According to the Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department, at Tan Son Nhat International Airport, the Customs agency manages and coordinated with competent authorities inside and outside the sector to arrest the illegal transportation of goods such as used electronic devices (on the List of goods banned from import), mainly imported from Singapore and Korea to Vietnam.
In May 2024, Tan Son Nhat International Airport Customs Sub-department discovered a violation by the ground staff of a ground service company passing through the internal gate control area that transported 1 paper bag containing 25 used iPhones, Samsung cell phones, and 100 bills shaped like 100 USD. Through quick exploitation, the violator admitted his all violations and Customs agency handed over the violator and all evidence of the violation to the Police agency.
Also, related to the transportation of prohibited goods, recently, the Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department fined a logistics company (Phu Nhuan district) an amount of nearly 500 million VND for violations. The record of administrative violations against this company was the act of "declaring falsely compared to reality about the name of the goods and the number of goods in transit". Infringing items include 78 used mobile phones.
With the implementation of drastic solutions in the fight against smuggling and trade fraud, the specialized anti-smuggling force as well as customs branches have effectively inspected, controlled, and prevented violations. In the first 5 months of 2024, the Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department presided over, coordinated, detected, and arrested nearly 700 violations with an estimated value of infringing goods of 1,576 billion VND.