Britain risks a €2bn bill from Brussels for failure to crack down on customs fraud by Chinese clothing importers.
OLAF, the EU’s anti-fraud office, said on Wednesday that Chinese importers had escaped customs duty by declaring textiles and clothes to be worth a tiny fraction of their true value. The authority said much of the activity was organised by international criminal gangs and accused the UK of failing to act on repeated warnings.
Results of the three-year investigation have been handed to the European Commission to decide whether to pursue the UK for lost customs duties, one of the main sources of revenue for the EU budget.
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