{
  "id": "price-gaps",
  "title": "Price gaps and smuggling",
  "chartNumber": null,
  "report": {
    "title": "Smuggling: The Role of the State and E-commerce Platforms",
    "publisher": "Insight LAC",
    "authors": [
      "Ana Basco",
      "Paula Garnero",
      "Lautaro Ramirez"
    ],
    "url": "https://estudios.insightlac.com"
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "organization": "AFARTE, citado en La Nación",
      "publication": "Mercado de celulares en Argentina: estimaciones de contrabando",
      "year": 2025,
      "url": "https://www.lanacion.com.ar/economia/informe-reservado-un-fenomeno-que-crece-debajo-de-las-napas-nid31052026/"
    },
    {
      "organization": "La Nación y El País",
      "publication": "notas del 31 de mayo y del 4 de julio de 2026",
      "year": 2026,
      "url": "https://elpais.com/argentina/2026-07-04/de-ropa-a-termos-para-el-mate-y-celulares-productos-de-contrabando-inundan-el-mercado-argentino.html"
    },
    {
      "organization": "ASIPI",
      "publication": "Estudio sobre el impacto de la falsificación y el contrabando en el desarrollo económico y social de América Latina",
      "year": 2025,
      "url": "https://asipi.org/biblioteca/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/download-manager-files/Estudio-Falsificacion-Final_.pdf"
    },
    {
      "organization": "Fundar (Ludmer, Schuffer, Schteingart e Isaak)",
      "publication": "La industria textil-indumentaria en la Argentina del siglo XXI",
      "year": 2023,
      "url": "https://fund.ar/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Fundar_La-industria-textil-indumentaria-en-la-Argentina-del-siglo-XXI_CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0-1.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": "verified",
  "note": null,
  "url": "https://estudios.insightlac.com/ecommerce/en/#brechas-de-precio",
  "attribution": "Source: Insight LAC, “Smuggling: The Role of the State and E-commerce Platforms”",
  "columns": [
    "Category",
    "Metric",
    "Figure",
    "Period",
    "Source"
  ],
  "rows": [
    [
      "Mobile phones",
      "Share of smuggling in the mobile phone market",
      "From 7% to 35%",
      "7%: 2023 · 35%: 2025",
      "AFARTE, citado en La Nación, Mercado de celulares en Argentina: estimaciones de contrabando, 2025"
    ],
    [
      "Mobile phones",
      "Price gap between the formal and irregular channels for high-end models",
      "Between 30% and 40%",
      "No reference year in the report",
      "AFARTE, citado en La Nación, Mercado de celulares en Argentina: estimaciones de contrabando, 2025"
    ],
    [
      "Mobile phones",
      "Mobile phones in the country that entered illegally",
      "One third",
      "No reference year in the report",
      "La Nación y El País, notas del 31 de mayo y del 4 de julio de 2026, 2026"
    ],
    [
      "Tobacco",
      "Price of cigarettes in Argentina compared with Paraguay",
      "Up to 3 times more expensive",
      "No reference year in the report",
      "ASIPI, Estudio sobre el impacto de la falsificación y el contrabando en el desarrollo económico y social de América Latina, 2025"
    ],
    [
      "Tobacco",
      "Taxes as a share of the final price of cigarettes",
      "About 80%",
      "No reference year in the report",
      "ASIPI, Estudio sobre el impacto de la falsificación y el contrabando en el desarrollo económico y social de América Latina, 2025"
    ],
    [
      "Apparel",
      "Apparel sold through the Flores and La Salada markets, retail stores, street fairs and street vendors, among others",
      "83%",
      "2022",
      "Fundar (Ludmer, Schuffer, Schteingart e Isaak), La industria textil-indumentaria en la Argentina del siglo XXI, 2023"
    ]
  ]
}