Tunisia's annual losses due to cigarette smuggling rise to about 40% of the revenues of the tobacco sector, which provides the state budget with 1.3 billion dinars annually. The influx of smuggled cigarettes to Tunisia has declined by 35% in 2015 and 2016, driven by policies adopted by the government to combat parallel trade, smuggling and border truck monitoring.
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The Tunisian economic expert, Murad Al-Hattab, said that the volume of large imports is what led to the current deficit and thus to lift support for some products.
He said in a statement to Arabs Today that some imported goods are unnecessary, such as the dough Baklava, of which Tunisia imported 4 million tons of it from Turkey inRead more