With the development of cross-border e-commerce, some citizens let live animals or specimens enter the country through carrying, mailing and other channels, camouflage, concealment, and false declaration of entry information, trying to fool through the "customs". The General Administration of Customs reported several recent cases of interception of live animals and specimens illegally entering the country.
Xiamen Customs and its affiliated post office customs recently intercepted 5 live beetles in the inbound package. After identification, these beetles are commonly known as "Hercules" Hercules Euphorbia macrophyllum, which is also the first time that such beetles have been seized at the Xiamen port.
With a recorded adult body length of 184 mm, The Hercules Longifolium is the longest beetle in the world and one of the largest. It is extremely powerful, can lift objects that are 850 times its own weight, and is known as "Hercules" and is favored by beetle lovers.
Customs reminds that live animals mailed in from abroad are very easy to carry bacteria, viruses and other pathogenic microorganisms, which have an impact on China's ecological environment and the health of the masses, and belong to the "List of Animals and Plants and Their Products Prohibited from Being Carried and Mailed into China" prohibited from being mailed into the country, and the relevant laws and regulations should be understood before online shopping, so as to jointly protect China's ecological balance and the health and safety of the masses, while avoiding personal losses.
Cases of carrying or mailing live animals and specimens from abroad in an attempt to cross the border in disguise occur from time to time.
Zhengzhou Customs affiliated to Zhengzhou Airport Customs staff recently found in the supervision, a ticket of declared products named "hand cream" express mail machine inspection image is abnormal, after opening and dismantling inspection found that the actual items in the express mail for children's toys tambourine 1, tambourine contains 204 test tubes, each test tube is equipped with 1 live ant, the body length of about 1 cm.
Coincidentally, the Changbei Airport Customs, which belongs to Nanchang Customs, also seized 9 live beetles in 1 inbound parcel. When the customs officer of Changbei Airport was supervising the incoming mail, he found a suspicious image of a CT passing of an email declared as "Cup". After opening and inspection, it was found that the mail was actually 9 round plastic containers containing live beetles. After identification, the 9 insects in this batch are all Indonesian golden spade nails.
Since live animals are not allowed to enter the country, can they bring and mail animal specimens into the country? According to the relevant provisions of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Quarantine of Animals and Plants Entering and Leaving the Country and the Directory of Animals and Plants and Their Products Prohibited from Being Carried or Mailed into China, animal specimens are also prohibited from being carried or mailed into China.
In February this year, the post office of Chongqing Customs temporarily seized a batch of parcels totaling 160 insect specimens. After identification, the insect specimens involved 13 families, including the Golden Turtle Family, the Celestial Bull Family, and the Weevil Family. Among them, there are no distribution records in China of 6 families and 26 species, such as black-breasted tianniu, philopic tianniu, wild deer-like tianniu, and white-spotted imitation tianniu.
Customs reminds: In order to prevent the introduction of animal and plant diseases and harmful organisms, and to protect China's agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery production and public health security, according to the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Quarantine of Animals and Plants Entering and Leaving the Country" and the "List of Animals and Plants Prohibited from Being Carried and Mailed into China" and the relevant provisions of the "List of Animals and Plants prohibited from being carried and mailed into the country", it is forbidden to carry and mail all kinds of live animals and animal specimens into the country, so as to jointly protect China's ecological balance and the health and safety of the masses.
Upstream News-Chongqing Morning News reporter Li Shu intern Lai Pingping