Customs in both places successfully eliminated fruit smuggling gangs. How should smuggling be punished?

Smuggling refers to violating relevant national laws and regulations, evading the supervision and supervision of national customs, evading taxes, and transporting relevant goods in and out of national borders through illegal channels. Smuggling will not only damage the country's sovereignty and dignity, have an impact on national security, but also impact the normal market economic order and affect national finance and taxation, so it must be punished and supervised.

On January 1, 2021, Nanning Customs in Guangxi and Huangpu Customs in Guangdong carried out joint law enforcement, focusing on investigating fruit smuggling, successfully uncovered 3 smuggling gangs, arrested 8 suspects, and the amount involved was approximately 606. billion yuan. It has greatly combated fruit smuggling from Southeast Asia to China and ensured the stability of the national economic order.

As mentioned at the beginning, smuggling is extremely harmful and needs to be severely punished. First of all, smuggling will damage national sovereignty and even endanger national security. Customs is the country’s main agency for supervising import and export trade, and it also represents the country’s sovereignty and image to a certain extent. To evade customs supervision through illegal means is to disregard the country’s sovereignty and image. Unsupervised smuggling can even smuggle items such as weapons, drugs, national cultural relics, etc., which can seriously endanger the safety of the country and ordinary people.

Secondly, smuggling will damage the country’s economic and tax revenue. The collection of tariffs on incoming and outgoing goods is one of the country's economic sources. As China's trade exchanges with other countries become larger and larger, the tariff revenue involved will also become increasingly heavy. Whether it is for personal or other purposes, evading customs supervision, evading taxes and smuggling goods are all acts that infringe on national interests.

In addition, smuggling will also undermine the country’s normal market economic order. As these items that are tax evaded through unfair means flow into or out of the country, due to their price and cost advantages, there is a high probability that they will impact the market economy at prices far lower than the normal market price. Business units that originally produced normally will suffer losses or even be forced to do so due to unfair competition. This will eventually cause huge damage to the market economy and will inevitably affect the vital interests of the people.

Therefore, any smuggling behavior that evades state supervision must be severely cracked down to prevent a series of harm. Ordinary people should also consciously resist smuggling, not only to protect national interests, but also to protect their own interests.