Belarus remains active contraband cigarettes
More than 1,200,000 packs of illegal cigarettes have been seized at the border with Belarus since the beginning of 2021. Experts noted that almost half of illegal cigarettes are already supplied to Belarus.
This was discussed at the “Forum on Combating Illegal Trade: North-West”.
The proceeds of smugglers from one truck of “black” cigarettes, according to various expert estimates, are about $ 1 million.
According to Kirill Rogacheva, Deputy Head of the Customs Control Service after the release of goods by the North-West Customs Administration, the customs control units after the release of goods revealed 20% more tobacco products originating from the Republic of Belarus compared to the previous year. “The number of detections of illegally moved tobacco products is growing both at the border of the Republic of Belarus and when controlling the turnover of tobacco products in the domestic market of the Northwestern Federal District,” Rogachev said.
The turnover of counterfeit and contraband tobacco products hits the state budget. “According to experts, the damage from the shortfall in excise taxes caused by the illegal market to the federal budget may amount to 80-100 billion rubles a year,” he said. Vladislav Zaslavsky, Deputy Director of the Department for the Digital Labeling of Goods and Legalization of Products Turnover of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia.
Despite the obvious difficulties, active work is underway to whitewash the market: according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, in the first half of 2021, 15 million cigarettes were seized in the Northwestern Federal District, and 160 million in Russia as a whole. illegal points per 100 legal ones.
Counteract the development of the shadow tobacco market in the Russian Federation, including: a digital labeling system and a single minimum price mechanism.
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