Sweden has bilateral customs agreements with the US, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, France, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Spain, Poland, Russia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Hungary. Similar agreements negotiated in 1995 with Latvia, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia were ratified and came into force in 1996. Sweden cooperates with the US under a 1984 extradition treaty. Law Enforcement Efforts. From January through November, police and customs made 9,781 individual seizures, compared to 11,317 seizures in all of 1995.
Corruption is very rare and when discovered is consistently punished.
No illicit drugs are known to be cultivated or produced in significant amounts in Sweden. One amphetamine lab was seized and destroyed in 1996. Police attribute this to tight controls on precursor chemicals and to a relatively low street price for amphetamine and other drugs. It is more profitable for criminals to smuggle drugs into Sweden than to produce them in Sweden in clandestine labs. The drugs enter the country among commercial goods, over land, by mail, by air and by ferry.