CCTV Exposure: 139 Tons Of Chinese Clothing Changed To "Korean Made", High Priced Monopoly "Pit" Chinese!

On the domestic e-commerce platform, we can often see the brand clothing from Han Guodong's door, but recently, the Korean customs office has seized a large number of Chinese costumes disguised as Han Guodong gate brand after being cut off, and then sold them to Chinese consumers. The value of these clothes is as high as about 30000000 yuan.

Liu Zheng, a special correspondent of CCTV financial channel: at the gate of Han Guodong's clothing wholesaler area, whenever the night falls, a lot of Korean brand clothing is sold from all over the world. And this suspect is in the east gate of the studio. It will be cut from the "made in China" label on the clothes purchased at low prices in China and replaced by "made in Korea". It smuggled and shipped back to China without declaring to the customs. And sold on China's e-commerce platform.

The reporter learned from the South Korean customs office that the four suspects involved are Chinese nationality, and they have accepted orders from about 200000 Chinese consumers on the electronic business platform. In addition to suspected scissors and forgery of goods, when sending clothes to Chinese consumers, the suspects were also suspected of shipping documents and other documents. Forgery is a commodity without commodity value, thereby evading high tariffs.

Recently, the Korean customs office handed over the four suspects to the procuratorial organ. It is reported that they were between September 2017 and January 2019. For the 173 time, 460 thousand pieces of clothing were smuggled into China for a total of 139 tons, worth 5 billion 400 million won, or about 31 million 500 thousand yuan, making an illegal profit of 220 million won, or about 1 million 290 thousand yuan.

Li Dongxian, head of the special investigation section of the Department of customs, South Korea: in order to increase the speed of customs clearance, we now implement simple export declaration system and lower inspection fees. The value of goods was marked as 0 yuan for smuggling.

In June, a designer in Korea also bought Chinese clothing at the same low price. The cut label was disguised as a Korean made garment, selling at a high price in the Korean market and illegally earning 700 million won, or about 4 million 200 thousand yuan.

Due to frequent occurrence of scissors, smuggling and other cases, the South Korean customs office said it would strengthen control over the origin of clothing imports and exports in South Korea's garment factories, logistics centers and airports before October of this year. At the same time, it will also crack down on smugglers by improving the inspection rate and so on, so as to maintain order in the Korean clothing market.

It is worth mentioning that the General Administration of Customs of Seoul disclosed that its intelligence showed that Han Guodong's gate wholesale market has been gradually controlled by Chinese businessmen since 2015 and has launched a smuggling business to China.

This means that Chinese consumers need to keep their eyes on buying Korean clothing products, especially the "East Gate market" as a selling point, because it is likely that they are not the so-called Korean products that are likely to be bought, but the fake Korean goods packaged by Chinese businessmen.

Seoul East Gate Wholesale Market

Han Guodong Gate market, source: Trazy Blog

But in fact, in the face of a large number of Korean purchasing agents, Chinese consumers have very little chance to identify the origin information, even if the information is not necessarily true.

In a treasure net "East Gate" For keyword search, goods found from bags, shoes to jewelry, clothing, rich in goods. And in the top of the list of shops to browse the details of goods, will find that many businesses do not mention the products of the origin of information, and stressed that South Korea's purchase of products "usually do not have a trademark", consumers want to take the commodity to accept such a premise, can not be used as the reason for the poor evaluation.

There are also some sellers who will specifically refer to similar exemption clauses such as "Chinese labels are very normal in manufacturing, cautious in taking care of people," and "do not guarantee the uniformity of the origin of goods and the place of origin". In this case, consumers are still willing to pay for the product style and design. To a certain extent, "Han Guodong gate" can be regarded as an adjective expressing Korean fashion style.