Lore:Smuggling

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"Any act of bringing in, taking out, teleporting, or causing to be brought in, taken out, or teleported an object considered illegal or, if not illegal, requiring an import or export tax which is not paid. The punishment for this crime may include a fine or incarceration, or a fine and incarceration, and will include confiscation of the offensive or illegal object. It may also include, but not be restricted to, execution or banishment, or execution and banishment." --Legal Basics

Smuggling is big business in both Elsweyr and Morrowind. The Empire forbids trade with Moon Sugar, Skooma, Ebony, Dwemer artifacts, weapons, armor and Slaves. Smugglers also deal in greef, shein and sujamma to avoid high Imperial taxes on liquor. ^[1] Main smuggling areas are the Bitter Coast ^[2]controlled by the Camonna Tong and the port of Senchal by Khajiit pirates respectively. Smugglers are hunted by Census and Excise agents, punishment for smuggling is often severe ^[3] and anyone is free to kill smugglers on sight. In the game Redguard, smugglers organized themselves in the Restless League against the Empire's crackdown on smuggling and piracy.

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1. ↑ According to Yellow Book of 3E 426 "King Hlaalu Athyn Llethan, High Councilor and Lord of Morrowind, grants relief to merchants complaining of high tariffs on imported alcoholic beverages."
2. ↑ According to Smuggler's Island: "Their boat, laden with five crates of moon sugar, was supposed to meet another, the Sanchariot, off the coast of Hla Oad."
3. ↑ According to Galerion the Mystic: "The trial of the smugglers was nonexistant, and the punishment swift. The body of Trechtus' father was kept hanging for weeks during the hottest summer Sollicich-on-Ker had seen in centuries."