{"id":20912,"date":"2016-06-07T10:50:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T10:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcrime.it\/pubblicazioni\/the-belarusian-hub-for-illicit-tobacco\/"},"modified":"2020-07-31T12:27:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T10:27:24","slug":"the-belarusian-hub-for-illicit-tobacco","status":"publish","type":"pubblicazioni","link":"https:\/\/www.transcrime.it\/en\/publications\/the-belarusian-hub-for-illicit-tobacco\/","title":{"rendered":"The Belarusian Hub for Illicit Tobacco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Key hubs are crucial sets of countries on the regional, continental or global map of the illicit trade in tobacco products (ITTP).<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<\/b>The analysis of key hubs instead of single countries enables a more comprehensive\u00a0understanding of the factors determining transnational illicit flows and a more effective identification of the\u00a0strategies needed to fight and prevent the ITTP. The following elements often characterise key hubs:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>medium to high levels of the ITTP in the hub,<\/li>\n<li>significant price differentials of tobacco products across the hub,<\/li>\n<li>extensive engagement of local manufacturers in the ITTP and<\/li>\n<li>substantial flows of illicit tobacco to, within or from the hub to other countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This report focuses on the\u00a0<b>Belarusian hub\u00a0<\/b>for illicit cigarettes. Belarus is the center of the hub because it is a\u00a0source for illegal tobacco products destined to the EU. The surrounding countries are included for different\u00a0reasons. Russia and Ukraine used to play a significant role in the ITTP flows and still remain important sources of\u00a0illicit products. Other countries within the hub, such as Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, are both destination and transit\u00a0countries of the Belarusian illicit tobacco flows. The report takes the name of the center of the hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key hubs are crucial sets of countries on the regional, continental or global map of the illicit trade in tobacco products (ITTP). The analysis of key hubs instead of single countries enables a more comprehensive\u00a0understanding of the factors determining transnational illicit flows and a more effective identification of the\u00a0strategies needed to fight and prevent the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":18360,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"area_pubblicazioni":[],"elementi_comuni":[],"archivio_annuale_pubblicazioni":[288],"class_list":["post-20912","pubblicazioni","type-pubblicazioni","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","archivio_annuale_pubblicazioni-2016-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Belarusian Hub for Illicit Tobacco - Transcrime<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Scopri le nostre pubblicazioni\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transcrime.it\/en\/publications\/the-belarusian-hub-for-illicit-tobacco\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Belarusian Hub for Illicit Tobacco - 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