Announcement No. 194 of 2018 of the General Administration of Customs on the Supervision of Cross-border E-commerce Retail Import and Export Commodities stipulates that:
(1) Cross-border e-commerce platform enterprises, cross-border e-commerce enterprises or their agents, logistics enterprises, operators of cross-border e-commerce supervision work sites, and warehousing enterprises shall promptly and proactively inform the customs if they discover suspected violations or smuggling;
(2) Enterprises involved in cross-border e-commerce business suspected of smuggling or violating customs supervision regulations shall cooperate with customs investigations and disclose transaction production data or original record data.
Customs shall punish enterprises that violate this announcement, participate in the creation or transmission of false transaction, payment, and logistics “three orders” information, facilitate secondary sales, fail to dutifully review the authenticity of consumer (orderer) identity information, etc., resulting in the theft of personal identity information or annual purchase quotas, secondary sales, and other violations of customs supervision regulations.
Those suspected of smuggling or violations shall be handled by the customs in accordance with the law; if a crime is constituted, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law. For those who use other citizens’ identity information to illegally engage in cross-border e-commerce retail import business, the customs will treat it as a smuggling violation and transfer it to the relevant departments for handling in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations on illegal use of citizens’ information.
For those who are not suspected of smuggling violations and are found for the first time, they will be interviewed or their business will be suspended and ordered to rectify; if they are found again, they will not be allowed to engage in cross-border e-commerce retail import business for a certain period of time, and will be handed over to other industry authorities for investigation and punishment in accordance with regulations.