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…
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…
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…
The British government faces paying a hefty charge to the EU after the European court of justice ruled it had been negligent in allowing criminal gangs to flood European markets with cheap Chinese-made clothes and shoes. Publishing its final ruling on Tuesday, the court concluded that the UK as a member state had “failed to…
Post-Brexit physical border checks on animal and plant-based goods imported to the UK from July will be introduced on a staggered basis, The Grocer can reveal. The government confirmed the SPS (sanitary and phytosanitary) import controls would be introduced on a phased basis from 1 July in a bid to ensure both businesses and border…
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…
BEIJING :China’s customs authorities said on Tuesday they will accept import applications for Brazilian beef that has been granted a sanitary certificate prior to Sept. 4, potentially allowing for cargoes of beef stuck at Chinese ports to finally clear customs. Brazil had suspended exports of beef to China on Sept. 4 after detecting two cases…
BEIJING :Saudi Arabia held its position as the biggest supplier of crude oil to China for an 11th month in a row in October, with volumes up 19.5per cent from a year ago, customs data showed on Sunday. Saudi oil arrivals totalled 7.1 million tonnes, or 1.67 million barrels per day (bpd), data from the…
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…
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…
