page_title: Illicit cigarette trade
hierarchical_section_title: Illicit cigarette trade
caption_attribution_description: English: The UK Border Agency found over one million Jing Ling cigarettes hidden inside concrete blocks during a search on 27 October 2010.
context_page_description: The illicit cigarette trade is defined as “the production, import, export, purchase, sale, or possession of tobacco goods which fail to comply with legislation”. Illicit cigarette trade activities fall under 3 categories:
  Contraband: cigarettes smuggled from abroad without domestic duty paid
  Counterfeit: cigarettes manufactured without authorization of the rightful owners, with intent to deceive consumers and to avoid paying duty
  Illicit whites: brands manufactured legitimately in one country, but smuggled and sold in another without duties being paid.
  Cigarette smuggling, also informally referred to as "buttlegging," is the illicit transportation of cigarettes or cigars from an administrative division with low taxation to a division with high taxation for sale and consumption. The practice, commonly used by organized crime syndicates and rebel groups, is a form of tax evasion. United States Interstate Highway No. 95 came to be known informally as "New Tobacco Road" when it became a favorite cigarette-smuggling route.
context_section_description: The illicit cigarette trade is defined as “the production, import, export, purchase, sale, or possession of tobacco goods which fail to comply with legislation” (FATF 2012). Illicit cigarette trade activities fall under 3 categories:
  Contraband: cigarettes smuggled from abroad without domestic duty paid
  Counterfeit: cigarettes manufactured without authorization of the rightful owners, with intent to deceive consumers and to avoid paying duty
  Illicit whites: brands manufactured legitimately in one country, but smuggled and sold in another without duties being paid.
  Cigarette smuggling, also informally referred to as "buttlegging," is the illicit transportation of cigarettes or cigars from an administrative division with low taxation to a division with high taxation for sale and consumption. The practice, commonly used by organized crime syndicates and rebel groups, is a form of tax evasion. United States Interstate Highway No. 95 came to be known informally as "New Tobacco Road" when it became a favorite cigarette-smuggling route.
caption: Cigarettes found hidden in concrete blocks
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