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<p>Free Trade Zones and ports play a clear role in facilitating legitimate international
trade, but where there is lax oversight or weak governance they are susceptible to
abuse by transnational criminal networks. Under the joint leadership of HMRC and the
US Department of Homeland Security, the OECD Countering Illicit Trade Taskforce has
made significant progress in developing draft guidance on measures to enhance the
transparency of Free Trade Zones, so as to promote clean and fair trade and to make
them unattractive to people and organisations looking to conduct tax evasion and commit
crime.</p>
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