A shopper learned an expensive lesson when her $19,000 alligator-skin handbag was destroyed by customs officials in Australia because it entered the country without the correct import license. The ...

SYDNEY, Australia — Customs officers discovered nearly 10.5 ounces of ecstasy tablets hidden inside a Mr. Potato Head toy sent to Australia from Ireland, the agency said Thursday. Upon opening the ...

Two Australian customs agents and an IT worker have been charged in connection with the country's largest seizure of methamphetamine, which had been smuggled to Melbourne from Bangkok in stereo ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Chinese cotton buyers are buying up Australian product in anticipation the unofficial ban that decimated Australian cotton exports to China could lift amid a diplomatic thaw that has ...

SYDNEY, Australia — What's in a gnome? For surprised Australian customs officials, the answer was snakes and lizards. During a routine check of international mail on June 10, an officer discovered two ...

Australia has a range of remedies available for IP owners who want to stop the trafficking of products that infringe their trade marks and copyright at the border. Melissa Preston and Thai Loi of ...

SYDNEY, May 10 (Reuters) - Australia exported roughly $40 million worth of copper ore and concentrate to China early this year, Australian customs data shows, a sign of industry hope that trade in the ...

International travel has been in the spotlight recently, with nerve-wracking tales of border crackdowns in the US and unexpected detentions. Here's what your passport reveals about you when you're ...

Nov. 2 (UPI) --Trade tensions are reaching a new high between China and Australia as China holds up more than 20 tons of Australian rock lobster at an airport in Shanghai, citing Chinese concerns of ...

Australia has stopped sending rock lobster to its biggest market of China after new Chinese customs inspections were imposed on the live seafood, an industry group and the Australian government said.