Deploy personnel to fight illegal trade in modern techniques

Legal trade and those traders are doing their business with integrity for the benefit of the State economy but illegal trade and illegal traders do not consider the interests of the State and citizens except for their selfishness as well as the tarnished image of the nation.
Illegal traders commit to taking advantage of weaknesses in trade policies, orders, directives and procedures as well as impossible situations to conduct cent per cent checking the commodities from all trucks and security restrictions for illegally exporting and importing goods in various ways and means.
Officials and departmental personnel from relevant checkpoints under the leadership of the Illegal Trade Eradication Steering Committee seized various kinds of illegal commodities within more than one year from January 2022 to date. In this regard, illegal traders who trafficked extra loaded commodities rather than the import declaration mixed the high-priced goods with low-priced ones which have not been paid customs duties. If so, the duty-assigned personnel need to perform inspection and seizure of illegal goods applying their experiences and rationality.
Currently, the Customs Department applies the Myanmar Automated Cargo Clearance System-MACCS system as well as the Trade Department uses Myanmar TradeNet 2.0 and QR Code system in checking and managing the import and export of commodities to ensure the smooth and swift flow of commodities and to effectively hamper illegal trade measures.
It is necessary to manage the deployment of staff members and system in checking commodities whether is based on illegal or illegal trade processes. Only if so, will it be effectively eradicating the illegal trade. Authorities and officials should apply the techniques and systems appropriate for the current era in addition to conventional means.
The seized commodities must be managed under systematic procurement procedures for the State to get deserved amount of income as revenue. Duty-assigned personnel make sacrifices and take risk of seizing illegally imported commodities. If the seized materials are damaged before the auction, the efforts of those personnel will be wasted as well as the State will lose income. As such, relevant departments need to take responsibility for supervising the seized materials.
Eradication of illegal trade is playing an important role in implementing the five-point roadmap and 12 objectives of the State Administration Council. Authorities and relevant bodies need to seek the best ways for hampering, inspecting and taking action against illegal traders and illegally imported goods more than now through comprehensive long-term plans for the sake of the State and legal traders such as businesspersons engaging in micro, small and medium-sized enterprises to have the capacity of market competitiveness.