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1 results foundAuthor: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Title: Misuse of Licit Trade for Opiate Trafficking in Western and Central Asia: A Threat Assessment Summary: Over the last decade, economic relations between countries in Western and Central Asia have greatly improved. The introduction of a number of trade agreements that have removed or reduced trade barriers has resulted in a marked increase in trade in the region. Dry ports play a key role in regional trade and in particular in facilitating the movement of goods between different forms of transportation within the Western and Central Asian transport network. Goods arrive at and depart from dry ports by a range of modes of transport, including by road, rail, inland waterways and airports, and the ports provide services for the handling and temporary storage of containers and general and/or bulk cargo. For countries in the region with no direct access to the sea, such as Afghanistan, dry ports are crucial hubs for commercial trade. In order to facilitate the movement of goods across borders, a number of trade agreements have been implemented to reduce the level of customs inspections at dry ports and border control points and to standardize transport regulations. However, while the volume of trade handled at dry ports in the region has increased, there has been no corresponding expansion in the level of law enforcement in these locations. This report analyses the role of dry ports in the regional trade network and highlights the risk of their abuse by drug traffickers. It also contains an in-depth analysis of the ways in which drug traffickers abuse the trade network to smuggle opiates. Many of the problems and risks that are identified in relation to trade agreements, dry ports and the transportation network in Western and Central Asia can also be applied to many other regions in the world. The report is divided into three sections. The first section contains an overview of the major trade routes used to transport goods in Western and Central Asia, and an explanation of the role of dry ports in the regional transportation network. The second section contains an overview of the eight major bilateral and regional trade and transit trade agreements that Afghanistan has entered into over the last 10 years. Each overview is broken down into five parts, comprising: A brief introduction of the trade agreement; An outline of the trade and/or transit trade levels and routes used in the relevant countries; A description of the transportation and customs regulations contained in the agreement; An analysis of the functions, trade capacity and law enforcement capacity of dry ports along the specific trade routes; and, An overview of opiate and chemical precursor trafficking at trade and transit routes and dry ports. The third section contains a discussion of the ways in which opiates are trafficked by sea from South-West Asia to East Africa. Details: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2012. 130p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 13, 2012 at http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/Studies/Opiate_Trafficking_and_Trade_Agreements_english_web.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Asia URL: http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/Studies/Opiate_Trafficking_and_Trade_Agreements_english_web.pdf Shelf Number: 126689 Keywords: Drug TraffickingLicit Trade, MisuseOpiates |