Bought $250000 of goods constitute a crime of smuggling act as purchasing agency shop owner was sentenced to criminal detention for three months

'Crime suspect zhang smuggling ordinary goods convicted, sentenced to criminal detention for three months, suspended for a month, a fine of ten thousand yuan', until I heard the judge's verdict, ms zhang still to myself why why will appear in court, to feel some vacant. In the cognition of ms zhang, himself a taobao 代购商, how a good buy on sb's behalf as smuggling hung up the side? The reporter understands, now many people use overseas Courier and take work starts from the way the act as purchasing agency business. Act as purchasing agency who most believe their behavior and there is nothing illegal, but the actual situation is not the case. The judge read out in court state laws and regulations, when individual or collective through customs tax evasion amount exceeds ten thousand yuan, make up the smuggling crime. Ms zhang bought the main way is through piggyback, her two years ago in taobao registered a south Korean cosmetics act as purchasing agency shop, the main sales of products is the south Korean cosmetics and skincare products. Later, in an accidental opportunity, ms zhang met a south Korean supplier, the other party said to Mrs. Zhang straight for the south Korean cosmetics. As a result, ms zhang will save a lot of cost, and will not produce backlog of inventory, so she gratefully accepted each other's proposal. After take online, zhang through QQ contact the supplier with South Korea after receiving orders from customers, or entrust with each other through international Courier products to domestic, received by ms zhang. Police contact wuxi customs verification, in the next two years, ms zhang ten thousand yuan had smuggled goods, tax evasion amount for a total of about ten thousand yuan. Due to its amount is more than ten thousand yuan, so the court has sentenced a woman convicted of smuggling. Act as purchasing agency phenomenon exists widely in the network, as to act as purchasing agency shop bought wholesale channels, each store's explanation is not the same. Most stores are taboo, for the problem about the owner also act as purchasing agency is not clear what is the legal behavior, xiao-hang li case, after all, the second is just the past. Edit: small xing: anhui