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The Government prevents, not supports cigarette smuggling 

The Serbian Finance Ministry refuted accusations that it supported tobacco smuggling and insisted that the Decree on tax accounting with Kosovo-Metohija prevented the smuggling of goods with excise tax labels because "a deposit in the amount of total entrance duty for the goods is charged when entering the FRY."

According to the Decree, a deposit or a bank guarantee for excisable goods for Kosovo must be provided at the entrance to the FRY. The deposit is returned on the border between Serbia proper and Kosovo, said Serbian Deputy Finance Minister Dejan Popovic at today's news conference.

Popovic said that this was the third decree of the Serbian government that dealt with settling public revenues with the Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija.

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