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Guangdong cracks down on used clothes trafficking

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-10-17 16:00

More than 120 tons of worn clothes smuggled into China were burnt down Friday in Guangdong province, a move to crack down on illegal trafficking of used clothes.

The clothes were confiscated in Jieshi township of Lufeng city when a dozen of police raided some illegal tailor shops recently, the press office of Lufeng government said Friday .

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Police investigations showed that used clothes, smuggled from overseas including Japan and the Republic of Korea, had been sold to many inland Chinese regions, including the northeastern region and Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region after simple processing.

Maritime trafficking of used clothes had been rampant in small coastal town. Local authorities have vowed to intensity the crackdown on land trafficking in an effort to eliminate the business.