Large quantities of waste equipment are still being shipped illegally to countries outside the EU.

In 1984 and 1985, newspaper articles reported that large quantities of weapons were being shipped illegally from the Miami area to the contras.

Increases the penalty for illegally shipping or transporting five or more handguns.

Mr. Richardt and four others are on trial in Luxembourg for illegally shipping the materials.

In the summer of 1997, Mr. Masawi said, he was arrested for illegally shipping gold out of the country.

Italian arms investigators also recently stopped Iraqi government officials from illegally shipping more than 100,000 Russian-made automatic weapons into Iraq.

Rather, they are concerned that large quantities of inexpensive textiles from countries like China may be shipped illegally through Africa to the United States.

In one recent case, beef over 30 months from a plant in Cork was shipped illegally for processing and then resale within the UK.

Teledyne was fined $13 million in 1995 for illegally shipping zirconium to Chile, where it was used to make bombs for Iraq.

Mr. Seidel was accused of illegally shipping almost 200 million West German marks abroad, roughly $100 million.