Jungle of a market
The issue of mobile smuggling and its high import tariff is an old hat and analysts have long been arguing that the authorities did not pay as much attention to subject as it deserved.
The questions that arise here are: Why such a practice is not being dealt with seriously by the government agencies? and Why smugglers are not being stopped at country’s borders? – which the police and the authorities at the Commerce and the Industries and Mines ministries and other relevant bodies are quite capable of doing?
The rise from 4% to 60% and later cut to 25% of mobile imports tariff has resulted in smugglers’ ever more expansion of activities to the extent that, according to some market sources, 90% of the market is now run by smugglers.
It is suggested that the authorities impose constant surveillance on the present chaotic mobile market and, at the same time, cut present import tariff to a logical figure in order to eliminate black marketeering and safeguard the rights of 50 million consumers.
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