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  2. Smuggling

Smuggling

  • Running contraband

Nature

Smuggling is the clandestine movement of commodities or persons across borders including: false identification of products, their contents, their country of origin or other information. Its objectives may be financial (to avoid duties or import or export restrictions); criminal; political; or humane. In other words, it's the unlawful introduction or removal into or from a country or place of any merchandise or person.

Counter-claim

Smuggling is a serious global problem faced by many industries including alcohol, electronic goods, cars and tobacco. It is caused by high tax levels, different levels of tax on two sides of a border and the imposition of national trade barriers to legal imports.

Broader

Narrower

Drug smuggling
Presentable

Strategy

Smuggling
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #12: Responsible Consumption and ProductionSustainable Development Goal #17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(D) Detailed problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Recreation » Athletics
  • Societal problems » Crime
  • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    J3659
    DOCID
    12036590
    D7NID
    137626
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020