Smuggling

Smuggling is the conveyance of things by stealth, particularly the clandestine movement of goods to evade customs duties or import or export restrictions.

Smuggling flourishes wherever there are high-revenue duties (e.g., on tea, spirits, and silks in 18th-century England, coffee in many European countries, and tobacco almost everywhere) or prohibitions on import (narcotics) or on export (arms and currency).

Links

 * Smuggling in 18th and 19th century Britain
 * Smuggled Goods and Products information
 * The Economics of Cigarette Taxes by Don Mathews
 * (from chapter 3 of Reassessing the Presidency)
 * (from chapter 3 of Reassessing the Presidency)