotics into the country, inside themselves. More >>
