ILLICIT TRADING CONFERENCE

BY KEITH NUTHALLTOBACCO companies should be made subject to tougher auditing controls, to enable customs and other regulators to better detect any diversion of products onto the black market, an International Conference on Illicit Tobacco Trade has concluded.Staged in New York by the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, with the assistance of the United Nations and World Health Organisation, a conference working party decided that "all persons engaged" in the tobacco sector could "be licensed at a national or sub-national level." Licensing ...


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