Of course, this is just a stopgap measure, I am still investigating Wick, after all, Wick can't be regarded as his own person, I don't dare to leave many things to Wick to do, and in the future I feel that I can completely control Wick, or I am relieved of him, maybe I can let Wick take over the Bucktooth Period to do something.

Wick had good news for me, and tonight he had dinner with a customs officer, and then gave him a small gift. A paperweight of pure gold!

Speaking of customs...... If I want to make the smuggling business bigger, then customs is an indispensable hurdle for me to overcome!!

Many people may think that the so-called smuggling business is to get a few boats by themselves, transport goods between countries and sell them, avoid the border navy, jǐng guards, and anti-smuggling forces on the coast, and then sail the ships to the shore of other countries to trade with others, or trade on the high seas......

It's a smuggling business, but it's only a tiny fraction of it!

It can be said that there is smuggling in almost any country in the world! Even those countries and regions that claim to have zero tariffs have smuggling! Smuggling is not only about evading national customs duties to make huge profits, but also about smuggling some local contraband.

Let's take an analogy. The United States has some anti-dumping bills for many cheap goods from China, because it is afraid that too many cheap Chinese products entering the US market will affect their market order and will have an impact on American enterprises. Restricting access to the U.S. market for some Chinese goods...... In this case, the only way for these Chinese goods to enter the U.S. market is through smuggling.

Want to sue the U.S. for trade barriers through an international tribunal? Unfair competition? Yes, you can go and sue! This kind of relationship, without a few years, can't be stopped! In a few years, even if you win in the end, the daylily will be cold!

The most famous example,The domestic color TV industry developed rapidly。 The output is huge, the labor force in China is cheap, and the cost of color TVs is extremely low. A large number of low-cost color TVs are dumped abroad, especially in Europe and the United States, and as a result, anti-dumping bills in Europe and the United States have been introduced! Restrict the export of Chinese color TVs to their countries.

In the end, several domestic color TV giants jointly fought a lawsuit with them...... After so many years, the lawsuit has not been won. No one is paying attention anymore...... Because the CRT color TV of that year has long been eliminated, and now people have begun to use LCD TVs. So. After so many years, even if those Chinese companies win the lawsuit? So what? In vain!

Few people may know that there was a time when smuggling Chinese color TVs abroad was very popular!

In this case, some prohibited items cannot enter some areas, so you can only rely on the channel of smuggling!

And the channels of smuggling. Except for some of the smuggling syndicates that get their own land and ship transportation...... In fact, a large part of the smuggled goods are simply circulated through the country's regular customs channels, and the import and export business is circulated in and out!

For example, what is smuggling? You set up a company, and then you make a list and go to the customs to declare that there is such a batch of goods to be exported abroad...... For example, if you give the customs office the cheapest slag, then good, the customs will charge your tax based on the cheapest slag! But in fact, your container is not filled with slag at all, but products whose price is a hundred or even a thousand times higher than that of slag!

In this way, the taxes you evade will become your amazing profits!

So, is the customs blind? Won't you check it?

Will check! But I won't check it either.

The vast majority of outsiders do not know the operation process of customs. For example, in a port city like Vancouver, the port does not know how many 10,000 tons, 100,000 tons, and 100,000 tons of cargo ships enter and exit every day, and I don't know how many tens of thousands of containers enter and exit...... Every day! How many people can there be at customs? A thousand? Two thousand?

How many inspectors can actually be on site? Hundred? Two hundred?

Relying on this, people may open and inspect so many ships and containers that come in and out every day? I don't know how many boxes and how many boxes are in each container...... The customs may open all of them one by one for inspection? Apparently impossible!!

The real way for customs to do things is that all import and export companies will have a credit rating in the customs. From the highest to the highest, there will be files in the computer.

For the goods entering and leaving every day, the customs adopts the practice of "graded spot checks".

For example, for the goods of 100 companies, one percent will be taken for those with a high credit rating, and three to five percent for those with a low credit rating.

After all the import and export documents are collected to the customs, all the goods enter the designated yard of the customs, and then, those documents will flow to a special complex inspection department of the customs, at this time, the inspection department will be according to the credit rating, in the tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of goods, every day to draw out hundreds of goods to check!

That's the biggest loophole! It can be said that even if you are a stunned young man, even if your container contains even arms and drugs! As long as you are lucky, good luck is on the head, it just so happens that this time the customs did not find your goods, and your goods went out, this is considered your smuggling success!!

This is something that can't be helped, the cargo throughput of a country and a port is really a huge and almost astronomical amount! Even if you let the customs people stay up 24 hours a day, and everyone is so tired that they vomit blood, it will never be possible to check all the goods! When pigs fly!!

Therefore, this loophole is a smuggling channel commonly used by smuggling groups all over the world. They declare the goods that have been evaded from taxes, or prohibited goods, to the customs in the name of a legal, low-tax goods...... As long as the customs does not spot check their goods, the goods will go out without realizing it.

Of course, a smuggling syndicate that does a big business will not put all the risks on "luck!"

It is true that the proportion of customs spot checks is very small, maybe a hundred times you are not found, but the one hundred and one times you are found...... Then you're finished! The smuggling syndicate is not so stupid, if it is purely lucky, everyone will inevitably have bad luck.

At this time, under such circumstances, the officials in the departments responsible for inspection at the customs have almost become hens that can lay golden eggs!!

As long as you can find a way to buy off customs officials who have special powers...... Before the declared cargo documents are drawn out for inspection...... In so many documents, someone quietly thought of a way to gather those documents that were ready to be extracted and examined...... Let the documents of your declared goods "disappear" silently.

That's it! Just imagine, your documents are gone, so no matter how the customs extracts, no matter how much you spot check, it is impossible to draw your goods!!

To put it mildly, it is recognized all over the world: the customs of any country is the richest place to flow oil!!

Why should I go the customs route?

Indeed, it is still at the level of collecting protection fees. But I can't keep myself a layman! If I want to really meddle in the smuggling industry, I can't rely on protection money forever. Another point, Huaxing, this company, I am a Sino-Ocean International Trade Company, nominally, this company is also engaged in import and export trade.

I'm also going to get involved in some business on my own, some of them trying to smuggle, and some of them, of course, doing some legitimate business, even if it's just to hide it.

I have a legitimate company, so I charge a lot of profits, those huge amount of protection fees...... Only then can there be a way to flow into my pocket through the proper channels!

It's no joke! Money laundering has always been a problem for gangsters all over the world.

Especially in Western countries. To be fair, the laws of developed countries in the West are more perfect than those in China. Especially in the area of tax regulations.

For example, the majority of the people in China do not have a concept of large amounts of property from unknown sources.

In the developed countries of the West, if you have a large amount of property, but you cannot explain the source of this wealth, then this is also a crime! For any wealth, the state has to extract a certain amount of taxes. Where did you get your money? If you earn money at work, then your company will help you file and make your income legal. Your money was given by someone else, so it's good, the gift also has to pay taxes, and it proves that the money is legitimate, it's yours! If you win your money by buying a lottery ticket, then you must also register and pay taxes with the cooperation of the lottery's agency.

Always, your money, you have to have a legal source of income, then pay taxes, and finally, you can use that money legally.

Now, then, Huaxing, a company, may receive nearly $100 million in protection fees from the smuggling syndicate every year...... This money, legally speaking, is black money!!

I can't just transfer the money directly into my account, into my brother's account, the foreign banking system, the tax system is very tight.

Then, there must be a legitimate source of income for this money.