MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1990
REMINDER CONCERNING EXPORT OF STRATEGIC COMMODITJES
THE CUSTOMS
AND
EXCISE
DEPARTMENT
TRADERS THAT THE EXPORT OF STRATEGIC COMMODITIES
PROSCRIBED COUNTRIES
IS PROHIBITED
UNDER
(STRATEGIC COMMODITIES) REGULATIONS.
WAS
TODAY
(MONDAY) FROM HONG KONG TO THE IMPORT AND EXPORT
REMINDED
FINED $500,000
AT SHA TIN FIVE TO ACCORDANCE
A SHA TIN TRADING COMPANY
AFTER PLEADING GUILTY MAGISTRACY ON FRIDAY (SEPTEMBER 21) COUNTS OF EXPORTING STRATEGIC COMMODITIES NOT UNDER AND IN WITH AN EXPORT LICENCE REQUIRED BY THE REGULATIONS,
DEPARTMENT DISCOVERED DURING AN INVESTIGATION
THE COURT HEARD THAT AN
OFFICER
THAT THE DEFENDANT
EXPORTED
TO
RUSSIA
HAD COMPANY
VIA BANGKOK
OF THE
AND CUSTOMS
JANUARY IN
AND
EXCISE
THIS YEAR
DECEMBER, COMPRISING
1989,
206
JULY BETWEEN
FIVE SHIPMENTS
COMPUTERS AND PERIPHERALS.
WHILE THE COMPUTERS
AND
WERE PERIPHERALS
CLASSIFIED AS
PRODUCTS OF
REGULATIONS, THE DEFENDANT COMPANY FALSELY STATED THE GOODS AS
STRATEGIC COMMODITIES UNDER THE HAD IN ONE OF THE SHIPMENTS LOW-END MODELS WHICH REQUIRED NO EXPORT LICENCE.
SHIPMENTS,
THE
HAD OF THE LANKA WHICH
COMPANY DEFENDANT IN THE OTHER FOUR OBTAINED SIX EXPORT LICENCES WHICH ONLY AUTHORISED THE EXPORT GOODS TO FRANCE, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY AND SRI WERE NOT PROSCRIBED COUNTRIES.
THE TOTAL INVOICE VALUE OF THE GOODS WAS $2.76 MILLION.
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BEEN
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