Rice Smuggling Essay

If we cannot begin to resolve the problems of our country, such as the elimination of rice smuggling, then we really are not ready to march into the future. Rice smuggling refers to the illegal importation of rice without paying the rightful custom duties; unable to present the rightful document needed for importation; smuggled rice didn't go through the customs therefore it is sold at markets in a lower price; obliging our local farmers to lower the price of domestic rice. Smugglers who steal our country’s fund keep the authority stable in the importations of rice; however, rice smuggling slows down the progress of our country’s economy.
Rice smuggling has been one of the major concerns in the country and, most dreadfully, one of the most extensive problems that the Philippines continually faces. Badly, rice smuggling is still frequent in our world today. Our country lost more than P10 billion in revenues due to rice smuggling in the past 10 years. High protective tariffs encourage smugglers. It gives them ammunition to defy and corrupt further our weak institutions. The country’s authorities are not even stable in the importations of rice that is why some gets-in without the

Our country is not yet ready to progress because a lot of people still suffer from hunger and poverty. Our government can’t even resolve much easier problems. For example, the traffic in manila, riding in tandem, rape, murder, robbery and hold-up. If those types of simple problems can’t even solve by our government then what more could they do to resolve hunger and poverty. Our country and even our government are not yet prepared enough to march into the future because most of them only think about themselves, greed is the only thing running in their mind. They do not even think the welfare or others, they only think of what they will have and what they can