Transport service enterprises use fake citizen identification cards to declare customs for smuggling

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Recently, the Customs Department informed about the work situation in August and 8 months of 2025. In the fight against smuggling and trade fraud, the Customs Department assessed the situation This is still complicated.

"Avoid" customs, route sea accounts for a large proportion violation highest

According to the Customs Department, among more than 1,500 cases of smuggling, trade fraud and illegal transportation of goods , micro sea violation with 823 cases, accounting for 52.7% of the number of cases detected, arrested and handled.

According to On this route, goods are mainly concentrated through important seaports such as Van Gia, Dinh Vu, Nam Hai Dinh Vu, Tan Vu, VIP Green, Cat Lai, Cai Mep ... The Customs Department noted that this route has a phenomenon of violations of conditions, standards and labels of goods.

Road routes accounted for 34% of detected cases. violations, concentrated at the Vietnam - China and Vietnam - Cambodia borders. Goods Illegal items hidden on the person, hidden in luggage such as foreign currency, cigarettes, mobile phones, frozen foods...

Along with that is the activity. Transporting firecrackers, white sugar, pesticides, plant growth stimulants in the Central provinces and the Vietnam - Laos border...

Many sophisticated smuggling tricks via international air routes

Regarding the airline route, in August, the authorities arrested and processed 80 cases , accounting for 5.12% of detected cases. Violations, estimated value of infringing goods 81.2 billion VND .

Goods are concentrated in the areas of international airport gates: Noi Bai, Tan Son Nhat, Da Nang . Here, businesses providing transportation services (FEDEX, DHL, UPS...) take advantage of the type of consignment of goods entering and leaving the country through international airports; the non-commercial type to smuggle, transport goods, currency, drugs across the border.

Specifically, they often use fake names, fake IDs, and unclear addresses; hire people to receive goods on their behalf to send and receive goods at long-distance airports; hire service companies to receive goods through many stages to complete customs declaration procedures to erase traces.

In addition, on railways, waterways, postal routes, etc., 127 cases were detected, arrested and handled.

8 months, import and export reached nearly 600 billion USD

According to the Customs Department, the total value of import and export goods in August reached more than 83 billion USD (up 0.9%, equivalent to an increase of 769 million USD compared to the previous month).

In the first 8 months of 2025, the total import and export value of goods reached more than 597 billion USD (up 16.3%, equivalent to an increase of 83.89 billion USD over the same period last year).

Customs Department collects state budget from import-export activities in August reached 35,501 billion VND ; total for the first 8 months of 2025 reached 298,301 billion VND .