Monday, 11 November 2013

水貨客 (parallel-goods traders)

一波未平,一波又起︰繼早前水貨客充斥香港的爭執後,港人又因奶粉短缺的問題而怨聲載道。有見及此,政府再出招,立例規管攜帶奶粉出關的數量。



The mainland has a law to regulate Hong Kong people engaged in the (1) parallel-goods trading business.

(1) Parallel goods (又稱parallel imports grey goodsgrey-market goods): 水貨 ( goods that are imported into a country without the permission of the company that produced them, and sold at a lower price than the company sells them at) {Oxford Adv. Ame.}

既然水貨行業是parallel-goods trading business,水貨客即是parallel-goods traders
行貨是licensed/ authorized goods (網上看見有人說是dealer goods,但google找不到有關的用字,似乎前兩者用得較頻繁)
正貨是genuine goods,而假貨是counterfeit goods
另外很多人貪平吃的私煙是bootleg cigarettes私酒是bootleg liquor

Ten people were arrested on the border for (2) breaching a new restriction on (3) milk formula export that (4) came into effect on Friday.

(2) To breach: 違反 (to not keep to an agreement or not keep a promise) {Oxford Adv Ame.}
Police arrested the demonstrators for committing a breach of the peace. 
警員以破壞和平罪逮捕了示威者。 {iciba}
a breach of contract/copyright/warranty {Yahoo! Dict.}
They are in breach of Article 119. {Yahoo! Dict.}

(3) Milk formula ( formula/ formula milk ): 嬰兒奶粉(a baby’s liquid food based on cow’s milk or soya protein, given as a substitute for breast milk) {Oxford Online}
Two tins of milk formula兩罐奶粉

(4) To come into force (= to come into effect/ to enter into force) (to start being used, usually a law or rule) {Oxford Adv. Ame.}
The new regulations will come into force next month.

They blamed cross-border traders who regularly (5) buy up large amounts of the formula in Hong Kong and transport it to the mainland for a profitable resale.

(5) To buy up: 大手買入全數買入(to buy all or as much as possible of something) {Oxford Adv. Ame.}
The mention of price rises sent citizens out to their shops to buy up as much as they could. {Iciba}
物價上漲的說法使老百姓都湧進商店大量搶購商品。

An additional 200 (6) customs officers (海關人員,注意customsS) and 14 X-ray scanners (7) were deployed at border crossing points....

(7) To deploy: 動用 (to bring into effective action) {Oxford{
Small states can often deploy resources more freely. {Oxford}

原文:
Lai Ying-Kit, Ten arrested for breaching new milk formula export restrictions, SCMP (Friday, 01 March, 2013)

參考︰
http://www.thewholesaleforums.co.uk/threads/importing-grey-goods-definition.116532/

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