From a legal perspective, daigou should be an entrustment relationship. Daigou provides services and is not responsible for the products. In theory, it is not necessary to accept returns. Generally speaking, purchasing on behalf of others is not illegal. As long as you declare and pay taxes to the customs, it is legal. However, purchasing agents who bring personal items into the country and then re-sell them are in a “blind spot” in supervision. According to the new customs regulations, purchasing a large amount of goods from overseas to evade taxes and fail to declare them in accordance with the law will be deemed as suspected of smuggling when a certain amount is reached. or criminal offence.
The State Food and Drug Administration also determined that “importing or selling imported cosmetics without approval or inspection” should be investigated and punished in accordance with the law. “Parallel imports” are the king of low prices but the supply is unstable. “Spot goods” all rely on sweeping goods, and what is swept is the local retail price. Even if you can get a tax refund, it is still different from tax exemption. Add in the intermediate procedures and transit fees. If The sales price on the e-commerce platform is not a discount, and it is difficult to obtain affordable goods.
Due to the huge demand of Chinese consumers for overseas products, purchasing agents have rushed to buy milk powder, diapers and other products that are in high demand among Chinese people in various places overseas. The purchasing agent phenomenon has brought chaos to the overseas milk powder industry. In Australia and Germany, Chinese purchasing agents and overseas students have swept across supermarkets, causing “milk shortages” that can be seen everywhere.
Case: Some supermarkets in Melbourne and Sydney use Chinese signs to limit the purchase of 2 cans of baby milk powder per person, but use English to prevent robberies from Chinese purchasing agents; in Munich, Germany, many Chinese We queued up at the supermarket at 8 a.m. to wait for milk powder to go on sale; in the Netherlands, two young men threw milk powder at Chinese people on the streets of Amsterdam in order to express their anger against purchasing agents.
Shi Mingde, the ambassador to Germany, said in an interview, “Some international students in Germany did not study hard and bought milk powder as a purchasing agent every day. They were reported by their neighbors and the police went to take a look and found that the floor of their house was filled with cardboard boxes. It’s milk powder. They said you were engaged in activities that were inconsistent with your identity and were expelled."