7 sentences with “smuggling”

The Revenue Act also gave the Customs Board greater powers to counter smuggling.

Many more slaves arrived illegally from Cuba; indeed, the Cubans relied on slave smuggling to prop up their finances.

While slave smuggling continued, the end of the international slave trade meant that domestic slaves were in high demand.

Grenville designed this measure to address the problem of rampant colonial smuggling with the French sugar islands in the West Indies.

Enforcement of customs laws had been based in Britain, but the rules were difficult to enforce over such a distance and smuggling was rampant.

Andros also undertook to enforce the Navigation Acts, a measure that threatened to disrupt the region's trade, which relied heavily on smuggling.

But far from buckling under the pressure of the Continental System, Britain was getting richer, seizing the remnants of the French Empire in the Caribbean and smuggling cheap but high-quality manufactured goods to Europe.