1.   Authorities rarely license Hong Kong people to drive their private cars across the border because of rampant smuggling.

2.   But Agriculture Minister Joe Walsh said rampant animal smuggling from Northern Ireland continued to pose a threat.

3.   Among the challenges the country faces are drug trade and rampant smuggling, devastated infrastructures and a food crisis exacerbated by three years of drought.

4.   And rampant smuggling frightens the government, threatening its survival by starving the treasury of taxes.

5.   Chinese President Jiang Zemin has ordered the military to shut down its business as part of a government campaign to end rampant smuggling, state media reported Wednesday.

6.   China launched a crackdown last July on rampant smuggling of goods ranging from oil and industrial raw materials to microwave ovens and other consumer goods.

7.   Chinese authorities are claiming substantial progress in a campaign to curb rampant smuggling, although problems in enforcement persist, the official newspaper China Daily reported Tuesday.

8.   Facing increased European pressure, Turkish authorities moved to clamp down on rampant human smuggling.

9.   Investigators busted up the ring last year after Chinese leaders declared a nationwide crackdown against smuggling so rampant it was eroding government revenues and distorting markets.

10.   The ban also resulted in rampant smuggling of raw rattan to Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines.