Challenges for supporting domestic products highlighted by smuggling precaution in Bandar Abbas

One of the important issues in an economic warfare is the attention to domestic products. To support the country's development and economic growth, governments often adopt supportive policies to support the domestic industries, especially the new ones. While smuggling goods and entering similar foreign products makes it difficult for the domestic market to compete, it has even led to the closure and downturn of industrial activities. In this paper, the documentary-descriptive method has been used to assess the challenges of supporting domestic products with an emphasis on smuggling prevention. In the end, it was concluded that since ancient times a special position has been taken in Iran's criminal-legislative policy towards confronting smuggling. But inadequacy and harmfulness of crackdown on goods and currency smugglers led the legislator to adopt preventive measures. In this regard, Chapter II of the Anti-Smuggling Goods and Currency Act has been allocated to prevent crime. But the implementation of these measures has been accompanied by various challenges that have been mentioned in this study.