Think Hong Kong is joking about the baby food? Better think again.
Customs officials in Hong Kong arrested 45 people on Friday and Saturday on charges of trying to smuggle baby milk powder across the border into China, multiple media outlets reported. The arrests came after an emergency two-can limit on exports of milk formula, launched in February, was made permanent Hong Kong law on Friday.
The South China Morning Post quoted Hong Kong’s secretary for security, Lai Tung-Kwok, as saying that customs agents had arrested 26 Hong Kong residents, 18 mainlanders and one foreign passport holder at border crossings. Lai added that authorities had seized a total of 115 cans of milk powder, with a street value in China of about $4,500.
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John Hannon, Los Angeles Times via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/9qE9raDrY9A/
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