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China Mounts Fight Against Used Clothing Markets
The State Administration for Quality Supervision and Quarantine has urged different localities to intensify efforts to screen and rectify used clothing markets within their regions and to shut down marketplaces trading imported used clothing, the "People's Daily" reported Tuesday.
For some time, markets have been selling imported used clothing, which was smuggled or brought into China via other illegal means and transported to the inland areas of the country from the coast.
Through investigations, the quality supervision department found that the imported used clothing is mostly from the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan, and was brought into the market in China 's inland areas from Hong Kong and Guangdong Province to be sold for very cheap.
An overwhelming majority of the imported used clothing has not been through legal import procedures or entry inspection and quarantine procedures, sources from the watchdog organization said.
It urged relevant quality control departments at different levels to carry out thorough investigations of the clothing markets, and to confiscate and destroy imported used clothing at public functions.
Sources from a recent meeting of the administration said that China prevented 436 million US dollars worth of substandard commodities from entering and exiting the country in the first half of this year.)
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