Vers Brus Lycée Départemental de Boussouma / Boulgou Teacher: Mr. CONGO Text Study: Smuggling evade customs duties or import or export restrictions. School year 2023-2024 Class: 2nde C Smuggling, conveyance of things by stealth, particularly the clandestine movement of goods to 18th-century England, coffee in many European countries, and tobacco almost everywhere) or Smuggling flourishes wherever there are high-revenue duties (e.g., on tea, spirits, and silks in prohibitions on importation (narcotics) or on exportation (arms and currency). tobacco, spices, silks, and spirits were smuggled into England in quantities exceeding those brought Smuggling is probably as old as the first tax or regulation on trade. In the 18th century, tea, in legitimately. In France smuggling against the tobacco monopoly and the exorbitant tax on salt became widespread. Britain could not enforce its mercantilist policy of requiring its colonies to trade with the rest of the world only through the mother country, and by 1744 more than 40 vessels from the American colonies were trading directly with the Spanish empire. Attempts by the Chinese government to stop the smuggling of opium led to the opium war of the 1840s . British India in the 19th century suffered smuggling of salt between states with different tax rates, while smuggling of all kinds of dutiable goods occurred between Goa and India and between Gibraltar and Spain. In the latter half of the 19th century, smuggling developed in Africa, particularly of spirits from the Portuguese colonies into the Boer states and from French colonies into the Gold Coast and Nigeria. During the 13 years of the prohibition of the sale of liquor in the United States (1920- 33), fleets of ships carried liquor from Europe and the West Indies to the Atlantic coast, while truckloads were run all along the Canadian frontier. In the second half of the 20th century, such drugs as heroin, cocaine, and cannabis were products for smuggling worldwide. Methods of smuggling change little; all are variants of two main techniques: the undetected running of cargoes across frontiers and the concealment of goods in unlikely places on ships or cars, in baggage or cargo, or on the person. Source: Britannica.com Reading Comprehension Guiding question: Read the text silently and answer the question below. "What are the two (02) main techniques used by smugglers?" Activity 2: After reading the text, answer the questions below. 1- What smuggling is? 2- Why do people practise smuggling? 3- What are the products that were smuggled in the 18th century? 4- What did attempts by the Chineese government to stop the smuggling of opium lead to? 5- Where was smuggling developed in Africa? Activity 3: With your neighbours, discuss and find out four (04) products which are smuggled in your country. Homework: With a paragraph about three (03) drawbacks of smuggling. R r C пр C ​