Today, according to online media expose, the wife of a customs cadre in Dalian, whose real name is report, maintains improper sexual relations with 14 purchasing agents.
In addition, the official also received bribes to assist in smuggling:
- Make use of duty to facilitate other people to shield connivance smuggling, help many full-time purchasing agents evade customs inspection, tax evasion, profit, huge amount, suspected of accepting bribes and indulging in smuggling crime;
- Taking advantage of duty to facilitate violation of law and discipline, seeking a large number of private interests, accepting bribes, suspected of the crime of taking bribes by corruption;
- Making use of his position convenience colluded with Song Wei to increase the value of purchasing goods, deceive purchase funds, seek private profit, carry out corruption crime, and be suspected of accepting bribes by corruption;
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Who could have thought that an overseas purchasing agency, which would have looked so "pure", could hide so much private business.
The confusion of "purchasing circle" follows the outer circle which was once at the top of the wind and wave.
Purchasing agents is the easiest industry for overseas students and overseas Chinese to enter. How much benefit does it have to attract people to pay the cost of sell oneself?.
Why is the overseas purchasing industry popular after all? will this kind of heat continue in the future?
The 300 billion market of overseas purchasing agents
Years ago, buying overseas goods was a difficult wish for the vast majority of people. Logistics, the network is not developed, even if relatives and friends live abroad, it is very difficult to receive suitable overseas supplies.
The rise of the network, the rapid development of logistics, the emergence of e-commerce, the surge of international students and overseas personnel, all of which provide conditions for overseas purchasing agents. Provides a "gateway" to goods that cannot be purchased due to time, distance and policy.
According to data, transactions in China's overseas purchasing agent market exceeded 70 billion yuan in 2013, more than 150 billion yuan in 2014, and another step in 2015. In just four years, that figure has doubled this year to 300 billion.
There were people in the industry, expose, even an ordinary overseas purchasing agent, a monthly income of one hundred thousand is not a dream. Whether it's daily necessities, clothes, shoes, bags, luxuries, domestic demand is huge.
Reasonable, the generation of purchasing agents is also in line with the law of the market, who does not want to get a piece of the market from 300 billion?
The past of overseas purchasing agents at home and abroad.
China's "purchasing agent" industry reached a climax in 2008.
That year, the release of tainted milk powder killed at least six babies and sickened thousands more. Domestic mothers are so worried that overseas milk powder is rapidly gaining a huge market, so that until now milk powder is one of the hottest products in the purchasing industry. In addition, China's non-standard testing of toothpaste, cosmetics and drugs has given more consumers the option to go shopping abroad.
Chinese people like to buy milk powder from all over the world is famous, of course, because of the huge demand, but also caused criticism from friends abroad. Chinese Australians are frequently discriminated against because of milk powder.
In November, when Ammy, a Chinese-Australian mother, was standing in line at a supermarket in Sydney, the clerk confiscated two cans of milk powder. "Milk powder is for Australian children," the clerk said.
The incident caused a storm, also known as "the humiliation of buying milk powder by the Chinese." However, the enthusiasm of purchasing agents in China also really interferes with the normal life of people in other countries.
As long as the domestic commodity food does not pass the customs, the lack of national trust, the lack of market competitiveness, the huge demand for purchasing agents will always exist.
Law dilemma faced by purchasing agents
After last year's "double 11" and "12" crazy promotion, purchasing agents ushered in a special historical period.
January 1, 2019, the domestic electric commerce law officially implemented. According to the regulations, in the past, WeChat businessmen who used to take goods through the customs clearance of "human flesh" will all become a member of the e-commerce operator, requiring registration of the market subject and performance of the duty to pay taxes.
This also means that individuals who were previously in the law blind zone will be subject to restrictions on overseas purchasing into the regulatory sphere. Whether selling goods in social app Time line, bringing goods on the live broadcast platform, or opening an agent store in Taobao, all belong to e-business operators.
Otherwise, once defined as smugglers, they could face up to 2 million fines.
Purchasing agents at Shanghai Pudong Airport have been checked out of the box.
The potential benefit of the new e-commerce law is that your social app Time line will become cleaner and cleaner. But on the other hand, small and micro purchasing agents may also disappear in large numbers because they cannot afford the newly increased costs.
"if you are caught carrying a suitcase at the Customs, you usually pay 30% for 50%." if the mail is picked up back home, the purchasing agent will have to pay a postal duty. According to the General Administration of Customs Proclamation No. 140 of 2018, the duty rate on cosmetics and toiletries is 50%. 25%.
This can also illustrate the confusion mentioned at the beginning of this article. Purchasing agents do not hesitate to sleep with. In order to establish a "good friendship" with the customs.
(of course, most of the purchasing agents are still very simple and painstakingly earn hard money.)
And the requirements of the E-commerce law for purchasing agents are becoming more and more strict:
- Any purchasing agent needs the business licenses of both the purchasing country and the Chinese side;
- Need to pay tax, tax evasion must bear criminal responsibility;
It is not alarmist to buy and cherish the most popular milk and health products.