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Banned used clothing sales rampant in Guangdong
By Jane Chen |
October 20, 2009, Tuesday
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A TOWN in south China's Guangdong Province has become a center of the banned trade in second-hand clothing imports.
More than 10,000 businesses were dealing in the trade in Jieshi Town, Lufeng City, with around 100 million imported garments estimated to have been distributed across the nation last year, China's state television CCTV reported.
An undercover CCTV interview learned that wholesalers in Jieshi sold the clothes for 7 yuan (US$1.03) to 12 yuan each after cleaning, ironing and labeling. Retailers from across the country then sold them as new clothes costing hundreds of yuan.
Disinfection was never carried out because it is too expensive, CCTV quoted insiders as saying.
Loopholes in the country's policies were blamed for the rampant illegal trade. Businesses can get around the ban by importing the clothes as raw material, which is legal, insiders told CCTV.
The local government has launched several campaigns to stop the trade with nearly 100 crackdowns in the past two years. In July, about 120 tons of second-hand clothes were seized.
More than 10,000 businesses were dealing in the trade in Jieshi Town, Lufeng City, with around 100 million imported garments estimated to have been distributed across the nation last year, China's state television CCTV reported.
An undercover CCTV interview learned that wholesalers in Jieshi sold the clothes for 7 yuan (US$1.03) to 12 yuan each after cleaning, ironing and labeling. Retailers from across the country then sold them as new clothes costing hundreds of yuan.
Disinfection was never carried out because it is too expensive, CCTV quoted insiders as saying.
Loopholes in the country's policies were blamed for the rampant illegal trade. Businesses can get around the ban by importing the clothes as raw material, which is legal, insiders told CCTV.
The local government has launched several campaigns to stop the trade with nearly 100 crackdowns in the past two years. In July, about 120 tons of second-hand clothes were seized.
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