Customs steps up to ensure quick clearance of imports

Imported supplies such as vegetables, fruit, milk, milk powder and beef have been quickly cleared and transferred during the ongoing COVID-19 resurgence in Shanghai, according to Shanghai Customs. A cargo of pumpkins from New Zealand, weighing 25.6 tons, passed through customs smoothly at Waigaoqiao port area after quarantine inspection on March 29. In addition, the…

Trading firm director convicted of illegally importing 1,787 elephant tusks into Singapore.

Dao Thi Boi, 40, was found guilty of importing a scheduled species without a permit She had not taken all reasonable precautions or exercised all due diligence before helping her client with his shipment in 2018, a judge found The shipment was found to contain almost 1,800 pieces of elephant ivory She will return to…

UK exchequer may have lost up to £30bn of VAT via non-declarations

There could be upwards of 100 million customs declarations not made post-implementation, according to head of international trade and customs at Fujitsu, Frank Dunsmuir. Fujitsu hosts the CHIEF customs declaration system. He told The Loadstar that “easily around £30bn” of VAT had been lost due to HMRC’s six-month (175-day) delay on declarations for goods imported between 1…

Director of freight company fined S$105,000 for offences, including evading GST

  SINGAPORE: A freight forwarding company director was fined S$105,000 last week for fraudulently evading the payment of Goods and Services Tax (GST), as well as for abetting a consignee to furnish false information to Singapore Customs. Tang Yong Hoe, 43, is the sole director of I-Do Logistics, Singapore Customs said in a news release…

Company Incurs $6 Million Penalty for Export of Controlled Software and Technical Data

21 September 2021 – A recent export enforcement case describes a common compliance challenge faced by many U.S. companies. In this case,[1] a California company manufactured electronic test and measurement equipment for both commercial and government customers. The company failed to identify that one of its software products was listed on the U.S. Munitions List and…

Customs finds cabinet importers evaded Chinese duties by transshipping through Malaysia

21 September 2021 – U.S. Customs and Border Protection has found that a group of cabinet importers is evading antidumping and countervailing duty orders on Chinese products by transshipping them through Malaysia. The story begins in April 2020, when the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association won one of the largest anti-dumping cases ever brought against China. The ITC unanimously found…