Ghoul
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Kinda agree with Zebedee though.. lol Pangea happens almost every year and they always bust imports, warehouses and labs. It's not as if they got some special new tech (which is always advancing anyway), but this is constant. The EU has also been wary about competition and counterfeit stuff from china. They didn't use tech this year. They simply used bargaining. Aliexpress was one of the sponspors for Euros, and in return, counterfeit Jerseys became non existent on Aliexpress and many Larger platforms like Temu. One had to seek out smaller scam prone sellers.. I digress..
The US participates in Pangea, and a quick look at the Pct24 and PctZone threads will show a massive uptick in seized packages coinciding with what we now know was the most recent Pangea, and the large deadly drug bust.
This is largely a US centric issue, and I should've put that in the thread title. UK & EU isn't losing 100,000 prime age Americans annually to fentanyl of Chinese origin, nor does it have the widespread abuse of an $800 per small package duty exemption. For example, it was discovered that numerous Chinese owned factories in the US are being supplied with raw materials, $800 duty free worth at a time, by each factory employee receiving a daily package in their name, rather than the company name and be subject to import duty. The total revenue losses are staggering across a billion annual packs. And while highly capable CT scanners are beginning to appear across European airports, eliminating the need to remove anything from carryons, as they can detect all potentially threatening materials, an indicator of a major breakthrough in the cheapest CT scanners since thousands are required, that capability clearly has other uses and is undoubtedly far greater in machines costing 20x as much.
As far as I've seen, only the US has allocated the tens of billions of new money necessary to outfit customs with that equipment, new facilities, and personell. To cap it off, a new $2 per package "security fee" will bolster the ongoing effort to return customs ability to scrutinize parcel traffic to the way it could just ten years ago, when the volume of parcels was only 1/10th of what it is today.
Euros already understand the near impossibility of receiving India Pharma shipments, while legit packages get through (all appropriately taxed, of course). It shouldn't be beyond one's imagination that the US can, with enough motivation and financial incentive, do the same with Chinese packages.
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