Customs Region VII launched a peak campaign against smuggling and trade fraud.

Pursuant to Plan No. 30141/KH-CHQ of the Customs Department on the peak of the fight against smuggling, trade fraud and counterfeit goods on the occasion of the Lunar New Year of Binh Ngo in 2026, the Customs Branch of Region VII has just developed a peak plan to fight against smuggling and trade fraud in the management area.

The recent conference on coordination against smuggling and trade fraud of the Customs Branch of Region VII with relevant departments and agencies.

According to comrade Tran Phu Cuong, Deputy Head of Customs Branch VII, the main objective of the plan is to strengthen state management of Customs, promptly and accurately detect and strictly handle acts of smuggling and illegal transportation of goods across the border during the Lunar New Year; ensure security, social order and safety, stabilize market prices, protect consumers, and prevent loss of State budget revenue.

Accordingly, the customs sector will synchronously and effectively implement professional control measures such as: Proactively strengthening the organization, arrangement, and use of forces and means to patrol the road border gate area, international railway station border gates inland, and areas outside the border gate with export, import, exit, entry, and transit activities, especially in coordinating patrols with local functional forces such as: Border Guard, Police...

Strengthening reconnaissance work, collecting information, grasping the situation of areas, routes of goods transportation, cases, unusual phenomena with signs of temporary import, re-export, transit, border transfer, independent transportation; import-export of bonded warehouses, tax-free warehouses; export, import, transit of goods... smuggling, trade fraud, illegal transportation of goods across borders, violations of intellectual property rights, drugs; information on means of transport exiting, entering, transiting, temporary import, re-export, transit, border transfer, independent transportation... suspected of transporting smuggled goods; information on organizations and individuals showing unusual signs, having potential relationships with smuggling, illegal transportation of goods at the end of the year.

Strengthen supervision and close monitoring of subjects showing signs of organizing smuggling and illegal transportation of goods across the border during the peak of the Lunar New Year holiday.

Proactively promote the effectiveness of secret bases, increase the assignment of specific and detailed tasks to secret bases to promptly collect information, grasp signs and suspicions to serve the peak of preventing and combating smuggling and illegal transportation of goods across the border during the Lunar New Year.

Strengthen the effective implementation of customs control measures according to Official Dispatch No. 723/ĐTCBL-P1 dated October 10, 2025 of the Anti-smuggling Investigation Department and directives and instructions of the Customs Sub-Department of Region VII.

Focus on key points and routes according to specific goods and types: At border gate areas, regularly coordinate closely in immigration control for passengers entering, exiting and transiting; preside over and coordinate with functional units to inspect, control and supervise imported and exported goods and luggage, vehicles entering, exiting and transiting according to the functions and tasks of each force; strengthen patrols and controls at border gate areas within customs operation areas; coordinate to grasp the situation outside the customs operation area to promptly detect, combat and prevent violations of the law.

On the road routes concentrated in the areas bordering China and Laos, the focus is on the following groups of goods: drugs, gold, currency, modern medicine, cigarettes, alcohol, beer, soft drinks, white sugar; goods that do not ensure food hygiene and safety; pigs and pig products illegally transported from abroad into Vietnam; gasoline; all kinds of fireworks; rice, miscellaneous wood, agricultural products; raw materials and products of the textile, footwear and leather industries; goods traded in the form of temporary import and re-export, especially cars...

The route outside the border gate focuses on key areas: Export processing zones, bonded warehouses, and domestic import-export goods gathering points.

Focus on key subjects: Processing and export enterprises; scrap purchasing enterprises in export processing zones; enterprises exporting minerals, wood products, textiles, footwear, soldering irons, folding chairs, etc. to markets with sudden increase in turnover; Chinese enterprises in the area with export activities to the US market; enterprises that have violated customs laws; bonded warehouse business services; enterprises importing industrial precursors, conditional imported goods, items with high risk of fraud such as anti-dumping tax, origin fraud, illegal transshipment, etc.

Focus on fighting against goods with fake origin, stamps, labels, packaging, especially foreign goods labeled "Made in VietNam" in customs operation areas.

Combat illegal transshipment and trading of imported tax-exempt materials for smuggling and tax evasion purposes. Strengthen inspection and supervision of goods suspected of infringing intellectual property rights at border gates.

Assign responsibility to heads and leaders in charge of the results of implementing the Plan for the peak period of fighting against smuggling, trade fraud, and counterfeit goods before, during, and after the Lunar New Year of Binh Ngo in 2026.

Consider the responsibility of the leaders in charge and the civil servants assigned to be in charge of the customs operation area for not being aware of the incident that occurred in the area, not promptly reporting to leaders at all levels and not warning information to similar customs units...

Nguyen Thanh Tam

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