Face an ocean of export restriction of America

  　　In the related research activity organized by Jiangsu Council of Import & Export on June 13, it is reported that last year, America detained “escape-from-quota” textile slopwork over USD 100 million and smuggle garment of USD 46 million, including 10,000 pieces of such cases in Los Angeles. This year, American customhouse increases such activities by 64% to imported cargos, cases that refuses entry of textile by 368%, customer detention cases by 10 times, including illegal textiles of USD 53.6 million and 37% ineligible goods supervision. Most of these exported textiles are from China.     　　   　　They are such shocking numbers. Lawyer Ylem A Proudlock and Li Xinyu analyzed that there are two reasons. Firstly, American customs officers prefer detaining wrongly to wrong entry; secondly, once customs officers doubt of the imported products, for example, they thought the country of origin is not true, they thought it must be from China firstly, which is inconceivable.    





 　　High investment and multiple directions become the new characteristics of America custom as supervising and monitoring imported goods. It is said that in terms of containers, American customhouse prepares newly development detecting instruments and equipments. Checking a container once costs USD 400, which not only prolong the entry time, but also increase the importer’s cost. Experts introduce that the current supervision of American customhouse includes aspects as follows. The first is cargo amount. Because American has canceled quota restriction to all WTO members except China, as they audit cargo amount, they will send personnel to importer office to validate if the imported amount is accordance with declaration. The second is country of origin. America signs free trade agreements with many countries and regions, whose products enjoy tariff concession and are out of quota restriction as exported to America, so the country of origin is quite strict, especially to the products from South Korea, Philippine, Russia, Hong Kong and Taiwan, etc. Not long before, a slopwork factory of China exported two batches of slopwork to New York through middleman of Hong Kong, with declaring country of origin of Hong Kong, which need no quota. However, because he cannot put in original production record of Hong Kong, the cargo war refused and the company was claimed for compensation by importer. The third is truth of cargo. A company of China, incited by American importer, declared the lady’s slip dress with 28.2% tariff as underwear with 16% tariff. And American customhouse detained all the cargos for escaping quota restrict intently and evasion of duty. And then, the importer didn’t lodge administrative complaint to ask for releasing cargo, neither paid for the cargo. All of the loss was charged by that company of China. The fourth is intellectual property, such as trademark, patent, and commodity appearance, etc. Due to large value of such cases, American custom officers are interested in them.