Alcoholic Beverages: Bill Causes ControversyIn Costa Rica, a bill is being discussed that seeks to combat adulteration and smuggling of alcoholic beverages, but the business sector believes that if approved, the result could be an increase in illegal trafficking.Monday, September 9, 2019
The project called "Law against adulteration and smuggling of alcoholic beverages", proposes the use of technological tools to combat smuggling, imitation and adulteration of alcoholic beverages. See full bill. Source: elobservadorcr.com ¿Busca soluciones de inteligencia comercial para su empresa?Liquor, Curfews and SmugglingJanuary 2021 As a result of the restrictions on mobility and the ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages, which were decreed in 2020 to mitigate the outbreak of covid-19, it is estimated that the smuggling of liquor from Mexico into the Guatemalan market increased considerably. Alcoholic Beverages: Bill Attempted to ReviveSeptember 2020 A bill is being considered in Costa Rica that proposes to identify each container of this type of beverage with a device, label or sticker in order to prevent smuggling, a measure that, according to business people, would not be effective. Pandemic, Smuggling and Black MarketApril 2020 Given the crisis in the region, businessmen in Guatemala report that smuggling of Mexican products has increased, while in Panama, beer producers attribute the rise in illegal trade in alcoholic beverages to the dry law. Alcoholic Beverages and ContrabandSeptember 2018 It has been reported that six out of ten bottles of liquor consumed in Costa Rica are of illegal origin, and this situation has been attributed to the heavy tax on alcoholic beverages in the country.
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