1.   Although far less publicized than the Mexican border drug trade, smuggling is a problem all along the U.S.-Canada boundary.

2.   Before the war, much of southeastern Turkey lived from border trade with Iraq.

3.   But unlike Kashgar and Urumqi, it has not benefited from border trade with Pakistan and the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union.

4.   Earlier this month, a Canadian official arrived in Skopje to take up a job monitoring the border trade.

5.   Logan said drug arrests and seizures are on the rise, but that smugglers can evade detection due to the high volume of border trade and traffic.

6.   So far, the promise of border trade has passed Presidio without stopping.

7.   The border trade became possible only after the Soviet Union, in its decline, relaxed its stern hold over this weak country.

8.   The Iraqi delegate to the United Nations, Nizar Hamdoon, dismissed the report, saying that any border trade with Iraq or Turkey had been minimal.

9.   The story was much the same from others who depend on border trade for their living.

10.   Yet it is hardly a dangerous place, with border trade, economic investment and Silk Road tourism all thriving.