Tobacco-product tax increases in Iran have performed well in cutting observable cigarette sales, but these have been replaced in part at least by smuggled products.Read More
The UAE is preparing to introduce a requirement that all cigarette packs sold within its borders are marked so that they can be tracked. Read More
China is to be asked to crack down on the export to the Philippines of cigarette-making machinery that is seen as fueling the trade in fake cigarettes.Read More
Tobacco excise reforms being enacted by the Government of Papua New Guinea are aimed at cracking down on the illegal trade in tobacco products and providing sustainable revenues.Read More
The EU Commission has followed developments at a free zone in Montenegro and has been kept informed by the Montenegrin Customs of measures to strengthen inspections there.Read More
The illegal trade in cigarettes has increased in the countries of the Gulf Co-operation Council since the imposition there of excise tax.Read More
Ten months after a tobacco-products tracking-and-tracing system was due to be introduced in Pakistan, the system’s tender process is being called into question. Read More
An illegal-trade conference in Abu Dhabi was told that the United Arab Emirates had become the fastest-growing channel for illicit cigarettes entering Russia.Read More
Given that we have only about 12 years to avoid triggering an environmental catastrophe, the question arises as to whether the EU's track and trace system will ever see the light of day.Read More
A member of the EU Parliament has suggested that cigarette smuggling into a member state of the EU should be treated as an EU problem rather than a member-state problem.Read More
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