What does the General Department of Customs direct?

The situation of smuggling and illegal transportation of lobsters has shown signs of increasing recently. Photo: biowish.vn

The Anti-Smuggling Investigation Department (General Department of Customs) issued Document No. 809/ĐTCBL-P2, dated September 24, on strengthening the fight against, preventing and handling the smuggling of lobster seeds to the Customs Departments of provinces and cities.

Previously, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development issued Document No. 7088/BNN-TY regarding the recent increase in smuggling and illegal transportation of lobster seeds from foreign countries into Vietnam, leading to a high risk of pathogen contamination.

Through collecting information and assessing the situation, the Anti-Smuggling Investigation Department determined that the main reason for the increase in smuggling is that lobsters must meet strict requirements on quality, origin, and quarantine when imported. In addition, this is a valuable item with high consumption demand, compact, easy to hide, and easy to transport, so it is smuggled.

Collected information shows that smuggled lobster seeds mainly originate from the Philippines and Indonesia, transiting through several countries and then being transported to Vietnam. Specifically, via air routes, lobster seeds are transited through Singapore and then smuggled through Noi Bai, Da Nang, and Tan Son Nhat international airports as luggage or hidden in imported goods. As for land routes, focusing on some border gates with Cambodia (Hoa Lu, Ha Tien, Binh Hiep, etc.), lobster seeds are hidden in luggage, goods or through border residents, trails and openings into Vietnam, then transported by small refrigerated trucks.

In order to promptly prevent and strictly handle acts of smuggling and illegal transportation of lobster seeds into our country, the Anti-smuggling Investigation Department requests the Customs Departments of provinces and cities to direct customs control forces to preside over and coordinate with functional forces in the area to strengthen information collection and grasp the situation at key routes and areas, especially air routes, border gates, trails, and openings in border areas, in order to detect, prevent, arrest, and handle acts of smuggling and illegal transportation of lobster seeds in accordance with the law.

The Anti-smuggling Investigation Department requests that the Customs Departments of provinces and cities coordinate to seriously implement the above tasks.

Source: https://congthuong.vn/nhap-lau-tom-hum-giong-gia-tang-tong-cuc-hai-quan-chi-dao-gi-348667.html