4.1. TEXT ANALYSIS
Read the text and find the words and phrases that refer to cell phone and imported.
MOBILE PHONES IN VIETNAM
Mobile telephone companies have been
pushing the government of Vietnam to
drop taxes to help fight the huge trade in
smuggled handsets. They argue that
reducing taxes will make legally imported
phones more attractive than the cheaper
smuggled models. Consumers can save
about forty dollars by buying what many
call "a hand luggage phone" carried into the country tax free. They're often sold
by the same shops which stock the legally imported model.
The telecoms ministry says that last year there were more than seven hundred
thousand phones sold in Vietnam. Two thirds of them had been smuggled in. But
Nokia, which sells some of the most popular phones, estimates that figure has
jumped. Company officials say that even more smugglers have entered the market,
since the principals of a major distributor, Dong Nam Associates, were prosecuted
for a multi-million dollar tax fraud.
(From BBC Learning English)
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Notes:
smuggled
– when someone takes people or things illegally or secretly from one place to another
tax free
– you do riot have to pay any money on the goods that provide a country with public
services
estimate
– give an approximate calculation
figure
– number
the market
– the number of people who want to buy something
distributor
– a person, company or organisation that supplies goods or provisions to shops,
businesses or countries
fraud
– gaining money by deceit
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