alcohol smuggling
Illegal booze transport
Alcohol smuggling is the illegal transport of alcoholic beverages across borders or into areas where their sale is prohibited or heavily taxed.
The practice flourished during Prohibition in the United States, when smugglers known as bootleggers and rumrunners moved liquor from Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
Today alcohol smuggling persists where high taxes create profitable black markets or where religious or civil law bans alcohol entirely.
Authorities seized a boat suspected of alcohol smuggling near the coast.
- revenue lossDecline in income
- duty freeExempt from customs levies
- bootleggingIllegal alcohol production/sale
- contrabandProhibited trade goods
- secret stashConcealed personal reserve
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