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  If there were a level playing field then smuggling (of tobacco and alchol) would not happen and traders across the country would benefit. It is because HMG has imposed much higher duty on certain goods in this country that smuggling is rife.
  
  What Hoverspeed did was call the bluff of HM Custumes and Exercises and won. HMR&C (HMC&E as was) imposes a ceiling on what can be imported into this country "for personal use". However, there is nothing written in law to support that ceiling; quite the opposite as we have open borders for the transit of goods between EU member nations.
  
  I'm surprised the HMR&C haven't cracked down on Le Shuttle for their special rates for solo tractor units going across the channel at weekends to fill up with diesel in Belgium. Some local hauliers were saving a fortune on fuel costs by sending a couple of units across two or three times over the course of a weekend. They would come back with nearly full tanks, decant most of it into a tank back at base and go fetch some more. This practice only becomes illegal if the diesel obtained in this way is then sold on rather than being used by haulier.

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