illegal goods
Prohibited trade items
Illegal goods are items whose manufacture, sale, or possession is prohibited by law.
The category includes contraband like drugs, unregistered weapons, stolen property, and counterfeit currency.
What qualifies varies by jurisdiction—fireworks legal in one state may be illegal goods in another.
The term appears in legal contexts and news reports: Police seized illegal goods worth millions.
Also called illicit goods or contraband.
- bootleggingIllegal alcohol production/sale
- black marketIllicit trading system
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
- contrabandProhibited trade goods
- smugglingIllegal covert transport
stolen artifacts · stash · dealer · counterfeit currency · synthetic drugs · hallucinogens · moonshine · street drugs · fencing · blood diamonds · drug paraphernalia · drug money · ivory · amphetamines · cocaine trafficking · narcotics · cartel · banned
- shipping restrictionshazmat, prohibited items, flammables, explosives, weapons
- fake goodsfake, counterfeit, knockoff, forged, imitation
- unsellablesunmarketable, deadstock, rejects, remainders, returns
- smugglingcontraband, smugglers, human smuggling, smuggling rings, people smuggling