Illegal trade is business that is not in accordance with law, and the traded object is usually something that shouldn't be sold. Internet plays a role too in this
case because of the easiness of getting information, illegal trade spreads
rapidly and internet makes it goes worldwide. The organization who runs the
business will have a lot of benefit because their business goes global and they
will continue their business and even if someday they stop doing business,
their customer will still search for them because of their own needs. This is
getting harder when the government doesn’t know the differences between the illegal
product and the legal one so that the illegal product can get into the country
easily, this kind of thing is possible because of government and institution’s neglectfulness.
Some example of illegal trade
that has been claimed as a ‘profitable international crime’:
Illegal wildlife trade (illegal animal trafficking) is one of the
illegal trade which many country tend to do. Because the benefit of doing this
kind of business can obtain profit to US $ 10 billion, the animal is usually
taken from Africa and also Southeast Asia and the target of this business are
the buyers in China for traditional medicine, Europe and United States for
animal testing or animal experimentation. Their skin is taken for the bags,
wallets and belt’s manufacture, because of this illegal trade, a lot of species
are endangered.
Arms trafficking (illegal gun trafficking) also become the most
common business in the reality of international life. There are two different
kinds of arms trafficking: grey market and black market. Grey market is where
the illegal transaction that has been made is known by the government but even
it breaks the law, government will remain silent because it’s usually for the
urgent need. And black market is beyond government’s knowledge, it’s entirely
not under government’s control. The problem is when weapons/gun is abused by
people who have a bad intention.
Human trafficking this one can be called as slavery in the modern era,
because the object of this trade is human. This obtains profit to US $ 32
billion, and the people is usually being used for sexual slavery or forced
labor. Human trafficking is basically selling people to people to do anything
the buyers want from them. Most of those people are from Soviet Union, North
Africa, India, Pakistan and China. Human
trafficking is the second most profitable criminal acts in the world.
That’s not all there are still
illegal gold trafficking, human organs, oil, and drugs, there are so many kind
of illegal trade that goes global. Illegal trade is one of the impact of free
trade, because free trade brings the freedom of trading and free trade’s law is
made to simplify the transaction from one country to another so the obstacle of
delivering products or doing business with another country is unlikely. Illegal
trade still happen till now although there’s law which has been made to prevent
it, it’s probably because the profit that can be obtained from doing this
business is so big and with the easiness to access the product, this business is
not really a hard one to run.
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Yohana Sarah Mukti Kristanti / 1701349933
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