30,000 illegally-imported pairs of trousers seized
published : 18 Mar 2024 at 08:47
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Online Reporters
Police have confiscated 30,000 pairs of elephant-patterned trousers from a warehouse in Bang Khuntien district of Bangkok.
The Economic Crime Suppression Division (ECD) inspected the warehouse on Sunday and seized 30,000 pairs of trousers worth at least 6 million baht as all were brought into the country without import tax payments.
The clothing was ready to be distributed or sold on online platforms to customers, the ECD said.
The ECD said police will order people in connection with the seized items to show evidence that import taxes had been paid or they would be charged.
Last month, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin was unhappy about the influx of the same trousers made in China into Thai markets as they could violate copyright. The Commerce Ministry later threatened to ban the Chinese clothing imports.
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- charge: to accuse someone officially of committing a crime - ตั้งข้อกล่าวหา
- confiscate: to officially remove someone’s possessions for legal reasons or as a punishment - ยึดทรัพย์
- copyright: the legal right to control the production and selling of a book, play, film, photograph or piece of music - ลิขสิทธิ์
- distribute: to give something out to many different places - แจกจ่าย
- evidence: facts statements or objects that help to prove whether or not someone has committed a crime - หลักฐาน
- import: to buy or bring in products from another country - นำเข้า
- influx: a large number of people or things coming in to a place - การหลั่งไหล การไหลบ่า (เข้าไปยังที่ใดที่หนึ่ง)
- platform (noun): a type of media or way of distributing information , e.g., websites, newspapers, magazines, video, etc. -
- seize (verb): to take control of by force or official power - ยึกครอง
- suppression: stopping illegal activity - การระงับ ปราบปราม
- taxes: money that you have to pay to the government so that it can pay for public services - ภาษี
- threaten (verb): to say or indicate that you might do something bad or harmful, especially in order to make someone do something - ขู่เข็ญ คุกคาม ทำให้กลัว
- violate: to do something that is against a law, rule or agreement - ฝ่าฝืน, ละเมิด
