Foreign Garbage Clothing Has Been Banned Repeatedly. High Pressure Strikes Are Still Repeated.

At 6 in the morning, in a lane around the double lotus market in Jieshi Town, Lufeng, Guangdong, a private house next door opened the iron gate to prepare for the second-hand clothing retailers from all over the country. Behind each sluice gate is a "three in one" store with functions of living, processing and selling. Each shop has a very detailed division of labor, including short skirts, sweaters, coats and fur. Each store sells only one category. The shopkeeper bluntly stated that these were mainly old clothes imported from Japan and Korea.

Abroad Old clothes It is a solid waste prohibited by China and is also one of the key targets to crack down on illegal entry of foreign garbage. However, the economic reference Daily reporter recently visited Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi and other places, and found that illegal operation of foreign garbage clothing has become a "vigorous" development industry, covering a wide range, difficult to plug the source, the chain is difficult to detect. Due to lack of law enforcement basis, some local umbrellas have not been eliminated, and the effect of remediation has been limited for many years.

Jieshi: millions of people sell old clothes.

According to statistics from Shanwei customs bureau, there are more than 10000 people directly engaged in foreign garbage clothing business in Jieshi Town, with a population of 260 thousand.

The telegraph poles and walls of the lane around the double lane market in Jieshi town are posted everywhere. logistics And refurbishing old clothes. Several floors of some residential buildings have been opened up and transformed into special hotels that can handle cargo, accommodation and money storage. "Economic reference daily" reporters at the scene saw that all aspects of foreign garbage clothing business, there are special operators.

Jieshi town is located in the southern part of Lufeng City, Guangdong province. It is only 115 nautical miles away from Hongkong. Since the beginning of reform and opening up, some of the old clothes brought back from abroad by local people who have moved to Hongkong have been regarded as treasures, and are slowly developing from self use to processing and selling. The economic foundation of Jieshi town is weak, and the processing and sales of old clothing start up with little capital, low technical requirements, stable demand, and a large number of local idle labor force make a living, gradually forming a nationally known "professional" market.

Old clothing flows from Jieshi to all parts of the country. There are many such clothing stores in Zhu Zi Lane Community of Nanchang, Jiangxi. The price of old clothes ranges from 10 yuan to 200 yuan, and the price of fur is even up to 8000 yuan, which is several times that of the price of Jieshi. Entering the clothing store, even in winter, there was a musty smell coming up, and a pile of clothes were scattered on the floor, and the customers were among them, "Taobao".

Middle aged women are the main customers of these stores. They know that they are buying old clothes from abroad. However, they did not mind that these clothes were not cleaned and sterilized, and some people patronized their customers for more than ten years. Most of the shopkeepers do not shy away from selling old clothes, but do not worry about selling them. "Good style has been picked up in one or two days."

In the Kwun Tong market in Nanning, Guangxi, reporters also found many old ones. Clothing store The mouldy clothes are stacked on the ground and stuffed in sacks. Usually one style has only one piece, with obvious stains and stains, such as fades and pilling, and the price is as low as 10 yuan per piece, with a foreign trademark. Although the shopkeepers claimed that these costumes were "foreign trade tail goods", all the characteristics indicated that they were foreign garbage clothes.

According to a press survey, overseas clothing flows into China's market can be roughly divided into smuggling, entry, transshipment, processing and sales. In recent years, under the continuous high pressure strike of law enforcement departments, the smuggling and transportation routes of foreign garbage clothing are more changeable. Apart from the traditional direct shipping to the Lufeng town of Jieshi Town, Guangdong, Lufeng, there are cross regional lines such as "Vietnam - Guangzhou - Lufeng", "Hongkong Shenzhen (Huizhou) Lufeng", "Vietnam south Fujian Fujian" and so on. The chain is long, and the evidence chain is difficult to close, and it is difficult to investigate and deal with it.

Dilemma: high pressure strikes are still repeated.

The old clothing market in Jieshi town and other places has been repeatedly exposed by the media, and have been cleaned up for several rounds. But even under such high pressure strikes, Jieshi town is still a small number of flagrant shops.

According to the statistics of Shanwei customs, only one shop in Jieshi town manages more than 2000 stores of old clothing. Data from Lufeng's anti smuggling and industrial and commercial sectors showed that between 2013 and 2014, nearly 2000 times the local "three in one" store was cleared, and 158 shed and 13 warehouses were dismantled, and more than 4500 tons of old clothing were collected.

Under the pressure of high pressure, the old clothing market is still banned. On the eve of the Spring Festival, a shop owner told reporters that many stores had been temporarily closed because of the shortage of customers at the end of the year and the expiration of the lease. He suggested that they should come back after the Spring Festival.

Unlike other types of solid waste, old clothing imported from abroad is not used for refining raw materials or recycling, but directly enters the circulation sales link, and the threat to environment and people's health is concealed in the process. China's current laws and regulations do not prohibit the operation of second-hand clothing. Once the illegal entry of foreign garbage clothing, these old clothing market is often lack of law enforcement basis, deterrent force is insufficient.

According to the industrial and commercial departments of Lufeng, Nanchang and Xihu District, at present, the cleaning of the old clothing market can only be applied to industrial and commercial administration or urban management regulations. The main penalties are unlicensed or illegal construction, and penalties are mostly for goods or fines. "It is often said that the infringement of consumers' rights and interests is not authoritative." At the same time, because these "three in one" stores are mostly local houses, the law enforcement departments have no legal support for sealing up or rashly entering households. Similar law enforcement predicament exists everywhere in the old clothing retail market.

An old clothing operator in Jieshi town told the economic reference daily that the rent of a "three in one" store is around twenty thousand yuan a year, and "one shop can earn more than ten thousand a year". On the one hand, the deterrent power of administrative punishment is insufficient, and on the other hand, the temptation of economic benefits is not good enough, leading to the fact that these foreign garbage clothing stores are always difficult to be rooted out.

Mystery: "the younger brother of the deputy director of the industrial and commercial institute" also sells the old suit.

Some warehouse owners and shop operators repeatedly told reporters who had conducted an unannounced visit. They did not need to worry about doing the old clothing business. "We haven't done anything for decades." "smuggling and business checking up the big warehouse and asking for money, so they moved from the town to the nearby village."

In the interview, the reporter learned that illegal operation of the old clothing chain still exists today or "umbrella", and its repeated prohibition is also related to the unsteadfast attitude, unsteadfast stance and ineffective measures. The head of customs and other departments suggested that while investigating and dealing with illegal clothing cases, we should further dig into illegal and criminal acts such as power and money transactions, dereliction of duty and dereliction of duty.

In the streets of Jieshi Town, the economic reference daily asked a number of motorcycles to buy old clothes. They drove reporters to the warehouse near the village for a few minutes. After the "passenger" telephone contact, the owner rushed to open the warehouse door for reporters. In the dark brick houses, there are hundreds of packages of foreign garbage clothes, each weighing up to 100 kilograms.

A shopkeeper said: "in order to deal with the law enforcement inspection, stores are mostly open from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m., and the whistle gates of the 9 industrial and commercial offices are closed. As long as you lock the gates and do anything inside, he doesn't care. Another shopkeeper told reporters that a deputy director of the industrial and commercial institute was checking the old clothing store every day, but the younger brother of the deputy director was selling the old suit.

According to our current laws and regulations, illegal dumping and stacking of solid waste imported into the country can be punished. However, a reporter's examination of the open referee found that in the past two years, under the pressure of high pressure, no owner or worker of a warehouse was punished by the criminal law. Since 2013, only 3 people have been convicted of illegal disposal of foreign garbage in Lufeng, of which 2 are provincial truck drivers who are employed to transport old clothing, and 1 are Lufeng motorcycle drivers. The reporter interviewed the person in charge of the smuggling office in Lufeng on these occasions. The other party said, "some warehouses are not large enough to reach the standard of transfer to justice, and some warehouse owners have been told that they have not been arrested."

Lufeng's smuggling office also said that since 2013, 4 city level cadres have been removed from their duties due to the failure to combat outworn clothing, including the former Secretary and mayor of Jieshi town.