Serious Misreporting Of Imported Textile Products In Columbia

According to the statistics of 1-2 months in 2013, 43% of such imports were from mainland China (17% from the United States, 14% from India, 6% from Taiwan, 5% from Indonesia, 5% from Mexico, 4% from Ecuador, 3% from Peru, 3% from Brazil). Costa Rica imports about 1 billion 170 million US dollars from mainland China every year. It only imports from mainland China and Panama and has only 300 million dollars registered in customs. That is, the import of Costa Rica. Textile products Only 25% of the cases were declared normal, while up to 75% of them were all reported seriously.

According to the law, the price of imported garments is even lower than that of cloth or yarn. In 2012, the customs statistics of Costa Rica showed that the port of Costa Rica imported cloth The average landed price (CIF) was 6.67 US dollars /KG, while the CIF price of the imported garments of up to 58% was only 7 US dollars /KG. Customs data also showed that imported garments were declared CIF1.6 US dollars /KG, lower than the price of imported cotton cloth.

According to the data of 11 importers of the 36% countries (weighing), the average import price of yarns is CIF 2.43/KG, and the average import price of fabrics is CIF5.28 US dollars /KG. yarn About 2% of the imports of cloth and the declared price is less than 2 US dollars /KG, and the average declared price in 2012 is US $3.81 /KG.

The customs and Excise Department has also set up a set of reference price databases for textile products. Each batch of imports is found to have a large discrepancy with the price of the database, and the import survey will be initiated. However, the customs also said that it was difficult to investigate the low reported products. If the foreign suppliers confirmed that they would supply the goods at that low price, the customs would have no evidence to investigate again. Whether these low reported import cases are related to money laundering, the customs is very complicated and needs to be investigated jointly with financial institutions.

The rule No. 0074 of 2013 was a mixed tariff law designed to threaten domestic imports. Spin Industry provides protection.

According to the PORTAFOLIO report of Columbia economic and financial daily, the Ministry of Commerce and tourism of Gore proposed to amend the idea of regulation No. 074 of 2013, but caused great dissatisfaction in Costa Rica textile industry. Brother country Textile Association It was proposed that the Made in U.S.A. garments were purchased in the market of the Costa Rica. The guild said that the American spinning garments enjoy the preferential treatment of Gomi FTA to enter the kingdom of Costa Rica, but it is well known that such products are all produced in mainland China. The government asked the Komo government to investigate carefully to avoid spinning the products produced in mainland China by tri angle trade, and to enjoy the FTA signed by various countries and enter the kingdom of Costa Rica.