PPT-Monitoring and countering the illicit arms trade

CURRENT EVENTS Prominent gun control advocate California senator Leeland Yee arrested for arms trafficking with the Philippines UN meeting on the Program of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons in June. A lack of transparency on the part of many states and dif64257culties of disaggregating data on transfers that some states do report create numerous challenges for the study of this activity Lists of the most active countries tend to be skewed towa By Luk Joossens David Merriman Hana Ross and Martin Raw Paris International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2009 In most countries illicit cigarettes are much cheaper than legal fully taxed cigarettes Cheap illicit cigarettes increase to Tracing illicit small arms and light weapons. United Nations framework. International Tracing . Instrument. Marking. Recordkeeping. Cooperation in tracing. UN Firearms Protocol. UN . Programme. of Action. The Global Arms Trade. Presented by: . Dr. Lisa Baglione, St. Joseph’s University. Wednesday, March 12 . &. Thursday, March 13, 2014. Temple University, Fox School of Business . · . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 17th October 2013. Karl Lallerstedt . Karl Lallerstedt. co-founder Black Market Watch. member OECD Task Force on Charting Illicit Trade. Past. Political and Economic Analyst. - Department of State. - The Economist Intelligence Unit. Trade-Based . Money Laundering . Generates corruption and crime. Loss . of tax . revenue (evasion of . the customary . fees and . taxes paid by law-abiding . importers, e.g. bank fees, sales taxes, importation taxes). Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research. University of Queensland Centre . and. National Addiction Centre. Kings College London. Testing the Waters: . What can waste water tell us about illicit drug use? . and the Importance of . Cross-Border Journalism Networks. 2014 . Financial Transparency Coalition Conference. Clark Gascoigne. Communications Director. Global . Financial Integrity. Lima, Peru. October 13, . April 2017. Enrique Fanta. Senior Trade Facilitation Specialist. General . Aspects. on . Tax. and . Customs. . Administrations. Latinoamerican. . Region. Tax and Customs with professional staff, modern IT System for processing basic Tax and Customs processes (Registration, Filing, Payments, Declarations, Risk Management). A research study conducted by Alvarez & Marsal. Tobacco . products are among the most highly trafficked products in the world, second only to drugs. . An estimated $40-$50 billion in tax revenues a year is being lost to the illicit trade. Africa. ______________________________________________________________________________. . Presentation to Standing Committee on Finance . 02 May 2018. DISCLAIMER: . Figures . and statistics referred to . Andy Logan. Associate Director, Oxford . Economics. 2 July. . 2014. Methods to estimate the . scale . of . illicit cigarettes. Smoker . surveys. Empty pack and cigarette butt . collection . and analysis. C. rime, Corruption and Terrorism. Louise Shelley, . Hirst. Chair and Director of Terrorism, Transnational Crime Center, SGPIA,. George Mason University. www.globalinitiative.net. Corruption and Crime. Trade-Based . Money Laundering . Generates corruption and crime. Loss . of tax . revenue (evasion of . the customary . fees and . taxes paid by law-abiding . importers, e.g. bank fees, sales taxes, importation taxes).