On February 6, the General Administration of Customs announced that this year it will launch a joint special campaign titled 'National Gate Sword 2018' to determine the implementation of special combat and centralized control in five key areas and to crack down on foreign garbage smuggling as one project.
Zhang Guangzhi, spokesman for the General Administration of Customs, said on the same day that the Customs would further step up its regulatory crackdown and crack down on fierce battering and hard-fought battles to firmly suppress the trend of smuggling foreign garbage, protect the green mountains and rivers and win the landmark war of ecological civilization , Earnestly safeguard the national environmental safety.
At the 2018 National Commissioner of Customs and Excise Conference held on January 25, the Director General of Customs said in Yu Guangzhou that in 2017, the national anti-smuggling department of the whole country carried out the special operation "Blue Sky" and implemented four rounds of high-density, cluster- The whole chain combat foreign junk campaign, full block blocking 'foreign trash' smuggled into the country.
According to statistics, in 2017, a total of 286 criminal cases of smuggling of solid waste were investigated and prosecuted nationwide, an increase of 6.7 times as much as that of the same period of last year. All kinds of solid operations nationwide were checked for 866,800 tons of solid wastes and 'National Shield' and 'National Gate Swords' Results.
Shenzhen Customs 'Blue Sky Operation' seized more than 50,000 tons of waste plastics
On the early morning of February 3, Shenzhen Customs carried out a large-scale search and smuggling operation and smashed a smuggling network suspected of smuggling into and leaving the country for more than 50,000 tons of waste plastics. On the very day, the Customs dispatched more than 200 anti-smuggling personnel to Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Huizhou and Foshan Regions, arrests and arrests simultaneously, arrested 12 criminal suspects.
Case involved in the case does not have the EIA qualification of processing enterprises, mostly for small and medium-sized workshops.Searcher anti-smuggling personnel to Guangdong, a village in the South China Sea involved in the investigation of a processing plant, into the processing plant, the simple factory building is full of hills, such as the package Waste plastic heap, pungent taste in the air. Factory processing equipment and more for some simple forging machines and plastic mold, are the original artificial close operation.
Customs anti-smuggling officers seized criminal evidence
These small factories do not have the qualification of processing and manufacturing waste plastic EIA and the quality of plastic products such as plastic bags and plastic boxes can not be guaranteed. The wastewater, waste gas and waste generated in the production process are discharged without any treatment.
The factory was flooded with gray plastic bags of varying colors in midsummer waters. There were a wide variety of plastic products floating on the curbside river, and the thick, dark brown river gave a disgusting odor.
In the follow-up investigation of the case, anti-smuggling officers in Shenzhen Customs continued to dig deep and broaden their horizons and gradually came to the criminal trail of smuggling and importing waste plastic into the use of other people's licenses by 12 other criminal suspects.
Shenzhen customs anti-smuggling department quickly set up a joint task force to verify the series of clues one by one, in order to find out the facts related to smuggling, Customs anti-smuggling officers dozens of depth processing plant, to find out the relevant facts of the crime, the relevant criminal evidence.
Customs counterfeit officers seized fake seals
At present, the investigators found that the suspects involved in the direct order in the United States, Japan and other places ordered the waste plastic, and then by the Lanhuo and customs groups to use other enterprises to import waste plastic import permits, imports of waste plastics from multiple ports in Guangdong, and then lose To Huizhou, Shantou, Foshan and other places do not have the processing and production of waste plastics EIA qualification of enterprises, illegal processing and sales.
Up to now, the criminal network of smuggling solid waste covering overseas orders, transhipment and smuggling in Hong Kong, domestic logistics delivery, processing, production and distribution has been completely destroyed by the anti-smuggling department of Shenzhen Customs.
According to relevant regulations, China implements classification management on imported solid waste and is classified into prohibited categories, restricted categories and automatic licensing categories in the management catalog.
For the import of solid waste, importers must have appropriate qualifications, and must apply for "restrictions on imported materials can be used as solid waste permits" for the ban on the import of solid waste, no unit or individual may import under any name.
If an importer wants to apply for the import of solid waste, it must have the facilities, measures and facilities for the treatment and utilization of the imported solid waste, as well as the pollution prevention and control facilities and measures complied with the requirements of the national or local environmental protection standards, therefore, the operation and import And enterprises and individuals processing solid waste must fulfill the relevant formalities such as filing, submission of approval, declaration and so on, obtaining the permission of the state administrative department in charge, legally importing and lawfully using it.