Rampant Smuggling In Columbia Affects Many Sectors Of The Economy

< p > recently reported that "a href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp "smuggling" /a "rampant has caused great impact on many economic sectors of Gore: according to the estimates by the customs and taxation administration, the amount of smuggled goods in recent years has reached nearly 12 trillion pesos, which has caused 500 billion pesos in metal products, meat processing, dairy products, rice, clothing, footwear and other related industries, and evading tariffs and other taxes by nearly 2 trillion pesos.

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During the period from January 1, 2013 to December 15th, the customs and taxation administration of the Republic of China examined 39 thousand tons of smuggled goods, worth 218 billion pesos.

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< p > according to the government estimates, smuggled products may occupy nearly 60% of the market share in the "a href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp "clothing" /a, textiles and footwear market, and the amount of the above three categories of smuggled products from Panama will be as high as 40 to 5 billion dollars per year.

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< p > besides, smuggled meat and rice products from neighbouring countries such as Panama, Venezuela and Ecuador have had an impact on the livelihood of Colombian farmers and threatened the safety of animal and plant quarantine in Columbia.

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Less than P, the annual smuggling of rice into the territory of the Republic of Korea could reach 300 thousand tons, which will make a strong competition for the elder rice and make the stock of the Columbia rice production company rise to 500 thousand tons from the normal level of 250 thousand tons.

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< p > brother customs and < a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > "taxation /a > General Administration" and the National Association of industrialists called for amending relevant laws, bringing smuggling into the field of criminal offences, severely punishing smugglers, changing the current situation that the law enforcement officers can only check the goods, and release the smugglers quickly after being arrested.

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In order to protect Columbia's clothing industry from unfair competition, the Columbia government announced that it would extend the clothing import tax law for two years. < p >

In the management dialogue of the Ministry of Commerce, President Santos announced that import duties implemented under Decree No. 074 will continue.

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< p > Tariff Act No. 074 has been implemented since March 1, 2013. It has imposed a unified tariff of $5 / kg for all textiles and clothing imported to the country and reduced the import tax from 15% to 10%.

President Santos said that the new tariffs were fashionable a year ago to protect the domestic clothing industry from unfair competition.

This tariff has a positive impact on garment production.

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President Santos said that the government hopes to continue this measure, which will not affect the import of real prices, but will harm those imported artificially at low prices or smuggled.

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< p > Columbia Vice Minister of enterprise development introduced the extension of import tax measures to protect the local clothing industry.

The clothing limit will be $10 / kg, and less than the value of all garments will continue to pay the current 10% mixed duty plus $5 / kg.

Those that cost more than 10 dollars will pay 10% customs duties plus 5 US dollars / kg.

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< p > before, all garments were subject to a unified tax, and no products were allowed to be imported from Columbia because they could not be obtained at competitive prices.

This new measure in Columbia will allow imports of products that conform to the official trade tariff level of the world trade organization, such as the effective tariff should not exceed 40%.

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