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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1989
RE-ORGANISATION RESULTS IN IMPROVED EFFICIENCY
*
AUGUST
THE RE-ORGANISATION OF THE CUSTOMS
THIS YEAR HAS LED TO A
WITHIN THE INTELLIGENCE
DEPARTMENT, CUSTOMS AND EXCISE, MR K.S. TONG, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
AND EXCISE DEPARTMENT IN BETTER USE OF MANPOWER
THE ACTING COMMISSIONER
AND
OF
HE SAID THIS HAD
IN
TURN
IMPROVED
THE EFFICIENCY
OF
THE
DEPARTMENT.
IN WHICH A DEPARTMENT BY
CEREMONY PRESENTATION MR TONG WAS SPEAKING AT A PLAQUE AND A COMMEMORATIVE PLATE WERE PRESENTED TO THE THE HONG KONG RICE MERCHANT ENTERPRISE LTD, IN RECOGNITION OF EFFORTS IN A RECENT CASE INVOLVING COUNTERFEIT SOY SAUCE.
CUSTOMS
IN
PROTECTING HE SAID THE GOVERNMENT, REALISING THE IMPORTANCE OF CONSUMER RIGHTS AND
HONG MAINTAINING
KONG'S GOOD REPUTATION ITS RESOURCES IN CLAMPING OVERSEAS MARKETS, HAD BEEN USING MUCH OF DOWN ON COUNTERFEITING ACTIVITIES.
HE POINTED OUT THAT THE
ILLEGAL
BY THE ACTIVITIES
VIGOROUS
ACTION ENFORCEMENT
THESE HAD BROUGHT DEPARTMENT IN THE PAST YEARS UNDER CONTROL THOUGH SOME HAD GONE UNDERGROUND.
MR TONG SAID
THE
DEPARTMENT
WOULD CERTAINLY
CONTINUE то DO
COMPLACENT WITH ITS ACHIEVEMENT AND WOULD IN ELIMINATING ALL SUCH ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES.
SAUCE WAS BROUGHT THE CASE OF THE COUNTERFEIT SOY WHEN THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE DEPARTMENT RECEIVED A COMPLAINT HONG KONG RICE MERCHANT ENTERPRISE LTD IN AUGUST THIS YEAR.
NOT ITS BEST
BE
то
LIGHT FROM THE
INVESTIGATION
THE
ACTING ON THE COMPLAINT, CUSTOMS OFFICERS OF THE BRANCH LAUNCHED A TERRITORY-WIDE OPERATION WITH A VIEW TO TRACING IDENTITY OF THE OFFENDER AND THE SOURCES OF THE FAKE GOODS.
BOTTLES
THIS YEAR. THE
AS A RESULT, CUSTOMS OFFICERS SEIZED MORE THAN 60,000
IN OCTOBER OF SOY SAUCE BEARING A FORGED TRADEMARK VALUE OF THE SEIZURE AMOUNTED TO OVER $230,000.
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