Smuggling Cars from Hong Kong to China

Traders have discovered that Chinese import tariffs can be dodged by shipping cards, trucks and other merchandise from Hong Kong to Vietnam’s province of Quang Ninh to be driven across the porous land border into China. The illicit traffic became public when Chinese anti-smuggling forces began intercepting Vietnamese freighters en route from Hong Kong to the Quang Ninh port of Hon Gai. Since June of this year, nearly 20 ships have been seized and their cargo confiscated…[more]