To open peak fight against smuggling, trade fraud, and counterfeit goods during Tet 2023 in Vietnam

To open peak fight against smuggling, trade fraud, and counterfeit goods during Tet 2023 in Vietnam (Internet image)

The National Steering Committee to combat smuggling, trade fraud, and counterfeit goods issues Plan 115/KH-BCD389 for 2022 on the peak fight against smuggling, trade fraud, and counterfeit goods before, during, and after the 2023 Quy Mao Lunar New Year.

To proactively control, promptly detect, fight, and effectively prevent acts of smuggling, trade fraud, and counterfeit goods, the National Steering Committee for Combating Smuggling, Trade Fraud, and Counterfeit Goods issued a peak plan to combat smuggling, trade fraud, and counterfeit goods before, during, and after the 2023 Lunar New Year as follows:

The purpose of the peak plan is to combat smuggling, trade fraud, and counterfeit goods during Tet 2023 in Vietnam

- Strengthen leadership, direction, inspection, urging, and guidance of Steering Committee 389 of ministries, branches, and localities to proactively and promptly grasp and control the situation of smuggling, trade fraud, and counterfeit goods;

Regularly exchange and share information and coordinate to inspect, control, detect, fight, arrest, and handle acts of smuggling, trade fraud, and counterfeit goods to prevent and repel smuggling activities, illegal transportation of goods across borders, border gates, and sea areas, trade fraud, tax evasion, acts of buying, selling, and transporting prohibited goods, smuggled goods, production and trading of counterfeit goods, poor quality goods, goods infringing intellectual property rights, etc.

- Steering Committee 389 of ministries, branches, and localities seriously implements the directions of the Government, Prime Minister, and National Steering Committee 389 on combating smuggling, trade fraud, and counterfeit goods; proactively organizes forces and means; and has appropriate solutions to effectively carry out the task of combating smuggling, trade fraud, and counterfeit goods in the fields and areas of management and responsibility.

Tasks of the Peak Plan to combat smuggling, trade fraud and counterfeit goods during Tet 2023 in Vietnam

- Develop and direct the effective implementation of the peak plan to combat smuggling, trade fraud, and counterfeit goods before, during, and after the 2023 Lunar New Year;

- Proactively grasp situational developments; identify methods and tricks of smuggling, trade fraud, and counterfeit goods; Identify key objects, routes, areas, and items that need to focus forces, means, and combat measures; Determine the responsibilities of central and local agencies and units in the management, inspection, and control of areas and fields;

- Develop and deploy plans to strengthen forces and vehicles to patrol and strictly control border routes, border gates by road, rail, river, sea, air, and trails, openings, and goods gathering areas near the border to prevent banned goods, counterfeit goods, and poor quality goods from being smuggled into the inland;

Strictly control wholesale markets, shopping centers, agents, grocery stores, e-commerce trading floors, buying and selling online, etc.promptly detect acts of taking advantage of trading and transporting prohibited goods, counterfeit goods, goods of unknown origin, goods that violate intellectual property rights, etc.; focus on conditional imported goods, goods with high tax rates, prohibited goods, counterfeit goods, and goods serving consumer needs during the Lunar New Year such as firecrackers, cigarettes, gasoline, minerals, precious metals, foreign currency, electronics, phones, high-end fashion, food, wine, beer, confectionery, fruits, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, functional foods, livestock, poultry, etc.;

- Establish interdisciplinary working groups to grasp the situation, inspect, urge, and guide forces, units, and localities to organize effective struggles for smuggling activities, trade fraud, and counterfeit goods in the fields and areas of management and responsibility.

More details can be found in Plan 115/KH-BCD389 for 2022.

Diem My

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