Online Interview
Topic: Crackdown on Smuggling – about Customs Anti-Smuggling Stories of 2013
Time:03:00 PM (Wed) March 12, 2014
Special Guests:Chen Jianxin, Deputy Director General of the Anti-Smuggling Bureau, the GACC
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Crackdown on Smuggling – about Customs Anti-Smuggling Stories of 2013
[Chen Jianxin]: Usually they sold the smuggled goods through establishing physical stores in Ningbo and Shenzhen or Taobao online stores, and even hired professional accountants to carefully disguise the transaction accounts, attempting to avoid supervision. However, justice has long arms. They were finally destroyed under the joint action of Shenzhen Customs and Ningbo Customs. 03/12/2014 15:30:52
[Wang Hua]: When you buy electronic products, please remember that Customs are determined in cracking down on “parallel traders”. Do not challenge the law and believe the illegal business publicity to buy the so-called “smuggled goods”. 03/12/2014 15:31:12
[Chen Jianxin]: Yes. Those electronic products enter domestic market through smuggling, which causes big loss on national taxes and seriously affects the normal business order of domestic market. This unfair competition also impacts the development of the law-abiding enterprises at home. 03/12/2014 15:31:30
[Chen Jianxin]: Uncertified electronic products are not provided with after-sale service and some smuggled goods themselves are overseas second-hand products from unknown sources. Upon entry into China, they are renovated and claimed as new and with good quality. But no guaranty is provided for the quality, which eventually will damage the interests of the consumers themselves. 03/12/2014 15:31:49
[Wang Hua]: Mr. Chen, you just mentioned that the places with frequent smuggling activities in China are “drifting” from southeast coastal regions to southwest and northeast borders, and even to inland regions. I noticed that many out of the ten major cases just happened in those areas. For instance, the smuggled used clothes we talked about just now were transported secretly into China from the northwest border, and another two cases also happened in this region. They are the case of smuggling imported frozen marine products detected in Kunming, Yunnan Province and the case of rice smuggling in Nanning, Guangxi. So would you please brief us in this regard? 03/12/2014 15:32:08
[Chen Jianxin]: The smuggling case in Kunming was carried out through fair among the inhabitants of border areas by the smuggling gang. It involved 13,000 tons of frozen seafood and 12 suspects were arrested. 03/12/2014 15:32:37
[Chen Jianxin]: In recent years, this kind of cases, where the smugglers take advantage of the border trade to smuggle various kinds of agricultural products and foods, are on the rise. The State formulates border trade policies to facilitate the production and life of inhabitants there and promote the economic development in border areas. 03/12/2014 15:32:54
[Chen Jianxin]: However, some smugglers have taken advantage of these policies. They rent the certificates of border residence from the inhabitants at the boarders. Then these smugglers divide the batches of goods into small portions and declare to the Customs after disguising the goods as permitted goods for border trade. Later, they smuggle these goods in batches into China and sell them for profits. Their activities completely go against the original purpose of the state policy to prosper the border areas and the border residents, and disturb the normal economic and living order in the border areas. 03/12/2014 15:33:21
[Wang Hua]: And what about the rice smuggling case in Nanning? 03/12/2014 15:33:38
[Chen Jianxin]: In that case, the rice was smuggled through non-customs checkpoints along the Sino-Vietnamese border. More than 20,000 tons of rice was seized and the smuggling gang of 12 members was arrested. That case is still under investigation at the moment. 03/12/2014 15:34:06