Sentence examples for smuggling rates from inspiring English sources

The Mackinac Center also has data comparing tax and smuggling rates from 2006 to 2011, by which time most states had raised their cigarette taxes in an attempt to collect more revenue.

In the top map, which shows percentages for smuggling rates, positive numbers mean that there was a net inflow of cigarettes (i.e., more cigarettes were smuggled in than out), and negative numbers indicate that there was a net outflow.

For example, it could increase smuggling rates [ 30].

That is the highest smuggling rate in the country.

Raising the price to nearly $8 would almost double the smuggling rate to 39%, about 440 million cigarettes a year, the study says.

The group's Scottish spokeswoman, Fiona Barrett, said: "It's through friends or family that the majority of under-age smokers get their tobacco, so if the government made it a crime for people over 18 to buy tobacco to give to those under 18, while at the same time putting more focus on tackling tobacco smuggling, youth smoking rates would be reduced".

But as people realized they could fill up massive cars with gas for a few dollars, then drive it to the border and sell it for hundreds or thousands even (by using the unofficial exchange rates), smuggling expanded to the point that in 2014 it sucked up an estimated 16% of all the gas produced in Venezuelan refineries and sent over national borders.

"The rate of smuggling is at record levels," a Western diplomat said.

A militarisation of food supply would be consistent with the government's insistence that Venezuela is the victim of an "economic war" waged by Colombian gangs, multinational corporations and financial institutions, who hoard goods, manipulate currency rates and smuggle contraband oil across the border.

Controls that keep prices artificially low in Venezuela, allied with exchange-rate disparities, make smuggling a huge business.

The rap against Jim Harrison's fiction -- before, at any rate, he began smuggling female heroines into his novels ("Dalva") and occasionally affecting a more elegiac tone ("Legends of the Fall") -- was that his male characters tended to be macho lunkheads.