The online conference was held by the Government’s Anti-Crime Steering Committee (Steering Committee 138) and the National Steering Committee for Combating Smuggling, Trade Fraud and Counterfeit Goods (Steering Committee 389). The Deputy PM highlighted the significant socio-economic achievements in 2017, including the fulfilment of all of the 13 set economic targets, in addition to stabilising politics and security and improving social welfare. However, there were also many unsolved inadequacies, including a cumbersome and inefficient apparatus, unqualified civil servants, and complicated developments in crime, smuggling, trade frauds and counterfeit goods, the Deputy PM noted. The government leader emphasised the important role of the two Steering Committees in detecting, preventing and handling crimes and acts of smuggling and commerce fraud. He also called for joint efforts to find solutions to a number of pressing issues of great concern, including human trafficking, cybercrimes, corruption, child abuse and violence, smuggling, trade fraud, and intellectual property violations, among others. According to the Steering Committee 389, more than 225,830 cases of violations were discovered in 2017, up 1.15% compared to 2016, through which over VND23.1 trillion (US$1.02 billion) was reclaimed for the State budget, up 7.17% against 2016.
The Border Guard will work with other forces in the fight against smuggling, trade fraud and fake commodities. (Photo for illustration) As a result, the Vietnam Border Guard Command was asked to instruct its units to cooperate with other relevant forces, including public security, coast guard, customs, local authorities and organizations to keep informed of the situations in localities, border areas and at sea to discover and deal with violations in a timely manner.Translated by Tran Hoai... [read more]
Mr Nguyen Van Can, Deputy General Director of the General Department of Vietnam Customs, said commercial fraudulence and counterfeiting developed more complicatedly in the first 10 months and was forecast to be more complex in the several months ahead of the Lunar New Year. Therefore, the National Steering Committee 389 required relevant units to act more firmly and more effectively to push back trade fraud and counterfeiting. Over 1,000 criminal cases pursued Before complicated development in smuggling and trade fraud across the country, the Government’s Resolution 41/NQ-CP on intensified steps in the fight against smuggling, commercial fraud and counterfeiting has…... [read more]
The national steering committee against smuggling, trade fraud and counterfeit (Steering Committee 389) has reported that 12,000 smuggling and trade fraud cases were penalised over the first six months of 2017, an increase of 1,000 cases compared to the same period of 2016.
A Hà Nội market management official checks goods that were seized as part of a smuggling case in June.-Photo vov.vn
The figures indicate that smuggling and trade fraud in Hà Nội has become more complicated and the fight against the crime remains very difficult,…... [read more]
VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City plans to step up enforcement against smuggling and trade fraud to cope with the increasing number of violations, especially at Cat Lai Port in HCM City. HCM City authorities seize containers of smuggled air conditioners and other electronic goods. A number of smuggling cases have taken place at international ports, especially at Cat Lai Port, the country’s largest international container port. Since early 2015, the Customs Department has detected nearly 500 smuggling and trade fraud cases at Cat Lai Port. In 2015, there were 165 cases, and 206 cases in 2016. In addition, there were…... [read more]
A number of smuggling cases have taken place at international ports, especially at Cát Lái Port, the country’s largest international container port.
Since early 2015, the Customs Department has detected nearly 500 smuggling and trade fraud cases at Cát Lái Port.
In 2015, there were 165 cases, and 206 cases in 2016. In addition, there were 107 cases in the first half of this year.
At the port border corridor area, the HCM City Border Guard force has uncovered five cases since January, including the smuggling of goods worth up to billions of Vietnamese đồng.
According to the Customs Control…... [read more]
