Is it illegal to sell smuggled goods in China? Which law is violated?

Article 155 of the Criminal Law of '97 stipulates that the following acts shall be punished as crimes of smuggling, and shall be punished in accordance with the relevant provisions of this section

(1) Illegal acquisition of articles prohibited from importation by the State directly from the smuggler,

or illegal acquisition of other goods or articles smuggled and imported directly from the smuggler,

in a larger amount;

(b) Transporting, acquiring or trafficking in goods whose import or export is prohibited by the State in or out of the inland sea or territorial sea,

or transporting, acquiring or trafficking in goods and articles whose import or export is restricted by the State,

in a relatively large amount without legal proof;

(c) Evading Customs' supervision of the transportation of solid wastes from abroad into the country.

On December 28, 2002, the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress at its thirty-first meeting adopted amendments to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China (4)

of which Article 3 stipulates: Article 155 of the Criminal Law is amended to read: "The following acts shall be punished as crimes of smuggling and in accordance with the relevant provisions of this section: (1) Illegal acquisition of state-prohibited imported goods directly from the smuggler, or illegal acquisition of other goods or articles smuggled and imported directly from the smuggler, where the amount is large; (2) Transporting, acquiring, or trafficking in state-prohibited imported or exported goods in the inland sea, the territorial sea, the boundary river, or the boundary lake, or transporting, acquiring, or trafficking in state-restricted imported or exported goods or articles, where the amount is large and there is no lawful proof of it. "

Added: constitute the crime of smuggling or other administrative laws and regulations prohibit smuggling, require the perpetrator subjectively out of intention, that is, knowingly smuggled goods or goods, if subjectively do not know, or by others to take advantage of, coercion, deception and so on do not constitute the crime of smuggling or other smuggling offenses.