Why do criminals smuggle garlic? O_o

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  1. Nugget

    Nugget Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    Short answer


    EU imposes 9.6% customs duty on foreign garlic
    China produces about 80% of the world's garlic, cheaply
    Criminals can make millions of euros smuggling it




     
  2. Henry Wartooth

    Henry Wartooth New Member

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    Black markets are nothing more than a measure of the interference in natural market forces.
     
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    There's a genuine reason to police this. Those recent salmonella poisonings in Europe that came from fresh vegetables (FFS) was a result of unsanitary growing conditions of the host country.

    Just google "night soil fertiliser" to see why.

    Garlic produced in China is particularly effected.

    Don't forget, these are the operators that put poison in baby formula...
     
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    The EU is also a beaurocratic Leviathan that at its' base is full of leaky holes.

    Anyone in the UK - Vote UKIP and get out of that EU fiasco.
     
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    Shorter answer: because they can.
     
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    Smuggling cigarette is taking too much heat?

    The Chinese garlic is $2 a small bag in market, and the Spanish garlic is like $20-$30/kg at supermarket. I'll be darned if I know the difference in taste...as I am hopeless at cooking anyway :D
     
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    shit hey? who'd have thunk it.
     
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    Who buys kilos of garlic anyway?
     
  11. Big A.D.

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    Restaurants, cafes, caterers, packaged food producers, small retailers...
     
  12. spannermonkey

    spannermonkey Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    I do ;)
    First sign of a good "WOG"
    When nana makes Borscht , on the side is at least 3/4 cloves of raw garlic :D
    LOVE the stuff raw :p
     
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    ^^^ +1000. No good "ethnic" would be without garlic.
     
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    Harvested my 1st garlic crop.

    Piece of Cake.

    Cloves in dirt right way up.

    Wait a couple of months.

    Cured in dry air for 10 days.

    Bung in freezer & use when needed.

    Once out of freezer keep in open air, not in fridge.

    Keeps vampires away.....
     

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