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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Smuggling

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CHAPTER II-B SMUGGLING SMUGGLING, as defined under Section 3519 of the Tariff and Customs Code of the Philippines, "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". KINDS OF SMUGGLING Briefly, there are two kinds of smuggling: 1. Outright smuggling means that there are no documents involved: no import entries, etc. Outright …show more content…

Based on various newspaper accounts, technical smuggling is the main procedure by which imported goods or cargoes are brought into the country while outright smuggling is just a relatively minor in magnitude compared with technical smuggling. And according to the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, the estimated loss of revenues from technical smuggling ranges from PHP 89 billion to PHP 200 billion a year, which is enough amount to wipe out a big chunk of the nation’s budget deficit to finance the building of thousands of schools, roads, bridges, hospitals, and low-cost housings for the poor families and other necessary infrastructures for the attainment of economic and national …show more content…

And most of these transactions could have not been made possible without the direct involvement and participation of the importer, broker and even some customs officials and personnel. Thus, technical smuggling is a form of corruption since it is a dysfunctional act that negates the accomplishment of bureaucrat’s constitutional mandate of promoting public interest through the misuse of public office for personal

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