# Bangkok Post - Customs urged to act on sticky rice smugglers

> Thailand's Internal Trade Department is urging customs and border officers to crack down on smuggling of unmilled glutinous rice from Vietnam via Cambodia. Glutinous rice fetches up to 12,000 baht per tonne in Thailand, about 4,000 baht above neighbouring countries. Officials warn that contraband flooding could depress domestic prices.

- Date: 2019-06-09 · published 2019-06-09T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: trade · region Thailand · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/58661-bangkok-post-customs-urged-to-act-on-sticky-rice-smugglers
- Commodities: [Rough Rice](https://feedsoft.ai/c/RICE.md)

## Why it matters

Smuggling is a niche domestic issue for glutinous rice that has little bearing on global feed grain or rice benchmark prices.

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RICE | 2017-05-30 | [Bangkok Post - Demand surge to lift rice price](https://feedsoft.ai/events/71082-bangkok-post-demand-surge-to-lift-rice-price.md) | +0.6% | +1.9% |
| RICE | 2019-06-12 | [Bangkok Post - Eyes on Africa, China strides into rice arena](https://feedsoft.ai/events/58660-bangkok-post-eyes-on-africa-china-strides-into-rice-arena.md) | -0.1% | +0.7% |
| RICE | 2021-01-25 | [Bangkok Post - Vietnam's clever rice strategy](https://feedsoft.ai/events/49244-bangkok-post-vietnam-s-clever-rice-strategy.md) | +1.4% | -2.9% |
| RICE | 2018-09-28 | [VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Facebook post linking LP to P300M worth of smuggled rice has NO BASIS - VERA Files](https://feedsoft.ai/events/12055-vera-files-fact-check-facebook-post-linking-lp-to-p300m-worth-of-smuggled-rice.md) | +10.2% | +10.3% |
| RICE | 2018-11-01 | [Bangkok Post - Thailand eyes new rice sales in push to 11m-tonne target](https://feedsoft.ai/events/62118-bangkok-post-thailand-eyes-new-rice-sales-in-push-to-11m-tonne-target.md) | +1.1% | +3.2% |

## Sources

- bangkokpost.com: https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/1692164/customs-urged-to-act-on-sticky-rice-smugglers

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