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Gijs de Best urges shared enforcement to curb illicit trade

Illicit trade costs governments billions and puts consumers at risk. Gijs de Best says only shared intelligence and enforceable rules can curb the problem.

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00:01Elicitrade fuels crime, elicitrade significantly deteriorates governmental revenues,
00:08elicitrade undermines legitimate businesses and weakens political institutions.
00:13If you take governmental revenue, every additional dollar earned can be reinvested in healthcare,
00:19in education, in infrastructure, etc.
00:22Consumers are using elicitrade products and those products, they don't have quality standards,
00:29they don't follow safety protocols, they don't follow product standards,
00:32so they impose a risk on consumers using these products.
00:37That elicitrade is purely an issue in the Western world is often a misconception.
00:42Emerging markets are facing the exact same, if not worse, and they need the funding.
00:48That's why it's so important they make their voices heard on international fora around combating elicitrade.
00:55Criminal networks, their operations, their money, their products, they go cross-border.
01:00That's why it's so important to work together as countries, to share information, to share intel,
01:06to share ways of enforcing this, to make policies together.
01:11Good regulation without enforcement only impacts the legitimate businesses,
01:15because they follow the regulation and elicitrade, and they don't follow the regulation.
01:20That's why it's important to have sensible regulation, taking into account consumer protection,
01:27taking into account the enforceability of it, and the practicality of it.
01:31If that's not met, it cannot be addressed properly.
01:35Combating elicitrade should be an integral part of policy making.
01:39If done successfully, it will reduce the crime rates and will significantly increase governmental revenues.
01:45Though it's important to mention that it should be addressed cross-country,
01:49and with sensible regulation that takes into account consumer protection, enforceability and product standards,
01:55and only then it will work.
02:00conventional programme of policy methods
02:00you can access more accounts of fraud.
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