The Mozambican Tax Authority (AT) expresses its concern about the wave of smuggling that takes place in the border line between Mozambique and Malawi, especially in agricultural products.

According to the president of the AT, Amélia Muendane, the Melosa border, located in the district of Milange, central province of Zambezia, was one of the critical points for the practice of smuggling of agricultural products, being cereals, oilseeds, fuel, unprocessed tobacco, the most affected.

In imports, the most smuggled products, according to the source, are bicycle parts, fresh eggs, fuel, cooking oil, wheat flour, dried fish, cereals, soft drinks, clothing, plastic items, chickens, lamps, manufactured tobacco, and soap.

Muendane revealed this during a patenting ceremony for 50 customs officials from Zambezia, an event that took place in the provincial capital Quelimane.

"But it is not only from the Melosa border where smuggling occurs. In Mbirima, Mambucha, Chitambo, Arrozal, Mbessa and Chire the smuggled products are transported on bicycles, by small groups of carriers ranging from three to five people, with an average of three to four bags of grain, per trip, per carrier, and disposed of after the borders are closed, through clandestine roads," he said, according to AIM.