CANBERRA vans old skool wit leer , Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- The amount of cocaine being imported to Australia from Europe is on the rise, authorities have warned.


From January 2017 to August 2017, the Australian Border Force (ABF) made 934 detections of drugs being smuggled into the country, 178 of which took place at Melbourne Airport.


James Watson, ABF Regional Commander vans old skool wit dames , said that cocaine was the most common drug and much of it was coming from Europe.


He said that cocaine had been found by agents at Melbourne Airport hidden in the linings of suitcases, in children's toys, in food products and even internally.


"Since January 2017 we have observed an increase of European citizens attempting to bring cocaine into the country through Australian airports," Watson told Australian media on Thursday.


In July two German nationals were charged after attempting to import approximately 8 kg of cocaine, and in February a 39-year-old Italian national attempted to import 5 kg of cocaine vans old skool wit , both through Melbourne Airport.


"No matter how unique or sophisticated concealment methods are, importers are no match for our highly trained officers and cutting-edge x-ray technology.


"There is a very high probability they will be caught and the penalties are severe."


The German nationals, aged 21 and 22, were charged with importing a commercial quantity of a border-controlled substance which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.


Cocaine worth 870,000 U.S. dollars was found in the suitcase of the Italian woman when x-ray screening of her luggage revealed a plywood false bottom vans old skool bruin , under which were several packages containing cocaine.


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BEIJING, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- China will set up more cross-border e-commerce pilot zones in favor of trade facilitation to boost China's global competitiveness, according to a decision made at a State Council executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday.


The meeting decided to extend the success of cross-border e-commerce pilot zones to more cities with good infrastructure and strong trade and e-commerce development potential across the country. The original initiative was set in motion by the State Council in Hangzhou in 2015 before being expanded to another 12 cities vans old skool zwart dames , including Shanghai, Tianjin and Chongqing, since early 2016.


Some good practices are going national, such as the development of online comprehensive service platforms incorporating custom clearance, logistics vans old skool zwart , tax refund, payment, fund raising and risk control services and offline industrial parks providing whole-industrial-chain services.


"We need to enable the healthy development of cross-border e-commerce and speed up the growth of new engines, making the foreign trade sector more adaptive to new circumstances and better endowed with new cutting edges," Li said. "The prospect of cross-border e-commerce is very bright."