LCQ20: Regulating cross-boundary online shopping

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:
 

Year     The detailed figures by the types of major items seized are at Annex.

(3), (4) and (6) The C&ED makes use of enforcement strategies of risk management, intelligence exchange and analysis to combat the illegal imports of various types of prohibited articles. Customs officers conduct checking and clearance on passengers, cargoes and conveyances at various control points, and mount joint enforcement actions with the Mainland Customs from time to time to combat cross-boundary smuggling activities of various articles.Issued at HKT 14:22

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