Of course, this is just a stopgap measure. I am still investigating Wick. After all, Wick cannot be regarded as my own. I dare not entrust Wick with many things. In the future, I think I can completely control Wick, or Said that I was relieved of him, and maybe Wick could be allowed to take over from Bucktooth to do some things.
The news Wick brought to me was not bad. Tonight he had dinner with a customs chief and gave him a small present. A pure gold paperweight!
Speaking of customs... If I want to expand my smuggling business, then customs is a must for me, a difficulty that must be overcome! !
Many people may think that the so-called smuggling business is to get a few boats, transport and sell goods between countries, avoid the border navy, guards, and anti-smuggling armed forces on the coast, and then drive the boat to other countries. On the shores of the country, trading with others, or trading on the high seas...
This is indeed a channel for smuggling business, but it only occupies a very small part!
It can be said that smuggling occurs in almost any country in the world! Even those countries and regions that claim to have zero tariffs also have smuggling! Smuggling is not only to evade the country's tariffs to earn huge profits, but also to smuggle some local prohibited items.
For example, for many cheap goods from China, the United States is afraid that too many cheap Chinese products entering the American market will affect the order of their market and have an impact on American companies, so there are some anti-dumping laws that restrict some Chinese products. The goods enter the US market... In this case, the only way for these Chinese goods to enter the US market is through smuggling.
Want to sue the US government for trade barriers through an international court? Unfair competition? Okay, you can sue! This kind of relationship, within a few years, is impossible to sue! In a few years, even if you finally win the case, the day lily will be cold!
The most famous example is that the domestic color TV industry developed rapidly back then, with a huge output. China’s labor force was cheap, and the cost of color TVs was extremely low. A large number of low-cost color TVs were dumped abroad, especially in Europe and the United States. Anti-dumping bill! Restrict China's color TV exports to their countries.
In the end, several domestic color TV giants joined forces to file a lawsuit with them... After so many years, no one paid attention to whether the lawsuit was won or not... because the picture tube color TV in those days has long been eliminated, and now everyone has Started using LCD TVs. So, after so many years, even if those Chinese companies win the lawsuit? so what? What a waste of effort!
Few people may know that there was a time when smuggled Chinese color TVs were very popular abroad!
Under such circumstances, some prohibited items cannot enter some areas, so the only way to rely on smuggling is!
As for the smuggling channels, except for some of the smuggling groups' own boat transportation... In fact, a large part of the smuggled goods are passed in and out through the country's formal customs channels and formal import and export business!
For example, what is smuggling? You set up a company, then make a bill, and go to the customs to declare that there is such a batch of goods to be exported to foreign countries... For example, on the receipt you give to the customs, it is written that it is the cheapest slag, so good, the customs will Collect your taxes according to the cheapest slag! But in fact, what is in your container is not slag at all, but a product whose price is a hundred times or even a thousand times higher than slag!
In this way, the tax you evade will become your amazing profit!
So, is the customs blind? Won't you check
Will check! But will not check.
The operation process of customs is unknown to most outsiders. For example, in a port city like Vancouver, the port does not know how many tons of cargo ships of 100,000 tons and one million tons come in and out every day, and how many thousands of containers come in and out... every day! How many people can the customs have? a thousand people? Two thousand people
How many inspectors are actually on site? one hundred? two hundred
With this kind of people, it is possible to open and inspect so many ships and thousands of containers that come in and out every day? In each container, I don't know how many boxes, how many boxes... Maybe the customs will open all of these one by one for inspection? Obviously impossible! !
The real way the customs handles affairs is that all import and export companies will have a credit rating in the customs. From high to low, there will be files in the computer.
Customs adopts the method of "spot checks by grade" for the goods imported and exported every day.
For example, for the goods of 100 companies, those with high credit ratings will take 1 percent, and those with low credit ratings will take 3 to 5 percent.
After all the import and export declaration documents are collected at the customs, all the goods enter the designated storage yard of the customs, and then those documents will be transferred to a special complex inspection department of the customs. At this time, the inspection department will follow the credit Level, among tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of goods, hundreds of goods are selected for inspection every day!
This is the biggest loophole! It can be said that even if you are a stunned young man, even if the contents of your container are ammunition, they are drugs! As long as you are lucky and lucky, it just so happens that the customs did not find your goods this time, and your goods went out, which means you have successfully smuggled! !
This is impossible. The cargo throughput of a country and a port is really huge and almost astronomical! Even if you let the customs staff stay awake for 24 hours, and everyone is so tired that they vomit blood, it is absolutely impossible to check all the goods! Absolutely impossible! !
So, this loophole is a smuggling channel commonly used by smuggling groups around the world. They declare tax evasion goods, or prohibited items, to the customs in the name of legal, low-tax goods... As long as the customs does not spot check their goods, the goods will go out without anyone noticing.
Of course, a smuggling group with a real business will not put all the risks on "luck"!
Indeed, the proportion of spot checks by the customs is very small. You may not be found a hundred times, but if you are found for the one hundred and first time...then you are finished! The smuggling group is not so stupid. If it is purely luck, everyone will inevitably be unlucky.
At this time, under such circumstances, the officials in the inspection departments of the customs have almost become hens that can lay golden eggs! !
As long as you can find a way to bribe those customs officials who have special powers... Before the declared cargo documents are extracted for inspection... Among so many documents, someone quietly thought of a way to gather those for inspection In the documents... the documents that let you declare the goods "disappear" silently.
Everything is OK! Just imagine, if all your documents have disappeared, no matter how much the customs collects and checks, it is impossible to get your goods! !
To say a very real word, it is recognized all over the world: the customs of any country is the richest place where oil flows! ! !
Why should I go the route of customs
Indeed, it is still at the level of collecting protection fees. But I can't keep letting myself be a layman! I think if you really get involved in the smuggling industry, you won't be able to live on protection fees forever. Another point is that the Huaxing company, I name it as an ocean-going international trading company. In name, this company is also doing import and export trade.
I also plan to take part in some businesses myself, some of them are trying to do smuggling, and the other part, of course, are doing some legitimate business, even if it’s just to deceive people.
I have a legal company, so the huge profits I collect, the huge protection fees... can flow into my pocket through legitimate channels!
This is no joke! The word "money laundering" has always been a problem that plagues gangs all over the world.
Especially in western countries. To be fair, the laws of western developed countries are better than our domestic laws. Especially when it comes to tax regulations.
To use an analogy, most people in the country do not have a concept yet, which is the problem of large amounts of property of unknown origin.
In western developed countries, if you have a large amount of property but cannot explain the source of the wealth, then this is also a crime! For any wealth, the state must extract a certain amount of taxes. Where did you get your money from? If you earn from work, well, then your company will help you file for the record to make your income legal. Your money is gifted by others, so it’s very good, you have to pay taxes on the gift, and it’s yours to prove that the money is legal! Your money is won by buying a lottery, so you must also register and pay taxes with the cooperation of the lottery agency.
Always, your money must have a legal income channel, then pay taxes, and finally, you can use the money legally.
Well, now Huaxing, a company, may receive protection fees of nearly 100 million U.S. dollars from the smuggling syndicate every year... This money, legally speaking, is black money! !
It is impossible for me to transfer the money directly into my account or into the account of my brother. The foreign banking system and taxation system are very strict.
Then, the money must have a legal source of income.