BEIJING: China Customs has cracked 18,556 smuggling cases for the first 11 months of 2014, among which 2,158 were filed for investigation. Customs administrations throughout the country imposed mandatory measures on 4,289 suspects related to these smuggling cases. In November merely, Customs officers seized 146 smuggling cases and imposed mandatory measures on 256 suspects.
While fighting strongly against the smuggling of agricultural products, China Customs continues to maintain a tough stance on the smuggling of key dutiable items, drugs, weapons and ammunitions, overseas wastes and endangered species. From January to November of 2014，China Customs filed for investigation 1,191 criminal smuggling cases of dutiable items which involved an evaded revenue of RMB 12.27billion, a year-on-year increase of 23.9% and 54.5% respectively.
Among them, 169 were those big cases with the evaded revenue exceeding RMB 10 million, jumped by 120%. Customs officers also cracked 967 criminal smuggling cases of those non-dutiable items, up 0.2%, among them, 443 were drug trafficking cases in which 4.32 tons of drugs were seized, 109 were smuggling cases of weapons and ammunitions in which 337 guns and 50,000 bullets were seized, and 96 were waste smuggling cases in which 178,000 tons of overseas waste (whose import is forbidden) were seized, for example, E-wastes and discarded slag.
