Western China Legal Report – 2

From: sangbe.com

Cigarettes are a powerful measure to safeguard national interests and consumer interests. “Online ordering, electronic settlement, express delivery” has now become a new form of illicit cigarette sales of counterfeit cigarettes. In the field of logistics delivery, illegal activities involving cigarettes have become increasingly rampant, seriously disrupting the order of the cigarette market, and damaging national interests and consumer interests.

In 2017, the Baota District Tobacco Monopoly Bureau and our company (Yan’an Post Branch) strengthened the negotiation, communication, and information sharing, and used our company’s mail processing center as a must-have for the import and export of mail. Channels to send counterfeit cigarettes to counterfeiting and joint inspection activities. Increased efforts to crack down on illegal delivery activities have effectively protected national interests and consumer interests.

——Bao Ta District Post Office Jia Jianhong

In 2018, our public security department will work with law enforcement agencies such as tobacco, transportation, and postal services to crack down on the sale of counterfeit cigarettes through logistics delivery channels, and severely punish sales and purchase of counterfeit cigarettes via WeChat, QQ, and Taobao, and increase Collaboration of departments to play a joint anti-counterfeiting long-term mechanism to form a counterfeit joint force, and always maintain a high pressure of counterfeiting cigarettes, to carry out special centralized rectification of logistics delivery channels in line with local conditions, at the same time play a logistics and inspection center functions, increase daily supervision, for suspected illegal acts, Resolutely crack down on or pursue the criminal responsibility of the parties and never tolerate it.

——Liu Mingchuan, Head of Economic Investigation Team, Huangling County Public Security Bureau

In safeguarding the rights and interests of consumers, we are consistent with the starting point of the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau, which is based on laws such as the “Consumer Protection Law” and “Tobacco Monopoly Law”, and step up publicity efforts to make it more detailed and more operational. Rights protection methods and channels are passed to consumers, giving consumers legal support and creating a positive and orderly consumption environment.

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