"Foreign Garbage" Profiteering: 1 Kilograms Of Clothing Dozens Of Stores Earn More Than Ten Thousand A Year

In the early morning of June 13th, the Shantou customs of Guangdong carried out a search operation and destroyed 5 solid waste smuggling and entry groups in one fell swoop. According to the preliminary verification, since October 2014, Liang and Zheng and other cargo collection customs groups have been using other solid waste import licenses. They have reported false reports of smuggled waste plastics, waste metals and other solid wastes for a number of domestic shippers in a plastic factory in Longhu District of Shantou. The goods involved are about 85 thousand tons, with a value of up to 1 billion yuan. In April this year, the thirty-fourth meeting of the leading group of the comprehensive deepening reform of the central government deliberated and adopted the implementation plan for the prohibition of the entry of foreign garbage into the solid waste import management system reform. Recently, many customs offices in China have seized many cases of smuggling of foreign garbage. "Xinhua viewpoint" reporters in many interviews found that "foreign garbage" governance is still facing complex and grim situation.

High pressure strikes repeatedly investigate "foreign garbage" case

Solid waste smuggling is harmful and difficult to handle. According to Lin Hai, director of the logistics monitoring section of Sha Tin office in Whampoa, the solid waste from abroad mainly includes two categories, one is recycled resources such as scrap metal and waste plastics, and the other is the import license management. The two is waste slag, old clothing, construction waste and other solid waste which can not be used as resources or may be used as raw materials, but it does not meet the environmental standards. It is commonly known as "foreign garbage".

Since the end of last year, Guangdong has seized 11870 tons of smelting slag and some domestic waste, Zhejiang has seized more than 3000 tons of electrolytic aluminum anode carbon blocks, and Dalian has seized more than 1000 tons of smuggled solid waste, and Xiamen has seized 500 tons of old clothing from Korea. Customs Smuggling departments in various parts of China have continued to encirclement and smuggle many foreign smuggling cases.

According to the General Administration of customs, in the second battle of joint operation on solid waste smuggling launched in March 17th this year, 12 customs offices directly under the national government cracked 17 suspected smuggling gangs, and initially verified 28 thousand tons of smuggled solid waste.

Many "foreign garbage" will be distributed by illegal elements to small workshops which do not have processing qualification, resulting in serious damage to the ecological environment in many places. In addition, "foreign garbage" will pose a threat to the safety of consumers.

In March 3rd this year, Shantou customs and Lufeng public security, border defense, smuggling, business and other departments destroyed a smuggled old clothing store in Jieshi town. Up to 96 tons of imported old clothes were bundled up with rusty iron wire, and the English letters on the bags were clearly visible. According to Shantou customs official told reporters that these old clothes are not only unknown origin, and without quarantine, disinfection, once the market will not only cause pollution to the environment, but also to consumers' health and life.

In the case of 85 thousand tons of solid waste seized in Shantou customs in June 13th, the early operation of the illegal elements showed that the solid waste coming through illegal means had been processed through simple processing, and became the daily necessities of slippers, stools, toys, lunch boxes, tableware, straws and so on, which lurked the risk of health and safety.

Selling clothing "foreign garbage" earn tens of thousands every year

"Foreign garbage" huge profits amazing. Reporters previously interviewed in Jieshi town of Lufeng learned that illegal "foreign garbage" in the old clothing trade in good quality according to the wholesale, the difference on the "catty", 1 kilograms of clothing tens of dollars, 1 pieces of clothes several yuan, to the store to buy a price of ten yuan, equivalent to a turn the price doubled, some stores can earn more than ten million a year.

In February this year, the Guangzhou customs investigated a case of "foreign garbage", suspected of smuggling into the territory of about 800 tons of electronic waste more than 40 counters, the case value exceeded 100 million yuan; in March this year, Xiamen customs in a private action, the staff seized the state limit import plastic waste more than 2000 tons, initially estimated cases involving more than 60 million yuan.

Behind the repeated prohibition of "foreign garbage" is the "black interest chain" of illegal reselling and transfer of import licenses for solid waste. The reselling of "indicators" has become an amazing business.

The reporter learned from the relevant departments that in the case of a "foreign garbage" sale in Southeast China, the investigators found that since 2015, the two enterprises have purchased about 18 thousand tons of import waste plastic approval criteria from another chemical enterprise with license qualification at the price of about 80 yuan per ton, and the illegal transfer party made nearly 1 million 500 thousand yuan.

In a solid waste smuggling case filed in March this year, the suspect explained that the actual consignee purchased plastic waste abroad, and then imported from a trade limited company with a license to a customs department with a non-woven products company. After the goods were released, they were transported to the actual consignee. The two companies charged the actual consignee the "customs clearance fee" ranging from 700 yuan to 800 yuan per ton.

Investigators said: "the suspect also explained that if the import quota is not enough this year, the environmental protection department will reduce the import quota according to the actual import volume of the previous year, so the enterprise will take the risk to make profits with these indicators."

China promulgated and implemented the "solid waste import management measures" in 2011. The import solid waste supervision work is mainly undertaken by five departments, including customs, inspection and quarantine, environmental protection, business, development and reform. However, some places do not effectively monitor the actual flow of goods after the importation of solid waste. Whether the goods are processed in the processing factory after the import of the license is only confirmed by photographs.

A department of the eastern coastal province recently investigated and dealt with a chemical fiber company suspected of being involved in smuggling solid waste. Law enforcement officers found that the company built three production lines for handling solid waste imported from abroad, and only one normal operation was actually started. The company still declared customs in accordance with the "top grid quota" of the annual capacity of 15000 tons, and the "set" quota was transferred to a small workshop in other provinces, where enterprises made huge profits.

Squeezing the market space of "foreign garbage"

At present, many parts of the southeast coast are strengthening cooperation between departments, improving coordination mechanism, and building a "foreign garbage" prevention and control system.

Fujian customs and other departments seized 3 smuggling solid waste gangs in the first quarter of this year, and seized more than 2000 tons of solid waste imported from the state. The environmental protection department, after understanding the case, listed illegal enterprises on the blacklist, and carried out investigation in various locality to prevent similar problems.

Lufeng city of Guangdong province is organizing law enforcement forces such as public security, transportation, coastal defense, environmental protection, market supervision and so on. It is divided into two action groups on land and sea, and 24 hours of continuous inspections and inspections are carried out on Jieshi Bay and surrounding roads, so as to prevent illegal entry of old clothing.

Li Xiaodong, deputy Procurator General of the Guangdong Provincial People's Procuratorate, suggested that the procuratorial organs should work together with the customs to formulate Guiding Opinions on the crime of smuggling "foreign garbage", and strengthen the linkage between customs, environmental protection departments and procuratorial organs, so as to promote the process of handling cases comprehensively, and comprehensively and accurately punish such crimes, which will lead to greater deterrent effect on criminals.

According to the insiders, to eliminate "foreign garbage", we should strengthen departmental interaction and enhance crackdown. We should also make comprehensive use of legal, economic and administrative means to innovate the management mechanism of solid waste recycling and reduce the "foreign garbage" consumer market.

The plan for the reform of the control system for the import of solid wastes from foreign garbage has clearly put forward that the timetable for the import of solid waste should be worked out according to the types of industries, and the import management catalogue should be adjusted in batches. Relevant experts believe that this initiative will help domestic enterprises gradually reduce their dependence on foreign waste material imports and make better use of domestic waste resources to achieve "double benefits" of environment and development.

Once known by the outside world as "electronic waste city", Guiyu Town, Chaoyang District, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, the phenomenon of dismantling and smuggling of waste electrical and electronic products was once rampant. A circular economy industrial park will be established locally to guide dismantling households to enter the park to achieve unified production and transaction.

Zheng Jinxiong, deputy director of the park management committee, told reporters that in order to ensure a clear flow of goods and prevent illegal transactions of "foreign garbage", vehicles and individuals carrying no solid waste vehicles without registration information will be investigated by the relevant departments. "Now," foreign garbage "will be dealt with as soon as it appears, and there is no room for survival.