Sectors competing with smuggling and the risk for manufacturers
- Importing machinery and inputs
- Importing machinery: duty and clearance
- Audited
According to CODECOF/CIG, the hardest-hit sectors are food and beverages, grains, tobacco, alcoholic beverages, pharmaceuticals, poultry and cement; FUNDESA/CACIF (2014) add footwear and apparel (17.5% of the market in the likely scenario). The conclusion for the investor: industrial machinery does not compete with smuggling, but local sales of the finished product may well do so - for a consumer-goods manufacturer the relevant competitor may not be another formal importer but contraband.
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Figures
- Calzado y vestuario, participación del comercio ilícito en el mercado
- 17.5% (escenario probable)
Sources
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