{"id":42253,"date":"2022-03-08T18:57:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T09:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/08\/uk-faces-fine-eu-chinese-imports"},"modified":"2022-03-08T18:57:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T09:57:31","slug":"uk-faces-large-eu-bill-over-chinese-imports-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42253","title":{"rendered":"UK faces large EU bill over Chinese imports fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Court rules government failed to fulfil obligation to collect correct amount of customs duties and VAT<\/p>\n<p>The British government faces paying a hefty charge to the EU after the European court of justice ruled it had been negligent in allowing criminal gangs to flood European markets with cheap Chinese-made clothes and shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Publishing its final ruling on Tuesday, the court concluded that the UK as member state had \u201cfailed to fulfil its obligations\u201d under EU law to combat fraud and collect the correct amount of customs duties and VAT on imported Chinese goods. The failures by HMRC date from 2011 to 2017.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/08\/uk-faces-fine-eu-chinese-imports\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court rules government failed to fulfil obligation to collect correct amount of customs duties and VATThe British government faces paying a hefty charge to the EU after the European court of justice ruled it had been negligent in allowing criminal gang&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2946,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,528,6,50,2334,221,1448,530,319,2568,86,4,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-brexit","category-business","category-china","category-court-of-justice-of-the-european-union","category-europe","category-european-commission","category-european-union","category-foreign-policy","category-hmrc","category-law","category-politics","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42254,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42253\/revisions\/42254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}