A Canadian daily reports that despite U.N. sanctions condemning North Korea’s nuclear test, trade along the Chinese-North Korean border is still flourishing.

The Globe and Mail said that sanctions have had no effect on cross-border trade between the two countries.

A correspondent for the daily in Dandong, China quoted a local merchant, who was identified only as Li, as saying that there were as many trucks loaded with goods to North Korea as there had been before the world body imposed the sanctions.

He was confident he could keep selling two- to three-million dollars worth of goods a year to North Korea.

When asked about the ban on luxury goods, another Chinese exporter said it was hard to define what luxury goods were, adding that nobody got caught carrying such goods in an inspection.