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Latest cigarette bust sets off official smoke alarm 

Jump to full article: Hoover's, 2003-01-27

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January 29, 2003 11:44pm

01/27/2003

A LARGE seizure of smuggled cigarettes, this time in Danang, has drawn the nation's attention back to an issue which has local tobacco firms fuming.

Five 40-foot containers containing $640,000-worth of Jet cigarettes were busted at the province's Tien Sa Port by Economic Police and Danang Customs two weeks ago.

Shipper Hoang Dai Trading stated it had temporarily imported the cigarettes from Laos before exporting them to a third country, and so it was not required to pay duties.

The plot thickened when National Office of Industrial Property (NOIP) investigators found the cigarettes were actually imitations

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