Source: Hong Kong Government special administrative region
LCQ20: Regulating cross-boundary online shopping
| Year The C&ED has all along been applying risk assessment and intelligence analysis, and maintaining close intelligence exchange with the Mainland law enforcement agencies to combat cross-boundary smuggling activities. Apart from reviewing relevant documents (such as manifests, advance cargo information, etc) and conducting risk management on all cargoes importing into and exporting from Hong Kong through land boundary control points for selecting suspicious cargoes for inspection (via scanning by X-ray checker and ion scanner, open examination and sniffing by Customs detector dogs, etc), the C&ED flexibly deploys its internal resources to mount targeted anti-smuggling operations in a timely manner to prevent prohibited articles or controlled items from importing into and exporting out of Hong Kong illegally. The C&ED does not maintain daily average figures of the import cargoes inspected.
(2) The number of smuggling cases (via cargo mode) detected by the C&ED at land boundary control points from 2020 to 2024 is as follows:
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