Text 2 For Mexican drug ring in Hawaii, aloha means goodbye…

A. Operation Pipeline took off on Thanksgiving weekend 2000, and law enforcement officials had already arrested 18 suspects – residents and Mexican nationals in the country illegally – and deported a number of them before the final raid on December 20, 2001.

B. In a dawn raid a few days before Christmas, Customs special agents in Hawaii hit 10 different locations, arresting 16 individuals suspected or smuggling and distributing black tar cocaine, and seizing significant amounts of “dirty money”, guns, and illegal narcotics – 20 pounds of black tar heroin wrapped in electrical tape, and squeezed in among yard plants in ordinary, everyday containers.

C. Operation Pipeline was over. It had been a 13-month investigation, a campaign that involved Customs, the FBI, the National Guard, the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. attorney, and all four county police departments. “We have totally dismantled the organization,” an official from Hawaii Police Department said. And that appears to have been no small feat.

D. About 20 pounds of heroin and the $160,000 seized during the raid represent only part of the $2 million worth of heroin the drug ring distributed during its four years of operation in Hawaii.

E. From 1997 to 2000, police statistics reported a ten-fold increase in the number of people arrested for heroin possession. Law enforcement officials across the Hawaii Islands say that heroin ad crystal methamphetamine have clearly overtaken cocaine and marijuana as the new “drugs of choice,” and that some users combine heroin and “ice” to counter the harsh reentry.

Task 10. What do the following numbers mentioned in the text refer to?

20 $2 mln 13 $160,000 18 10

Task 11. Fill in each space in the following sentences with a verb given in brackets in a suitable form:

1. If you (follow) the customs instructions and if you do not break any law, you (enjoy) your trip abroad.

2. If you (carry) goods for commercial purpose, go to the channel indicated by the red symbol.

3. If you (catch) with goods that are prohibited or restricted, or goods in excess of your Customs allowance, you (risk) heavy fines and possibly a prison sentence.

4. You could pass through the green channel only if you (not have) any goods to declare to Customs.

5. If you (carry) any commercial goods, or goods belonging to your employer, such as laptop computers, you must declare them in the Red Channel.

Task 12. Fill each space in the following text with the suitable verb from the box:

working loaded seized discovered was arrested weighting alerted to appeal

U.S. Customs Service inspectors … at the Otay Mesa port of entry on Friday evening … over three tons of marijuana from a tractor-trailer truck … with a cargo of furniture. The seizure was made at around 6 p.m. on July 19, after inspectors noticed that the driver … extremely nervous. During a secondary examination, a Customs narcotics detector dog … to the trailer and its load of sofas. Inspectors … a false front wall behind which were 2,125 wrapped packages of marijuana … 7,513 pounds and valued at $3,4 million. The 25-year-old driver … by U.S. Customs special agents and subsequently transported to the Metropolitan Correctional Center.

Step 3

Talking points

Task 13. Read the following stories and choose one for commenting on:

Text A

Primorye customs officers detained a Chinese man on Tuesday who tried to smuggle out Soviet coins and medals with cultural value, the customs authorities said, the 24-year-old Yan Khan Si, returning from a business trip, carried three medals with the inscription “Veteran of Labor”, one dedicated to the 70^th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the USSR, a World War Two order and nine Soviet coins dating back to 1922 and 1957. He said that he intended them for hi collection in his Harbin homers.

Text B

The Federal Government is planning to introduce new customs measures for all passengers entering Australia to help identify people who may have been exposed to the SARS virus. As part of the immigration process, plane or sea arrivals already fill out an incoming passenger card (IPC), which requires personal information and details on food, plant or animal matter being brought into Australia. The Government now intends to introduce an additional card, which will contain questions to determine the extent to which a person may have been exposed to SARS, the deadly pneumonia which has already killed more than 500 people worldwide.

Text C

AMMAN – The Customs Department seized an estimated 80, 000 packs of cigarettes at dawn Sunday and foiled an attempt to smuggle 40 kilogrammes of silver into the country two days ago, a senior department official said on Sunday. “The cigarettes, which included both US Marlboro and French Gauloises brands, were confiscated in Karamah near the eastern border with Iraq,” Department Director General Mahmoud Qteishat said. Even though Marlboro and Gauloises are being locally manufactured, attempts to smuggle the brands into the country are in the increase.

Task 14. Say whether the following statements are true or false. Explain your opinion:

1. The Customs agency is planning to introduce new measures only for female passengers entering Australia.

2. The Customs Department in Amman seized 40 kilos of silver.

3. Smuggler of Soviet orders told he had intended them for his relatives.

4. Marlboro and Gauloises are not manufactured in Amman.

5. The smuggler from Harbin tried to smuggle out nine coins three orders and two medals from Russia.

6. Attempts to smuggle cigarettes into Amman are decreasing.

Task 15. Act out a few dialogues between a foreigner and Russian speaking about wages, salaries and overtime payments in the countries you have already learnt about. The following may be of help:

• Excuse me, may I ask you a question?

• I’m afraid I don’t understand …

• What do you mean by saying …

• Could you give me an example?

• It’s quite different from our practice.

• It’s practically the same with us.

Task 16. A snow-ball game. Work in chain. Add your opinion to the previous ones, concerning a topic word:

1. kidnapping;

2. hostage;

3. terrorism;

4. security;

5. prevention.

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Project

Task 17. Sum up all the information of Unit II and be ready to participate in the around-table discussion about Customs and Border Control and the problems of terrorism in English-speaking countries. Compare these issues with Russia. (You can make a presentation to be persuasive).

Unit III

Cargo-processing

Section 1

Tariffs

Step 1

Word bank

1) ad valorem duty - адвалорная пошлина (пошлина, установленная в процентном отношении к заявленной стоимости товара, а не в виде фиксированной суммы за единицу товара в натуральном выражении)

2) applicable - применимый, подходящий, пригодный

3. calculate - вычислять; подсчитывать

4. charge - назначать, запрашивать, просить

5. domestic market - Внутренний (национальный) рынок

6. favour - покровительствовать, оказывать протекцию; поддерживать

7. freight charge - стоимость перевозки грузов

8. fulfill - выполнять; делать, исполнять, осуществлять, совершать

9. hand over - передавать, вручать (товары, документы)

10) individual - частное лицо

11) insurance – страхование

12) legal entity - юридическое лицо

13) rate – ставка

14) settle - приходить к соглашению, улаживать, урегулировать

15) shortage – нехватка, недостаток; дефицит

16) value-added tax - налог на добавленную стоимость.

Task 1. Translate the following words and learn their pronunciation (if you need use the dictionary): foreign, insufficiently, financial, resource, authority, available, ad valorem, calculate, value, distinguish, insurance, freight, exemption.

Task 2. Form adjectives from the following nouns with the help of suffix –al and translate them: addition, finance, politics, universe, convention.

model: education (образование) → educational (образовательный)

Task 3. Form the nouns from the following verbs with the help of suffix -ion and translate them: complete, import, calculate, reduce, connect, declare, prohibit, regulate, restrict.

model: to educate (давать образование) → education (образование)

Task 4. Fill in the chart. Translate these forms.

calculate	calculation	calculating	calculated
distinguish
	payment
		processing
	importation
			charged
fix
		collecting

Task 5. Match up English words (and words combinations) with their Russian equivalents. Make up your own sentences with them.

1) a legal entity	a) налоговая ставка, ставка налогового обложения
2) a value-added tax (VAT)	b) вычислять; подсчитывать
3) a tax rate	c) цена с включением стоимости товара на складе экспортера, страхования на время морской и внутренней водной транспортировки и фрахта, т. е. цена, рассчитанная по условию "стоимость, страхование, фрахт"
4) ad valorem	d) страхование, страховой полис, страховка
5) to calculate	e) налог на добавленную стоимость
6) the CIF value of goods	f) плата за перевозку (за провоз, за фрахт), расходы по перевозке, грузовой тариф
7) insurance	d) юридическое лицо
8) freight charges	e) соответствующий объявленной цене, в соответствии со стоимостью

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Text work

Task 6. Make up sentences from the following words in order to know four functions of import-export rates.

1. the domestic market / must / They / increase / protect / in / foreign competition / their own competitiveness / home producers / in order to / from.

2. They / political interests / there / must / for / is / foreign trade transaction / limit / a shortage / regulate / exporting products / in /and / in / which / this country.

3. They / local consumers / are not / or / must / products / in / insufficiently / supply / which / this country / with / produced / produced.

4. additional financial resources / provide / They / the state budget / with / must.

Task 7. Open the brackets using Passive Voice.

1. Different Customs Duties must (pay) to the Customs Authorities.

2. After payment of all duties and taxes goods (hand) over to legal entities and individuals - their owners.

3. Customs duties of Russian Federation (print) in the Customs Tariff a few years ago.

4. Last month our firm (charge) some duty on the goods it was importing in the country.

5. Freight charges should always (include) in the customs value.

6. I am going to consult with a customs officer about the amount of duties and taxes, which (collect) by the Customs on importation.

7. Next year new tax rates (charge) by the Customs Authorities.

Task 8. Match up the following questions with proper answers