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Examining the negative impacts of illicit trade on SDG 8

The TRACIT report, "Examining the negative impacts of illicit trade on SDG 8",  updates key findings from the 2019 Mapping the Impact of Illicit Trade on the Sustainable Development Goals to focus on the impacts of illicit trade on decent work and inclusive economic growth. Additionally, it incorporates observations on how the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the illicit trade economy.
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Illicit Trade and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

From  smuggling, counterfeiting and tax evasion, to the illegal sale or possession of goods, services, humans and wildlife, illicit trade is compromising the attainment of the UN SDGs in significant ways, crowding out legitimate economic activity, depriving governments of revenues for investment in vital public services, dislocating millions of legitimate jobs and causing irreversible damage to ecosystems and human lives.
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Mapping the Impact of Illicit Trade on the Sustainable Development Goals
Despite the recognition of international trade as an important means to achieve the SDGs, insufficient attention has been given to the substantial impact that illicit trade has on  holding back progress.

In order to help governments and business better understand how their efforts to achieve sustainable development must account for the negative forces of illicit trade, this study  maps the 17 UN SDGs against the following sectors: agri-foods, alcohol, fisheries, forestry,  petroleum, pharmaceuticals, precious metals and gemstones, pesticides, tobacco,  wildlife and all forms of counterfeiting and piracy. These sectors were chosen because  they participate significantly in international trade and they are particularly vulnerable to  illicit trade. Trafficking in persons is also examined as a particularly abhorrent phenomenon  affecting supply chains and basic human rights as well as contributing to illicit trade  practices.  
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TRACIT would like to thank the Secretariat of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) for hosting the Dialogue on Illicit Trade and the Sustainable Development Goals, and assisting with sharing the study to UNCTAD Member States as part of the publication’s public launch that took place in Geneva, Switzerland, on 18 July 2019.
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Dialogue on Illicit Trade and the SDGs
UNCTAD / TRACIT Co-hosted event
​Geneva,  July 18,  2019


Illicit Trade Forum
UNCTAD / TRACIT co-hosted event
Geneva, 3-4 February 2020


Fourteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Kyoto, 7-12 March 2021


2nd Illicit Trade Forum
UNCTAD / TRACIT co-hosted event
Geneva, 6-7 September 2022

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