Fashion Trend Inc Fines – Can Home Service Dealers Be convicted For Exports?

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Fashion Trend Inc is a leading Bengal-based multi-brand fashion store selling trend- related clothing, accessories, footwear and electronic goods at affordable prices. This company is one of the leading importers of fashionable wear for men, women and kids. From trendy designer wear to unisex clothing with sportswear styling, Fashion Trend and has everything that would make you look good, casual or smart. They also offer customized apparel and wholesale fashion wear for individuals and organizations who want to follow the latest fashion trends and offer them at cost effective rates.

On 8th August, this Company received a complaint regarding the supply of counterfeit clothing by one of their wholesale suppliers. The supplier was supplying clothes to a large local fashion show held in Bengal. The clothes were imported from China and presented as being manufactured in India when in reality they were produced in China. The Government ordered the supplier to stop selling clothes containing potentially harmful work in the country and put a ban on all imports from that supplier and others like them. According to the Government order, each home service dealer that operates a pop shop must either obtain an import permit or obtain an export license from the Home Office authorities in the UK to purchase and sell clothes.

Apparently the home service dealers did neither, so on the 8th of August, they were fined an amount equal to the price of one hundred fifty pounds sterling. The fashion retailers involved in this transaction were instructed to produce documentation proving that the clothing they supplied did not come from China and that they had not been supplied by a Chinese wholesaler that was listed in the Companies House document database. According to the Companies House document database Fashion Trend Inc was a direct supplier of the Chinese wholesale clothing company but because it did not have an import license it was not entitled to sell fashion goods in the UK, they were instead obliged to provide proof that they did not import goods into the country.

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