SHANGHAI: Customs staff in Shanghai have seized more than 80,000 pieces of smuggled mink fur and detained 13 suspects.
The fur was packed in 671 boxes of fiber, customs said.
The suspects confessed that they had illegally transport more than 30 tonnes of fur hidden in other products from July to October this year.
The fur market is booming in China, but high-end clothes made of mink largely rely on imports with high duties. This has led some smugglers to use fake commodity names or report low prices to evade tariffs, the customs said.
