
Illegally imported tobacco impounded
HCM CITY (VNS)— Over 15,800 packets of smuggled tobacco were seized on Tuesday in an operation by the HCM City Market Watch Department to prevent smuggled tobacco from being traded in the city. The city’s operation is part of an ongoing nationwide campaign against tobacco smugglers held between April 1 and June 30, which was launched by the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Market Surveillance Agency on Tuesday. The move follows the Government’s directives on fighting cigarette smuggling to protect the domestic producers and local employees, and to ensure revenue for the State budget and social security. Typically, the Market Watch Team 3B, which checked tobacco trading in District 3′ s Ward 8, confiscated more than 1,800 packets of smuggled tobacco, whereas the Tan Phu Market Watch Team, which checked the trading in Tan Phu District’s Tay Thanh Ward, seized more than 6,000 packets of smuggled tobacco of different kinds.
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