Sentences with phrase «of tobacco smuggled»

However, others - including HM Customs - warn that there is a bigger problem in respect of tobacco smuggled from outside the EU, which has therefore not been subject to any duty at all and which is frequently found to be counterfeit.

This is good considering the seriousness of the tobacco smuggling problem, says McRobert, but «it seems questionable that 10 new officers will do much.

Not exact matches

I went to the library, carefully smuggling my bottle of pickled jalapeños past the guards, and discovered the worst: chiles, as members of the family Solanaceae, were brother plants to both tobacco and tomatoes.

It explores topical health issues too: the growing involvement of the industry in promoting e-cigarettes for instance, or its complicity in tobacco smuggling.

Smuggling was so rife during the 18th Century that by 1815, duty stood at 400 per cent of the actual value of tobacco.

The massive sums to be made in tobacco smuggling have led to its development into a worldwide trade involving the illegal movement of containers of millions of cigarettes.

In contrast, our party is committed to exploring new ways to combat tobacco smuggling and has convened a cross-departmental group of Shadow Ministers for that purpose.

Thanks to excessive duty on tobacco, smuggling is already a serious problem that costs the Treasury billions of pounds each year, money that the country can ill afford to lose.

No other tobacco executives were charged criminally and ultimately in 2008, Imperial Tobacco Canada and Rothmans Benson & Hedges collectively agreed to pay $ 1.15 billion in criminal and civil fines relating to allegations of smuggling between 1991 and 1996.

This means that tobacco and alcohol with a duty and VAT total of # 3.7 bn have been smuggled into the country at a time where (for practical purposes) unlimited quantities of duty - paid product can be imported.

Imperial Tobacco had already entered into a comprehensive release executed between it, the government of Canada and the provinces, which included language relating to lost taxes arising from Imperial Tobacco's alleged role in tobacco smuggling.

Media outlet Hangyoreh quotes a KCC official as saying, «We plan to continue to tighten the net on criminals using cryptocurrencies to fund the smuggling of tobacco, drugs and other illegal goods.»