Re:Svalbard's Alcohol Quotas
by jhugo on Friday April 02, 2021 @08:22AM
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Smuggling is a thing, though. And transport costs tend to reduce as volume increases, and alcohol is a popular product...
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Well, if we are talking illegal activities, Norway shares a long, marginally patrolled border with Sweden where alcohol is significantly cheaper. So if you are into smuggeling, I would try that first, before trying to arrange something up in the arctic sea.
Re:Svalbard's Alcohol Quotas
by willowfine on Friday April 02, 2021 @04:39PM
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Pre-covid, this was a thriving and mostly legal industry. There are quotas on how much may be imported for personal consumption.
Meanwhile, the Swedes go to Denmark for cheap alcohol, the Danes go to Germany, the Germans to Poland and the Poles to Ukraine. Thus Ukraine is the fixed point of the alcohol-flow function. This theorem was proven when I was a PhD student in a research group which contained a Norwegian, a Swede, a German, a Pole and a Ukrainian - we extrapolated the Danish connection point.