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URA foils efforts to smuggle inland 20 cartons of banned cosmetics

Mulema Najib by Mulema Najib
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By  Watchdog reporter

Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) enforcement has foiled efforts to smuggle inland 20 cartons of banned cosmetics via Ishasha river customs.

The smugglers had disguised the illegal cosmetics as charcoal.

Uganda is losing tax revenue in a lucrative underground trade of smuggled goods, consisting mainly of cosmetics and motorcycles.

Sources at the Uganda Revenue Authority said that the value of goods impounded in Mpondwe, western Uganda at the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo stood at Ush200 million ($57,734) per month by the end of September.

In 2015, the Uganda National Bureau of Standards banned the sale of cosmetics containing hydrotoxins and mercury due to the health risks they posed to consumers, but traders are secretly bringing them into the country.

The banned beauty products are popular because they cost below Ush5,000 ($1.4) per unit compared with an average price of Ush8,000 ($2.3) per unit for “safe” brands.


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