A report from Morning Information Direct Gross sales alleges that Jeunesse merchandise value 1.5 billion yuan had been seized on Might nineteenth.
The haul equates to $210 million {dollars} in seized stock, and is the second largest seizure of Jeunesse merchandise so far.
As per Morning Information Direct Sale’s report, Jeunesse’s merchandise had been being smuggled into China by a “legal group”.
This identical group was busted smuggling 4 billion yuan ($560 million USD) value of Jeunesse merchandise earlier in January.
As per an investigation lead by the Guangzhou Customs Bureau, Jeunesse’s merchandise are smuggled from America into China by way of id theft.
Within the early morning of Might 19, beneath the command of the Anti-smuggling Bureau of the Normal Administration of Customs, the Guangzhou Customs Anti-smuggling Bureau carried out a particular marketing campaign of “Preventing 12” to crack down on cross-border e-commerce smuggling of well being care merchandise, smashing the smuggling of imported well being merchandise utilizing cross-border e-commerce platforms 5 gangs, the preliminary estimated worth reached 1.5 billion yuan.
This batch of imported well being meals matches merchandise marketed by Jeunesse.
In keeping with the personnel of the anti-smuggling case, the model well being merchandise concerned within the case didn’t receive the related authorized working {qualifications} within the home market.
With a purpose to receive unlawful income, the smuggling gangs used the cross-border e-commerce platform to falsely report commerce strategies to smuggle and injury the authorized cross-border move.
The rights and pursuits of importers and exporters disrupt the traditional order of import and export commerce.
The large query right here is whether or not Jeunesse company had been conscious of the smuggling.
Simply on uncooked numbers alone it it appears implausible the corporate wouldn’t concentrate on nearly a billion {dollars} in product orders meant for the Chinese language market.
As per Ghanzhou Customs authorities, Jeunesse merchandise are smuggled into the nation by way of Tianyi Logistics Firm by Hong Kong.
From Hong Kong the merchandise are smuggled into Guangzhou, after which distributed nationally by Guangzhou Ruizang Buying and selling Co.
As well as, Jeunesse has warehouses in an industrial park in Shenzhen and a logistics park in Shanghai in an effort to distribute merchandise to all components of the nation.
On this case, Limou, the president of the Better China Area of Jeunesse Firm, was arrested, and the case was transferred to the inspection authorities by the anti-smuggling division for authorized evaluation and prosecution.
I imagine “Limou” refers to Robin Lee, Jeunesse’s President of Better China.
Along with Lee authorities have additionally arrested twenty-five suspects.
And yeah, now I’m fairly positive somebody at Jeunesse HQ within the US needed to have recognized what was occurring.
A corroborating report from Sina claims that Jeunesse merchandise are being marketed in China as a COVID-19 preventative.
Some Jeunesse sellers even mentioned {that a} sure president who had refused Jeunesse’s merchandise was remoted after being contaminated with the brand new coronavirus, and after seeing Jeunesse’s advertising and marketing, he selected to take its merchandise.
As per Morning Information Direct Gross sales’ report, Jeunesse has purportedly been smuggling merchandise into China for years.
The corporate doesn’t have an import license for China.
Jeunesse is just not a authorized direct promoting firm or a authorized import buying and selling firm in China, as a result of Jeunesse neither obtains the license of the Ministry of Commerce to have interaction in direct promoting enterprise nor has the gross sales qualification to promote imported merchandise.
Morning Information Direct Gross sales refers to Jeunesse because the “king of smuggling within the direct promoting trade”.
So far as I can inform Jeunesse company have but to publicly deal with latest developments in China.
Most likely a stretch to dismiss the smuggling as an act by rogue criminals if Jeunesse’s President of Better China was in on it.