Question 2211 — commerce and crafts

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Mr. Jean-Yves Bony draws the attention of the Minister of the Economy and Finance to the conditions mentioned several times by the Government for the application of the increase in taxation on cigarette packets (40% increase). It is clear that although this increase meets a strong health objective, it nonetheless requires the implementation of an effective plan to combat smuggling and real support for the profession. However, the trafficking of tobacco products at cut-rate prices on French soil is booming and creates an effect of unfair competition towards tobacconists, an essential cog in maintaining social ties in our rural territories. Smuggling is also particularly worrying in cross-border areas and European harmonization is getting bogged down. The Government has affirmed its desire to fight against these traffics. He would like to know the measures he intends to take to require border countries to impose identical taxation on their packets of cigarettes and to wage an effective fight against trafficking linked to tobacco products, particularly in cross-border areas.

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