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Case Study 2

This document discusses factors related to eradicating smuggling in the Philippines. Smuggling is defined as the illegal import or export of goods to avoid customs duties or taxes. It undermines domestic markets and tax revenue. To reduce smuggling, the document recommends increasing security at ports, enhancing monitoring of ships and cargo, and amending customs laws. Stricter law enforcement can help curb smuggling while still allowing for legal international trade that benefits the economy. The overall aim is to strengthen border security and enforcement of trade restrictions to eliminate illegal smuggling activities in the Philippines.

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Case Study 2

This document discusses factors related to eradicating smuggling in the Philippines. Smuggling is defined as the illegal import or export of goods to avoid customs duties or taxes. It undermines domestic markets and tax revenue. To reduce smuggling, the document recommends increasing security at ports, enhancing monitoring of ships and cargo, and amending customs laws. Stricter law enforcement can help curb smuggling while still allowing for legal international trade that benefits the economy. The overall aim is to strengthen border security and enforcement of trade restrictions to eliminate illegal smuggling activities in the Philippines.

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Factors of eradicating smuggling in the Philippines

Objectives:

1. To be able to understand about smuggling in the Philippines

2. To be able to know about the pros and cons

3. To identify the key points of issues

Rationale

International disputes over waste are uncommon. The world is currently seeing waves
of newsworthy trash sagas. It is difficult to help but ask if this is a true indicator of
increased environmentalism, with the Philippines shipping containers of trash back to
Canada, Malaysia intending to return tons of trash to nations of origin, and China
banning the import of nearly all plastic waste. Sembiring, M. (2019). 

This case study aims to eradicate smugglings in the Philippines, the history of shipping
container trash is one ground yet we cannot let another smuggling slip in our country.
The balance may lean toward the economic side given that the worldwide trash trade is
a multi-billion dollar industry.

Discussion

According to Section 3519 of the Tariff and Customs Code of the Philippines, smuggling
"is an act of any person who shall fraudulently import or bring into the Philippines, or
assist in so doing, any article, contrary to law or shall receive, conceal, buy, sell or in
any manner facilitate the transportation, concealment, or sale of such article after
importation, knowing the same to have been imported contrary to law. It includes the
exportation of articles in a manner contrary to law. Articles subject to this paragraph
shall be known as smuggled articles".

Smuggling refers to the importation, exportation, carriage coastwise, transfer, or


removal of goods into or out of a Partner State with the intent to underpay Customs
duties or to circumvent any law, rule, or condition pertaining to such importation,
exportation, carriage coastwise, transfer, or removal of any goods. In order to avoid
paying taxes, smuggling activities generally entail the importation or exportation of
products. Illegal trade is an unlawful way to conduct business. The leading causes of
smuggling are avarice, ignorance, and a lack of government oversight. According to
Kenneth Abante, MA, March 2019. “0.7 to 1.7 percent improvement in collections or a
0.02 to 0.05 percentage point increase in the tax to GDP ratio over this six-year period.
This estimate is limited to homogenous and reference-priced goods that represent a
third of total Philippine import value”

To reduce the smuggling in the Philippines or in other country it should be needed a


trusted authorized personnel to control or to check the ports, Even when in port or at
the station, surveillance must be kept up, especially with regard to increased security
measures on board and constant monitoring of all susceptible areas. Each business
must take into account how significant the danger is at the specific port. In fact, a full
port briefing should be requested from either the local agent or correspondent prior to
the ship's arrival.

Trade increases global market potential, provider profitability, and international


competition. Additionally, greater commerce will enhance job prospects, shorten the
length of the recession, and improve the trade balance. However, the administration is
crucial in the enforcement of trade restrictions on imported products in order to prevent
them from ruining the domestic market or, to some extent, monopolizing it.

Recommendation

In order to eradicate the smuggling in the Philippines to enhance and to reduce the
illegal doing it is highly recommend to do so as the Republic act No.4712 AN ACT
AMENDING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF THE
PHILIPPINES.

Conclusion

Eradicating smuggling in the Philippines helps us to reduce the crime of import and
exportation on each other’s boarder, to understand more about the effect of smuggling
in the country and to enhance the security of the ports and authorities.

References:

Sembiring, M. (2019). Global Waste Trade Chaos: Rising Environmentalism or Cost-


Benefit Analysis?. S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies..
https://ura.go.ug/resources/webuploads/INLB/Smuggling%20latest.pdf

https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37366837

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