Us Proposes A Bill To Combat Illegal Import Of Textile Garments

According to the two lawyers, SSSPO and Li Xinyu Murphy, who specialize in Customs Law of the United States, many members of the United States presented a draft law to the Congress on the 25 day of May to crack down on illegal imports of textile garments. On May,

Many provisions of the bill deal with textile imports from central and South American countries and Mexico enjoying preferential trade treatment in the United States.

The terms directly related to garment exporters in Asian countries include:

The United States Department of Homeland Security and the Ministry of finance are required to pay for fines, penalties and fines in cases of textile garments, and to pay directly related expenses to investigate illegal imports.

Authorize the Department of homeland security or the Ministry of finance to award fines, penalties and penalties to informants.

The reward will be no less than 20% of the amount of the government's penalty, or $20 thousand (whichever is lower), provided that the information provided by the informant can enable the government to arrest, sentence, impose civil fines, fines and other goods involved in violating the law of importing textile garments.

The number of customs officers who imported the highest fifteen ports in the United States increased the number of customs officers to inspect imported garments.

The US Customs office is required to send liaison personnel in China and other countries to strengthen textile enforcement.

Establish a "foreign importer" (non-residentimporter) declaration system, requiring "foreign importers" (1) to designate local agents in the state where the import ports are located, and to receive summons and other legal documents in the cases of illegal import of textile products; (2) to prove that their local agents have enough property in the United States to guarantee payment of civil penalties or to exceed the customs duties of the upper limit of the customs guarantee; (3) submit a commercial invoice for each ticket, declare the name, address and contact method of each party, such as the trading company, freight forwarder and the final buyer of the goods; (4) declare that they have obtained import guarantees for the import of textile garments, and have issued the authorized documents;

In addition to importers, all other members of the entire supply chain are also responsible for deliberately lowering the price of imported clothing, in order to impose more tariffs or impose more penalties on more principal players.

The importer who submits false information shall be punished so that the goods involved may be seized and confiscated.

Increase the amount of import guarantee to cover customs duties, fees and estimated amount of penalty.

More information is required on the affidavit, including sale or departure date, container number and bill of lading information.

The United States Customs office is required to publish company information which intentionally violates the law of textile import.

The office of the United States Department of justice has set up a special office dealing with illegal imports of textile garments.

The domestic textile industry welcomed the bill, calling it the first customs law enforcement law specifically aimed at textile garments in the history of the United States.

But the bill has also caused considerable controversy in the trade community, and many importers have expressed their opposition.

The domestic textile industry has been accused of a large number of textiles from central and South America which do not conform to the bilateral or multilateral agreements between the United States and these countries, and even many illegal re export products, such as yarns and denim from China and Pakistan.

This situation has intensified in recent years, leading to the closure of many American companies.

In addition, some operators accuse the clothing imports from Asia of a large low price phenomenon, causing huge tariff losses to the US government.

It is against this background that domestic interest groups have contributed to this bill.

According to the laws of the United States, foreign companies, such as garment factories and exporters, can, in the case of buying American import letters and designate local agents, make customs clearance for their own garments in the United States as "foreign importers" and then deliver the goods to the final buyers.

In recent years, the US Customs has strictly checked the customs clearance of the "head company" in the LDP paction, and some Chinese exporters have begun to clear the goods for LDP in the US as a "foreign importer".

If this bill is passed by the US Congress, it will bring great difficulties to the customs clearance mode of "foreign importers", which will further affect the export sales of foreign garment products to the United States.

Two lawyers of Li Xinyu and merleyne pointed out that the terms of the bill had a clear tendency to shift the pressure on smuggling smuggled goods and reporting the value of goods to the middlemen, LDP buyers and freight forwarding companies.

This has something to do with the poor effectiveness of the US Customs in recent years.

Whether this pressure can promote the return of FOB trade will remain to be observed.

In addition, manufacturers of fabrics and yarns exported to Mexico and central and South America should also attach great importance to the determination and strength of us customs in the future to crack down on illegal re export trade.