Combating Smuggling in Tanzania.

Abstract

Smuggling is the illegal transportation of goods or people across borders or into and or out of a country, typically to avoid taxes, tariffs, or legal restrictions. It often involves concealing the items being moved to avoid detection by authorities responsible for controlling their importation or exportation using regulatory provisions on the same. It also involves the intentional passage of goods or people through unauthorized routes or with the consent or agreements between buyers and sellers or migration of involved person with the transporters. Smuggling basically encompasses unauthorized or illegal movement of goods and or peoples across unauthorized entry or exit borders or concealing them or falsifying information thereon through authorized entry or exit places such as Airport, Sea port or border stations, often primarily with the intent to evade taxes, customs duties, or import and export restrictions provisions and regulations.