KCS Seizes 150,000 Imported Consumer Products Including Defective School Supplies

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] More than 150,000 imported daily products, including defective school supplies intended for domestic import, were seized by customs authorities.

On the 11th, the Korea Customs Service announced that from August 22 to the 16th of last month, it conducted safety inspections on 16 categories of imported daily products in cooperation with the National Institute of Technology and Standards, and discovered a large number of products that failed to meet safety standards, which were subsequently disposed of or returned.

The seized items included over 140,000 school supplies, the largest quantity, followed by about 2,000 portable lawn mower parts and approximately 600 sports safety helmets.

These items were mainly found to have falsely labeled safety information (over 80,000 items), failed to meet safety labeling standards (over 60,000 items), or lacked the legally required safety certification (about 2,500 items).

Since 2016, the Korea Customs Service and the National Institute of Technology and Standards have been jointly conducting safety inspections on electrical appliances, daily products, and children's products.

As a result, compared to 2016, the detection rate of products violating safety standards decreased by 7.4 percentage points last year. Based on this, the Korea Customs Service analyzes that the joint inspections are effective in blocking the domestic entry of hazardous products.

The two agencies stated, “We will continue to block the import of products that violate safety standards to protect the lives and health of the public and ensure that citizens can live in a safe society,” adding, “In the future, we will also strengthen safety inspections on seasonal items, domestic and international recalled products, and socially trending items.”

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