Its not to far a jump for themind to conceive that with starships, smuggling might become more feasable. I mean realistickly unless you are smuggling in mass what is the trip really going to be worth. Of course there is always smuggling information or smaller illegal items, but that is what general mission terminals and Rebels are for, not smugglers.
Believe me I want you to be able to smuggle, but I wouldn't be looking for it untill after the Starship/space component is added.
-The only reason they made it illegal
is because they couldn't tax it-