Hundreds of iPhone si iPad were discovered by the customs authorities in Argentina, the value of the company's products Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), approaching 800.000 dollars, they will end up in a store dedicated to the sale of products from Cupertino. The contraband was shipped by an American company, but Apple products are subject to import restrictions in Argentina, so the customs and tax authorities investigated the company that was going to sell them locally and discovered the shipment.
260 iPhone terminals, 10 iPad tablets and 60 Macs were in the transport that was supposed to reach the Argentinian company, they were accompanied by hundreds of Canon, Nikon and Panasonic cameras. Considering that we are talking about very popular products in Argentina, but also about import restrictions, their value can be up to 3 times higher than that in the USA, even in normal stores.
Argentine authorities have seized a trove of contraband electronics worth almost $800,000 that included Apple iPhones and iPads, tax collection officials said Tuesday. The shipment originated from a company in the United States but contained items that are subject to Argentina's import restrictions on smartphones and other items. Inspectors found more than 500 Apple products including about 260 iPhones, 10 iPads and 60 laptops. Other items include hundreds of Canon, Nikon and Panasonic cameras.
The situation in Argentina is met and in China, for example, where Apple products have very high prices, smugglers becoming very skilled at transporting them across the border into the country. More precisely, there the Chinese tie their iPhone terminals to their bodies in an attempt to fool the authorities, and quite often people have been discovered with hundreds of iPhones attached to various parts of their bodies.
As long as Apple products are popular, problems like this will exist, and thieves will become more and more inventive.
