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Investigations uncovered an alleged scheme that operated between August 2022 and June 2025, involving goods with a total value of over S$23 million (US$18 million).<\/span><\/p>\n At the time, Chinese-made mattresses exported to the US were subject to anti-dumping duties, which were imposed in 2019 after the US Commerce Department determined such mattresses were being sold in the US at less than fair value.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cSingapore Customs takes a serious view of the falsification of trade declarations or the misuse of Certificates of Origin,\u201d the agency said.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cSuch conduct undermines the integrity of international trade documentation and can damage Singapore’s standing as a trusted and reliable global trading hub.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The men and companies have been charged with one or more offences relating to false declarations, false statements and incorrect trade descriptions.<\/span><\/p>\n If convicted of making false declarations or statements required under the Regulation of Imports and Exports Act 1995, the men face a fine of up to S$10,000, up to two years\u2019 jail or both.<\/span><\/p>\n If found guilty of making a false statement when applying for Certificates of Origin, the men may be fined up to S$100,000 or three times the value of the goods relating to the crime, whichever is greater, or up to two years\u2019 jail or both.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Investigations uncovered an alleged scheme that operated between August 2022 and June 2025, involving goods with a total value of over S$23 million (US$18 million)….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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