"Foreign Garbage" Industrial Chain Is Another Threat To China's Environment.

From Vietnam, it was smuggled into the territory of Guangdong and transported to Shanwei, Shanwei by the South China Sea. clothing Smuggling from the entry, transportation to processing complete "industrial chain", recently by the Guangdong customs anti smuggling Department cracked and surfaced. Among them, 24 suspects were involved, and 749 tons of old clothes were seized.

Yesterday morning, the customs Guangdong branch held the General Administration's special campaign against smuggling and joint media briefing. At the meeting, the detailed case of the "401" Gang smuggling old clothes was reported. It is reported that in from August 27th to 28th this year, under the unified command of the smuggling Bureau of the General Administration of customs, the smuggling Bureau of the Guangdong branch coordinated the Guangzhou, Nanning and Shantou Customs Smuggling bureaus and successfully cracked them with local law enforcement departments.

According to the introduction, in February this year, in order to safeguard the national ecological environment safety and the health of the people and build a beautiful China, the General Administration of Customs launched a special action to strengthen the supervision and control of imported solid waste and smuggling "foreign garbage" in the national customs. Among them, the state strictly prohibits the import of "old" clothes This is the typical "foreign garbage".

Forming professional handling chain

"Under the high pressure of smuggling" foreign garbage ", the tactics adopted by criminals have become more and more concealed, presenting new characteristics. For example, through piecewise implementation, cross border cross area "roundabout" smuggling, chain division of labor is clear, professional operation, strong anti detection capability. Like this case, we only looked at two from the middle link. Chen Jianwen, deputy director of the Guangdong branch and director of the anti smuggling Bureau, said.

On April 1st and 3 this year, the customs of Nanhai customs of Guangzhou Customs seized 2 batches of old clothes without legal origin in Foshan, a total of 230 tons. Taking this as an opportunity, customs officers went deep into the investigation, followed by a trail of the smuggling of old clothes by "Vietnam Guangdong, Guangxi", which appeared before the customs anti smuggling police.

Subsequently, the Customs Smuggling police overcome numerous difficulties in cross border and cross regional investigation and evidence collection. After 5 months, the case management made a major breakthrough. A gang of smugglers smuggled from Vietnam, Shanwei, Guangdong, and Vietnam through the South China Sea to Foshan, Guangdong.

After investigation, Huang and others first ordered old clothes from South Korea through an import and export trading company in Guangzhou, then shipped them to Vietnam's Mango Street through a foreign trade company in Vietnam. They were waiting for the smuggling gang composed of Liao and others to wait for the old clothes to be smuggled into the territory of Guangxi from the border between China and Vietnam, and then organized by Yang and others to transport large trucks to Guangdong and the South China Sea. Finally, they were transported to Guangdong Jieshi by land.

After these old clothes were transported to Jieshi Town, Shanwei, after sorting, washing, ironing and packaging, some of the relatively clean old clothes went directly to the domestic market through the hands of illegal traders. Some of the broken clothes were sold out to some illegal factories, and buttons and zippers were sold to the waste recycling enterprises.

Thunder strikes three places to join hands

In view of the serious case, the case was one of the targeted cases supervised by the smuggling Bureau of the General Administration of customs. In August 27th, a triple crossing of two provinces was launched, and a joint strike against the smuggling chain of "old clothes" smuggling, entry, transportation and processing was launched.

At 2 a.m. on August 28th, the customs and anti smuggling Bureau of Guangzhou, Nanning and Shantou, together with 330 local law enforcement departments, jointly launched a joint arrest and search for suspects and target sites in Guangzhou, Nanning and Shanwei three places. By the end of the 7 day operation, 24 suspects were arrested, and the smuggling gang of old clothes hidden in Guangdong and Guangxi was taken away. Among them, 16 suspects were captured in the Guangdong area, and 519 tons of old clothes were smuggled in two transshipment warehouses in Foshan area. Up to now, the customs anti smuggling department is making every effort to organize the sudden trial and investigation and evidence collection work, striving to further expand the fruits of victory and break through the whole case as soon as possible.

Located in Jieshi Town, Lufeng City, Shanwei, Guangdong, it is known as the "foreign garbage" clothing wholesale center. Why illegal processing and smuggling of old clothing will form a "chain" here? Meng Jun, deputy director of Guangdong provincial anti smuggling office, said that this is closely related to local fishing, small handicraft industry, lack of main economic pillars, lack of jobs, and the weak concept of people's legal system. The provincial anti smuggling office has organized several special crackdown activities to carry out carpet cleaning and checking of illegal clothing establishments and storage sites of old clothing. 272 stores and 2667.8 tons of old clothes have been cleaned up.

Meng Jun said that the successful seizure of the "401" project and the frequent raids and inspections by local governments made the illegal processing and operation of old clothing in the Jieshi area significantly curbed. But he also pointed out that to prevent the problem of smuggling old clothes from "revival", we need to strengthen the legal concept education among the public, help local develop new industries and accelerate economic transformation.

Solid waste is not equivalent to "foreign garbage".

How to identify "foreign garbage"?

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Solid waste is not equivalent to "foreign garbage".

According to customs officials, "solid waste" and "foreign garbage" are two different concepts. China implements classified management of imported "solid waste" and divides it into prohibition, restriction and automatic licensing. Only solid wastes, such as waste slag, waste catalysts, waste tires, waste batteries, electronic wastes, and other industrial wastes such as waste slag, waste batteries, electronic waste, old clothing, construction waste, domestic waste, medical waste and hazardous waste, are commonly referred to as "foreign garbage".

It is understood that the smuggling of old clothes is a complex source. Most of them are old clothes that are discarded abroad. They are mainly collected from rubbish dumps and waste treatment plants abroad. These smuggled imported old clothes are sold illegally in China after simple washing and ironing. Many of them are still stained obviously, and there are a large number of bacteria, which may become the source of infection of many diseases. Long term exposure to these clothes can cause people to be infected with various skin diseases or other diseases. Some bacteria may also cause large scale epidemics, which seriously threaten the public health safety in China. It has long been banned and imported by government authorities. However, in order to gain illegal profits and ignore the health of the citizens and the public health and safety of the state, the lawbreakers have tried to evade the supervision of customs and related departments. They have bought the old clothes that are garbage disposal from abroad at a low price, smuggled into the country through smuggling, and sold them separately for a few yuan, tens of dollars or even more than 100 yuan after sorting and refurbishing.

[Customs tips]

How to identify "foreign garbage"?

There is a saying on the Internet: "if a dress in a small shop is of a fancy style, and the owner also says that this version is not good enough, even if it can not get second pieces, and no one else will bump into your shirt, then you have to be careful if it is renovated."

Is the fact that this is not so terrible? For this reason, the customs reminds the general public that the imported old garments appearing on the market are all "foreign garbage", which have been smuggled into China without inspection and quarantine. Identifying smuggled old clothes can focus on the following aspects:

One is to check the color of the clothes. Most of the buttons and zippers on the old clothes are not glossy and the metal coating is falling off. The trademarks, the washing labels, the curls, the numbers and specifications are blurred and yellowed, and the cuffs, necklines and armpits are worn or pilling. Some clothes have stains which are difficult to remove.

Two is to distinguish the taste of clothing, most of the old clothing smell.

The three is that the style of imported old clothes usually appears in a single piece. There are very few identical styles and models. In addition, old clothes have no tag and certificates. In a few old clothes pockets, personal names or other personal belongings are also found.

A total of 33 thousand and 500 tons of foreign garbage were seized nationwide.

From 7 to August, 143 cases of smuggling and criminal cases were jointly established by Guangdong customs, with a value of 6 billion 685 million yuan.

At the beginning of this year, in order to safeguard the national ecological environment safety and the health of the people and build a beautiful China, the National Customs Organization launched special actions to strengthen the supervision and control of imported solid waste and crack down on "foreign garbage" smuggling. With the concerted efforts of relevant departments, this year, the Customs has put in place 54 cases of smuggling of prohibited entry categories, seized 33 thousand and 500 tons of "foreign garbage" such as waste batteries, waste slag, waste coatings, waste tyres and old clothes, and filed 90 cases of smuggling restrictions on entry solid waste by using other people's licenses to verify smuggled waste plastics, waste paper, scrap metals, and waste. Spin The product is 923 thousand tons.

In addition, the operation also focused on smuggling endangered species and their products and illegal Internet trade through freight, travel inspection, post office, express mail and other channels. Since July, 35 cases of smuggling and endangered species crime have been investigated by the customs, and 5 tons of ivory, rhino horn and antelope horn have been seized, involving 358 million yuan.

In addition, since July this year, in accordance with the decision of the State Council, the General Administration of customs, together with the 10 departments, including the Ministry of industry, the Ministry of public security, the Ministry of environmental protection, the General Administration of Taxation, the General Administration of industry and commerce, the general Administration of quality inspection and quarantine, the General Administration of press and publication, the food and drug administration, the forestry bureau and the Oceanic Bureau, organized a six-year large-scale struggle against smuggling and joint action nationwide to crack down on all kinds of smuggling and criminal activities and comprehensively punish smuggling problems.

From July to August this year, 2755 cases of smuggling were jointly established by the Guangdong customs, with a value of 514 million yuan and a tax amounting to 32 million 300 thousand yuan. 143 cases of smuggling were committed, with a value of 6 billion 685 million yuan and 1 billion 525 million yuan of tax involved. Since July (as of September 15th, the same customs), 406 customs cases have been investigated for smuggling crimes, with a value of 10 billion 20 million yuan and a 1 billion 970 million yuan tax evasion. Compared with the same period last year, they increased by 10.6%, 1.4 times and 2.7 times respectively. Among them, there were 187 tax related cases and 219 non tax related cases.

Specifically, since the beginning of this year, the customs have investigated and prosecuted 6118 cases of excessive import and export of money, and the value of the case was 1 billion 70 million yuan, of which 4281 had been seized from the outbound link, and the value of the case was 550 million yuan. 1837 cases were imported and the value of the case was 520 million yuan.

In combating the smuggling of arms and ammunition, up to now, the customs have seized 5 cases of smuggling of arms and ammunition, seized 15 guns, 27 simulated guns and 800 rounds of ammunition.

There are 4185 cases in which the customs report is false (affecting tax rebates), and the value of the case is 5 billion 170 million yuan, involving a tax rebate of 410 million yuan. At the same time, it sent a large number of clues to the crime of fraud.