Prime Minister: Smuggling and counterfeit goods are big problems that must be prevented, repelled and ended.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a working session with ministries, branches and central agencies to assess the work of combating smuggling, trade fraud and counterfeit goods in the first months of 2025 and the directions and tasks for the coming time - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Attending the conference were: Deputy Prime Minister , Head of National Steering Committee 389 Bui Thanh Son; leaders of ministries, branches, central agencies; members of National Steering Committee 389.

Opening the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that in recent times, ministries, branches and localities have made many efforts in the fight against smuggling, trade fraud and counterfeit goods, achieving certain results, contributing to stabilizing production, business, markets, controlling goods, protecting people's health, ensuring security and order...

However, recently many serious cases have been discovered such as fake milk in Hanoi, fake medicine in Thanh Hoa, fake food in Phu Tho, fake functional food in Hanoi, fake goods in Ho Chi Minh City; fake goods are widely traded on social networks; the situation of manipulation, hoarding, price gouging... affects people's health and psychology, affects public security, budget loss, and negatively impacts many other aspects of social life.

Emphasizing that this is a big, serious problem and frankly stating that it is due to the laxity of some agencies and some related localities, the Prime Minister questioned whether it is due to a lack of responsibility; overlapping, omission of tasks...

The Prime Minister requested a strict review, clarification of causes and responsibilities of organizations and individuals, and at the same time proposed tasks, solutions and responsibilities of agencies, localities and functional forces to prevent, repel and end smuggling, trade fraud and counterfeit goods.

According to the report of Steering Committee 389, in 2025, the country's political security situation will be stable, the economy will maintain good growth momentum; the flow of exported and imported goods, passengers, and means of transport through the border gate will continue to increase.

On the border routes, border gates, and sea areas, illegal transportation of prohibited goods such as drugs, firecrackers, foreign cigarettes, smuggled goods, goods of unknown origin, counterfeit goods, and poor quality goods such as gasoline, oil, gold, alcohol, beer, sugar, cosmetics, functional foods, clothes, food, frozen goods, household goods, etc. has emerged.

Inland, violations of the law on production and trade of counterfeit goods, goods infringing on intellectual property rights, goods infringing on product labels, trading in expired goods, goods of unknown origin, trading in smuggled goods, goods without invoices or documents, etc. continue to occur in most provinces and cities; and are openly traded on social networks.

The Prime Minister requested a strict review, clarification of causes and responsibilities of organizations and individuals, and proposed tasks, solutions and responsibilities of agencies, localities and functional forces to prevent, repel and end smuggling, trade fraud and counterfeit goods - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

In the fight against smuggling, trade fraud, and counterfeit goods, units and localities have arrested and handled more than 34,000 violations. Of these, there were more than 8,200 cases of trading and transporting prohibited and smuggled goods; more than 25,100 cases of trade fraud and tax fraud; more than 1,100 cases of counterfeit goods and intellectual property violations; collected more than VND 4,897 billion for the state budget; prosecuted nearly 1,400 cases and more than 2,100 subjects.

However, the situation of smuggling and illegal transportation of goods across the border is still complicated; inland, the situation of production and trade of counterfeit goods, poor quality goods, goods of unknown origin, goods infringing intellectual property rights is still operating openly in many places, increasing in the e-commerce environment on a large scale, for a long time, directly affecting people's health; the situation of illegal purchase and sale of invoices, tax fraud and taking advantage of favorable and open conditions in import policies for smuggling and trade fraud has not been detected and handled promptly....

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Ha Van

Source: https://baochinhphu.vn/thu-tuong-buon-lau-hang-gia-la-van-de-lon-phai-ngan-chan-day-lui-va-cham-dut-102250514090725415.htm