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Although it is true that the incentive for smuggling is the avoidance of taxes, it is not true that only tax levels can explain the causes of smuggling.
"If traffickers think they can smuggle people in with impunity, that's an incentive for smuggling to increase," said Christopher Chope, a Conservative MP and rapporteur for the Council of Europe's committee on migration.
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Initially, the decreasing domestic production of cheaper cigarettes in combination with an increasing demand for imported brand cigarettes created an incentive for illegally smuggled and counterfeit foreign tobacco products.
The border area is notorious for smuggling.
Close to the border with Venezuela, it is well-sited for smuggling arms and supplies.
Another problematic use of drone tech that has emerged is for smuggling contraband over prison walls.
Sentencing set for July; currently being held for smuggling a computer into a halfway house.
At worst they establish a commercial presence in countries as cover for smuggling[ 46, 47] or even build commercial links with smugglers [ 48- 50].
Harmonising towards high taxes would not only discourage people from taking up the habit and help to pay for anti-smoking initiatives, public-health experts argue, but also reduce the incentive to smuggle cigarettes from low-tax to high-tax regimes.
It would also increase the incentives for staff to smuggle drugs.
While in the short term we can best assist the Egyptians with technical know-how and training, long term counter smuggling success will depend on reducing the financial incentives to smuggling by providing the Sinai Bedouin with legitimate economic opportunities and by regularly opening the Gaza borders to trade, thereby reducing economic incentives to smuggle.
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