China ratchets up crackdown on cross-border e-commerce smuggling


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A crane loads containers at Erenhot Port in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region on April 11, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING -- China has intensified its crackdown on smuggling via cross-border e-commerce, the country's customs authority said Thursday. Customs across the nation handled 79 such cases last year, involving 10.49 billion yuan (about $1.62 billion), said Sun Zhijie, an official with the General Administration of Customs, at a press conference. In these cases, smugglers usually used forged transaction certificates and stole consumer identities to enjoy preferential tariff and tax rates. Ten typical cases of smuggling in 2020 were presented at the...