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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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MID-AUTUMN CARNIVALS FOR EASTERN RESIDENTS

**

SHARE THE JOY

THE

EASTERN DISTRICT RESIDENTS CAN GET TOGETHER TO THE MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL IN 10 CARNIVALS TO BE HELD THROUGHOUT DISTRICT FROM SATURDAY (SEPTEMBER 29) TO OCTOBER 7.

OF

THE CARNIVALS HAVE

BEEN

OFFICE, AREA COMMITTEES AND LOCAL ORGANISATIONS, $145,000 FROM THE DISTRICT BOARD.

ORGANISED BY THE

EASTERN DISTRICT WITH A SUBSIDY OF

RIDDLES, A LANTERN

DESIGN KARAOKE AND

THE PROGRAMMES WILL INCLUDE LANTERN COMPETITION, CHINESE HANDICRAFT DISPLAYS, VARIETY SHOWS, LUCKY DRAWS.

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