by AdrianaAMLP | Jan 28, 2026
Total trade value gaps reached an estimated $152.9 billion in 2022, with South Africa accounting for $478 billion cumulatively over the decade, followed by Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, and Kenya, while smaller economies like Gambia face the highest relative...
by AdrianaAMLP | Dec 9, 2025
The 2025 OECD report finds that gold concentrates — often exported as raw ore or “precious-metals concentrate” under HS code 261690 — present attractive opportunities for trade-based money laundering and gold laundering because they are seldom tracked, easily...
by AdrianaAMLP | Dec 8, 2025
CBSA’s investigation found that between 2017 and 2022 the individual exported more than 3,700 vehicles without the required reporting under the Customs Act, allowing the shipments to evade regulatory scrutiny and posing significant risks to supply-chain integrity and...
by AdrianaAMLP | Nov 8, 2022
This research notes that the China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) transport projects have significantly increased trade within the corridor economies as well as the rest of the world. This has heightened the proliferation of counterfeit and illicit goods disguised...
by AdrianaAMLP | Oct 24, 2021
JMLSG publishes a revised sectoral piece in Part II of its Guidance – Sector 15 (Trade Finance). Firms addressing the money laundering/terrorist financing risks in trade finance should also have regard to the guidance in Sector 16: Correspondent...
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