A woman recently purchased 40,000 bottles of Starbucks coffee drinks for 190,000 Yuan at a Tianjin Customs auction. Starbucks has become quite a popular brand for smugglers in Beijing and Tianjin. Tianjin Customs has recently filed five Starbucks product smuggling related cases involving more than 25 million Yuan worth of coffee products.
Tianjin Customs auctioned off 1,680 cases of Starbucks bottled drinks with 24 bottles per case. The drinks needed to be sold quickly and cheaply: 700 cases will expire on March 4, 2016, 140 cases expire on March 7, and 840 of the cases will expire on August 2.
The starting price was 187,645 Yuan, and a middle-aged woman won the cases for 190,000 Yuan.
The Tianjin Customs Bureau said that the companies suspected of smuggling Starbucks products to Tianjin and Beijing are mainly food import companies. The companies often make illegal profits by hiding the real transaction prices, and recording purchasing prices as lower than they are in reality. They are then able to illegally pocket the difference.
Source: inews.qq.com
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Import company buys the product at wholesale price. Sells to Chinese distributor at a slightly marked up price. On the import documents they write a lower price in order to avoid the ridiculously high import taxes. (don't be surprised if these items are also counterfeit) It's not difficult to understand. This has nothing to do with the manufacturer. I honestly feel sorry for these companies trying to sell imports. Import taxes are stifling their efforts to do business and inflating consumer costs.
Feb 17, 2016 23:06 Report Abuse
Starbucks is corporate owned and thus resistant to corporate espionage... How mainlanders escape the rule of law and ownership.
Feb 17, 2016 22:40 Report Abuse
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