Carrying hairy crabs was fined 10000.
CBSA-born Hong Kong woman KamTeiCheung, who lives in Richmond, entered Vancouver International Airport. When filling out the customs declaration form, she said that she didn't bring any food or creatures, only clothes. Customs later found that there were two wooden cases in the luggage, which contained 70 live hairy crabs. As a result, the lady was severely fined 1 1,000 yuan by the Canadian Border Services Agency.
Undeclared watches may be severely punished for entering the country.
Case 1:
Zhu Yulong, a China man from Surrey, British Columbia, pleaded guilty to charges of violating tariff laws and attempting to evade taxes in Richmond Provincial Court last Friday and was fined 6,546.56 yuan.
The Customs pointed out that when Zhu returned to Canada from China via Vancouver International Airport in the middle of June 5438+February last year, the customs officers found that he had not declared his watch PatekPhilippe with an estimated value of 35,000 Canadian dollars.
At that time, he explained that he had bought this watch in Hong Kong for 200,000 Hong Kong dollars as early as 2000, but he didn't declare it.
Case 2:
In 2005, Liu Guoying, a man from Wenzhou, China, admitted in the Richmond Provincial Court of British Columbia that when he entered Canada on June 5438+February, 2004, he failed to truthfully declare a Patek Philippe watch worth 19000 yuan to the customs officers, and was fined 4000 yuan by the court, so he had to pay a fine to the customs to get it back. Liu Guoying once said that this watch was given to him by his friend when he was traveling abroad. However, the customs pointed out that even if gifts are received, they should be declared.
Statistics show that in 2004, Canadian Border Agency officers seized nearly 3 million yuan of undeclared jewelry and watches in British Columbia.
Confiscation of nearly 50 million yuan in three years
In April 2006, before flying from Vancouver Airport to Beijing, Huiyang, a woman from China, was questioned by CBSA officials in the airport lobby and was reminded that she had to declare whether she was carrying more than 1 10,000 RMB in cash. Yang said that she only had 5,000 yuan on her, but officials searched her luggage and found that there were Canadian dollars, US dollars, Hong Kong dollars and RMB in different parts of her luggage, with a total value of 2 1843.35 Canadian dollars. Subsequently, the official suspected that Yang's cash was the proceeds of crime on the grounds of 15, and confiscated it on the spot if he did not cooperate, looked flustered, gave inconsistent answers, and could not explain the exact purpose of taking out the cash.
CBSA means that in the past three years, more than 2,500 cases of violating this declaration requirement have been seized, and * * * property has been confiscated, totaling 47 million Canadian dollars.
It is not uncommon for customs to impose fines on seized goods.
Looking at this year alone, except for the above hairy crab incident, others have been exposed by the media:
A Beijinger from China entered Vancouver, intending to transfer to Saskatoon. Mainland in luggage? Shuanghui? Brand-name meat products were found, detained at Vancouver airport and fined 200 Canadian dollars.
AlexanderKyle, a 68-year-old male resident of Castelgar, inland British Columbia, took an Alaska ferry to PrinceRupert. CBSA officials boarded the ship to inspect trucks and trailers, and found $65,438+047,960 hidden in the carriages. As a result, nearly $654.38+$5,000 and recreational vehicles were confiscated, 500 yuan was fined and even sentenced.
A Vietnamese citizen was fined 7000 yuan for smuggling abalone into China.