It encourages a law-breaking culture based on bad moral values. In short, smuggling is disastrous for our nation. Yet, it cannot be controlled because those who can control it, and do have the power, are involved. You mentioned substandard goods being smuggled into Yemen. This is necessary for health, environmental, economic and other reasons.
Parliament has a supervisory role vis-avis the government.
But we cannot order them to their job, if they are not doing it. Ideally, we should be able to exert more pressure, but that is not the case, given the distorted distribution of power structure among the branches of authority. The ability of parliament to do its job is hampered by this reality. While I am on the subject let me mention that our committee had prepared a draft law on standards and measurements. We discussed the details for one year.