{"id":28671,"date":"2015-03-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2015\/03\/20150318_144504.shtml"},"modified":"2015-03-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T04:00:00","slug":"joint-effort-crackdown-on-parallel-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2015\/03\/12\/joint-effort-crackdown-on-parallel-trading\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint-effort crackdown on parallel trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Law_and_Order\/e-channel.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Government is concerned about the nuisance parallel trading activities cause to people\u2019s daily lives and law enforcement agencies\u00a0have been implementing a series of countermeasures.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Secretary for Security TK Lai told legislators today that between March last year and February this year, the Customs &amp; Excise Department arrested 5,000 people for exporting unlicensed powdered formula.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The courts jailed 157 people, fined 5,094, and issued suspended sentences to 668.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police and Immigration officers also arrested 831 people for breaching their conditions of stay. Thirty-nine were jailed and 790 were repatriated.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Immigration Department identified 13,500 suspected parallel traders and refused 28,500 entries.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Fire Services Department has carried out inspections for possible fire risks caused by parallel trading, and the Lands Department has checked for land lease breaches.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police have stepped up enforcement actions against obstructions and nuisance.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The MTR Corporation has designated luggage size and weight limits to stop passengers from carrying oversized or overweight baggage, and will refuse anyone exceeding these restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lai said imposing an arrival tax is not feasible as it might adversely affect the tourism, retail and food and beverage sectors, and the Mainland might impose a similar tax on Hong Kong people crossing the boundary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Law_and_Order\/e-channel.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The Government is concerned about the nuisance parallel trading activities cause to people&rsquo;s daily lives and law enforcement agencies&nbsp;have been implementing a series of countermeasures.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Secretary for Security TK Lai told legislators today that between March last year and February this year, the Customs &amp; Excise Department arrested 5,000 people for exporting unlicensed powdered formula.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The courts jailed 157 people, fined 5,094, and issued suspended sentences to 668.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Police and Immigration officers also arrested 831 people for breaching their conditions of stay. Thirty-nine were jailed and 790 were repatriated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Immigration Department identified 13,500 suspected parallel traders and refused 28,500 entries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Fire Services Department has carried out inspections for possible fire risks caused by parallel trading, and the Lands Department has checked for land lease breaches.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Police have stepped up enforcement actions against obstructions and nuisance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The MTR Corporation has designated luggage size and weight limits to stop passengers from carrying oversized or overweight baggage, and will refuse anyone exceeding these restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lai said imposing an arrival tax is not feasible as it might adversely affect the tourism, retail and food and beverage sectors, and the Mainland might impose a similar tax on Hong Kong people crossing the boundary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28672,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28671\/revisions\/28672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}