At 6 o'clock in the morning of September 14th, Qingdao Qianwan Bonded Port Area Customs inspection operation area, several containers were discharged in turn. After opening the container, a pungent smell came over, tons of white, gray, black waste powder The paint is in front of the eyes. In several other containers, it is filled with silver-gray block cargo ferrosilicon. This is the scene of the Qingdao Customs organization's fourth round of concentrated action of 'Blue Sky 2018'.
On September 14, under the unified command of the General Administration of Customs, Qingdao Customs organized the fourth round of concentrated action of 'Blue Sky 2018', and with the assistance of customs and private departments such as Tianjin, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Shantou, Shanghai, etc. Foreign smuggling gangs such as foreign garbage and ferrosilicon, arrested 15 suspects of major smuggling crimes, seized 420 tons of smuggled waste powder coating, 40 tons of ferrosilicon at the action site, and inspected 8,000 smuggled waste powder coatings and waste plastics. Tons, more than 80 tons of ferrosilicon.
After careful analysis and management in the early stage, Qingdao Customs mastered the smuggling of two smuggling gangs, such as Yuan Mou and He Mou, to smuggle imported waste powder coating evidence and network division. The trajectory of gang members' activities was implemented according to the uniform deployment of the General Administration of Customs on September 14. In a special attack, all 11 major criminal suspects were arrested. Through investigations on the suspected units and suspects' homes, a large number of documentary evidences, electronic evidence and other key smuggling crimes were found. The waste powder coating involved was 18,000 tons, and 420 tons were seized on the spot. Powder coatings are mostly used for spraying shells and parts of household appliances, metal furniture, instrumentation, construction hardware, etc., and the waste mainly comes from the production, the floor powder generated during the spraying process, overspray powder, ultrafine powder, The machine head powder, expired powder, etc., belong to the state banned import of solid waste. According to the preliminary investigation, a certain logistics company manager Yuan Mou and a trading company manager He Mou falsely reported the waste powder coating into inventory or balance powder coating. Reporting the real price and paying more taxes to cover up the fact that the actual imported goods are the state’s ban on the import of solid waste, and The complex port, the name of the business unit, placed high-quality powder coating at the door of the container to meet the customs inspection. After the goods are smuggled, they are mainly sold to household workshops specializing in powder coatings in Jiangsu and other places. The reprocessed waste powder coating is in the process of spraying. The high powder dropping rate is very likely to cause circulating pollution. After cleaning, the waste powder coating that cannot be processed and used after sorting is incinerated and will directly pollute the environment.
In the operation, Qingdao Customs also inspected a chemical company's fake name smuggling export silicon iron case, involving more than 80 tons of ferrosilicon, on-site seizure of 40 tons, arrested 2 suspects. After preliminary investigation, the company involved in the case of Li In order to obtain illegal benefits, the ferrosilicon that is restricted by the state is reported as iron sulfide and carbon reductant without export supervision conditions, and exported to Japan, Russia and other countries. Ferrosilicon is a resource product and a national strategic product. In order to reduce the impact of ferrosilicon production on resources and the environment, China currently implements strict export license management for ferrosilicon and imposes a 20% export tariff.
In addition, Qingdao Customs conducted a continuous crackdown on a company in Lianyungang, a company in Shanghai using other licenses to smuggle waste plastics, and verified more than 68,000 tons of smuggled waste plastics and arrested 2 suspects.
Since the beginning of this year, Qingdao Customs has continued to increase efforts to combat smuggling of foreign garbage, strengthen the analysis of foreign garbage entry risks and conduct inspections, strengthen the coordination of regulatory forces, increase the intensity of positive interception, and strictly register and manage the importers of imported waste materials to establish imported solids. The Association of Waste Attributes Identification Laboratory has improved its appraisal ability. In the first 8 months, Qingdao Customs has filed 22 cases of solid waste smuggling and 38 cases of administrative filing.