Anti-Smuggling

According to Cau Treo Customs Branch, the unit has coordinated with competent forces to detect and arrest a passenger car transporting 100 kg of firecrackers across the province.

VCN - Contraband cigarettes are transported by cars from HCM City to the Western region, then to the Central region. This is a new route, showing that cigarette smuggling in the country has been complicated and sotisphicated.

VCN – Saigon port area 1 Customs Branch - Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department inspected an imported shipment declared as Chinese origin goods by an enterprise, but the "MADE IN VIETNAM" text is printed on the cartons. More than 40 containers of imported a

VCN - In the first days of 2023, Noi Bai International Airport Customs Branch arrested six passengers illegally transporting 108 taels of metal suspected to be gold exceeding the amount allowed under the law.

According to Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department, smuggling and trade fraud are increasingly unpredictable and variable, appearing as new forms of fraud

GDVC has directed local Customs Departments to continue strengthening the control of overloaded and oversized vehicles transporting goods that are subject to customs supervision.

VCN - Earlier, on February 2, Hai Phong Customs Department collaborated with the local enforcement authorities to seize about 500kg of ivory.

Hai Phong Customs Department chaired and coordinated with competent forces to search and discover nearly 500 kg of ivory illegally imported from Africa.

The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) has asked agencies under its wing to strengthen inspection and supervision to promptly detect and handle smuggling by air.

VCN – The customs sector handled 546 violation cases of customs laws with the infringing goods worth VND196 billion in January 2023, reported the General Department of Customs on February 1.