MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1982
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+SOME DOCUMENTATION FOR ALL GOODS, WHETHER OR NOT DUTIABLE, IS NECESSARY FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS. NOT THE LEAST OF THESE IS THAT THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT MUST PROVIDE ITSELF AND THE TRADING COMMUNITY WITH STATISTICS ABOUT ITS TRADE,+ SAID MR JORDAN.
WHERE HONG KONG WAS REQUIRED TO COMPLY WITH INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS, OR WHERE THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF THE CITIZENS OF HONG KONG WAS CONCERNED THERE WERE SOME RESTRICTIONS, BUT THESE WERE KEPT AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE IN THEIR APPLICATION.
CERTIFICATES OF HONG KONG ORIGIN OR THOSE PROVIDED TO ENABLE PREFERENTIAL DUTY TO BE CLAIMED IN IMPORTING COUNTRIES WERE ALSO ISSUED BY THE TRADE DEPARTMENT.
*BUT OFFICERS OF THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE DEPARTMENT VISIT FACTORIES, INSPECT GOODS AND VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY OF APPLICATIONS FROM BOOKS AND ACCOUNTS OF THE HONG KONG EXPORTERS,+ PR JORDAN POINTED OUT.
HE SAID THAT THE SYSTEM USED IN CERTIFICATION OF ORIGIN, IN PARTICULAR, WAS ONE OF THE BEST IN THE WORLD AND BY ITS INTEGRITY GREATLY FACILITATED THE TRADE OF HONG KONG.
THE DEPARTMENT IS ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TRADE DESCRIPTIONS ORDINANCE AND THE COPYRIGHT PROTECTION ORDINANCE.
+WITH THE FORMER WE ARE CONCERNED WITH DEFEATING ATTEMPTS TO COUNTERFEIT GOODS BY FALSE DESCRIPTION, AND WE ACT BOTH IN THE INTERESTS OF TRADE AND OF THE PURCHASER WHETHER THE OFFENDER PARTIES ARE CITIZENS OF HONG KONG OR NOT. WITH THE LATTER WE ARE PROTECTING COPYRIGHT PROPERTY OF THE NATURE OF AUDIO AND VIDEO CASSETTES AND OCCASIONALLY LITERARY WORKS,+ HE SAID.
+THE CITIZENS OF HONG KONG ARE GENERALLY LAW-ABIDING PEOPLE. THEY ARE HONEST IN TRADE JUST AS THEY ARE IN THEIR DAILY LIVES AS MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY. NEVERTHELESS, THERE IS HERE, AS THERE IS EVERYWHERE ELSE, A MINISCULE FRACTION OF THE COMMUNITY WHO WOULD ENDEAVOUR TO DEFEAT THE LAW FOR THEIR OWN NEFARIOUS GAINS.
+THE MOST DESPICABLE, OF COURSE, ARE THOSE WHO WOULD TRAFFIC IN NARCOTICS, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF HONG KONG'S 40 000 TO 50 000 ADDICTS, HE SAID.
IN THE ANTI-NARCOTICS FIELD THE PROFESSIONAL ENFORCEMENT FORCE OF THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE SERVICE HAD RECEIVED INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIM FOR THEIR SUCCESSES, MR JORDAN ADDED.
+THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE SERVICE HAS ALSO ACHIEVED ACCLAIM FOR THE SUCCESS IT HAS ATTAINED AGAINST PIRATED CASSETTE TAPES, AND IT MUST BE UNIQUE IN THAT IT HAS BEEN PRESENTED WITH NOT ONE BUT TWO GOLDEN DISCS BY THE RECORDING INDUSTRY IN RECOGNITION OF ITS EFFORTS IN THIS FIELD, HE CONTINUED.
THE WHOLE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE DEPARTMENT HAD UNDERGONE DRASTIC REORGANISATION TO MATCH THE NEEDS OF HONG KONG OF THE PRESENT AND OF THE FUTURE.
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