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Urumqi Customs seized smuggled 400 tons of rice exports

Toilet paper, gypsum board in the bag ready to smuggling of rice! Alataw Pass Customs officers seized one夹藏smuggling 97 tons of rice. At this point, Urumqi Customs seized smuggled out of rice this year to reach 400 tons.
Urumqi Customs and Excise Department for the current international market, higher food prices, food smuggling ports in Xinjiang is "蚂蚁搬家-style" characteristics, strengthen the first-line supervision to crack down on food smuggling activities achieved remarkable results. Urumqi, according to Customs statistics, in the first half of 2008, the Customs seized a total of rice and other food exports 37 cases of smuggling, and seized smuggled exports of 305.4 tons of rice and other food. Of which 302.68 tons of smuggled rice exports, 5.52 tons of flour, 0.2 tons of edible oil.
Urumqi Customs, according to analysis, the current ports in Xinjiang smuggling food exports following characteristics: First, the smuggling of grain exports are mostly transported personnel serving staff, mainly the use of vehicles out maintenance, refueling time, such as rice夹藏in the cab, toolbox and body dark car and covered with daily necessities and other commodities, each hiding a small number, some 100 kilograms of only a few shows, "蚂蚁搬家" type characteristics. The second is the smuggling of food more frequently focused on the port Kyrgyzstan Turugart,伊尔克Stancel crossings, ports卡拉苏to Tajikistan and Mongolia塔克什肯ports. Among them, from Turugart and Stancel伊尔克port seized 10 cases of smuggling of rice, 126 tons of rice seized; ready to卡拉苏port smuggling cases Tajikistan 4, the seized rice, flour,清油such as food 56 tons; in Mongolia塔克什肯ports grain smuggling cases and seized 4, the smuggling of rice, flour, 21.2 tons, more than the total seized about 94 percent of smuggled food. In addition, a small number of enterprises have also taken more reporting, or pseudo-reported cases of under-reporting, such as rice mixed in other export goods smuggling attempt. For example, June 6, Urumqi Customs seized false name for the department's 2450 bags of rice, for a total of 60.9 tons. June 18, the Customs Seized Stancel伊尔克owned by a company agent undeclared 30 tons of rice, rice, cement packaging bags for packing are used camouflage.
According to analysis, this year, starting January 1 of some countries in the food products in the elimination of export tax rebate at the same time, 57 of wheat and other product would be levied 5-25 percent export tariffs and the tentative implementation of quota management. Food products as a result of domestic and foreign markets larger post, a small number of staff find ways to customs supervision on food exports are facing new risks. To this end, Urumqi Customs asked to take full advantage of the Customs port of food exports of the new trends in smuggling activities, and effectively strengthen supervision of food exports and strictly enforce food-exporting countries levy tariffs and license management policies, and resolutely prevent the smuggling of grain exports behavior.

2008-07-18