Mobile teams to inspect international airport
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Mobile teams cracking down on smuggling will inspect warehouses and public places such as the baggage and air cargo areas at Yangon International Airport in December, according to Win Myint, chairperson of the Central Committee for Illegal Trade Control.
After about one year of taking action against smuggling, the illegal trade has increased to more than US$3 billion officially. Besides the government have more than 7.8 billion Ks from illegal trade and about 4.5 billion Ks from issuing trading cards in border areas, sources from Central Committee of Illegal Trade Control say.
In 2013-2014 fiscal years from April 1 from October 18, foreign trade amount is over $12 billion and has over $13 billion until October 25, sources say.
The government has seized more than 7.8 billion Ks from illegal trade from November 1, 2012, to November 7, 2013.
Myanmar has earned about $6 billion from export and brought back import products worth of $7.1 billion. The trade deficiency is over $1 billion. The government plans to earn more than $25 billion from export products [20 per cent of the export products from border trade and 80 per cent from maritime trade] in this fiscal year.
