CN| Category | Announcement No. | Comments |
| Animal and Plant Products Access | Announcement No.177 of 2019 of the General Administration of Customs and the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Areas | Announcement on Lifting Restrictions on Poultry Imports in the United States, U.S. poultry imports meeting Chinese laws and regulations will be allowed from November 14, 2019. |
| Announcement No.176 of 2019 of the General Administration of Customs | Announcement on Inspection and Quarantine Requirements for Imported Spanish Olive Meal: Olive meal produced from olive fruit planted in Spain on November 10, 2019 after oil separation by squeezing, leaching and other processes is allowed to be exported to China. Relevant products must meet the inspection and quarantine requirements for imported Spanish olive meal when being exported to China. | |
| Announcement No.175 of 2019 of the General Administration of Customs | Announcement of the General Administration of Customs on Quarantine Requirements for Imported Sweet potato Plants from Laos. Sweet potatoes (scientific name: Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam., English name: Sweet Potato) which are produced throughout Laos on November 10, 2019 and are only used for processing and not for cultivation are allowed to be imported into China. Relevant products must meet the quarantine requirements for imported sweet potato plants from Laos when they are exported to China. | |
| Announcement No.174 of 2019 of the General Administration of Customs | Announcement on Quarantine Requirements for Imported Fresh Melon Plants from Uzbekistan) Fresh Melons (Cucumis Melo L.f English name Melon) produced in 4 melon producing areas in Uzbekistan’s Hualaizimo, Syr River, Jizac and Kashkadarya regions are allowed to be imported into China since November 10, 2019. Relevant products must meet the quarantine requirements for imported fresh-eating melon plants from Uzbekistan when they are exported to China. | |
| Announcement No.173 of 2019 of the General Administration of Customs | Announcement on Inspection and Quarantine Requirements for Imported Brazilian Cottonseed meal, Cottonseed Meal produced from cottonseed planted in Brazil on November 10, 2019 after separation of oil by squeezing, leaching and other processes is allowed to be exported to China. Relevant products must meet the inspection and quarantine requirements for imported Brazilian cottonseed meal when being transported to China. | |
| Announcement No.169 of 2019 of the General Administration of Customs | Announcement on lifting bird flu risk warning in Spain and Slovakia, Spain and Slovakia are bird flu-free countries from October 31, 2019. Allow poultry and related products that meet the requirements of Chinese laws and regulations to be imported. | |
| Announcement No.156 of 2019 of the General Administration of Customs | Announcement on Inspection and Quarantine Requirements for imported Vietnamese dairyproducts, Vietnam’s dairy products will be allowed to be exported to China from October 16, 2019. Specifically, it includes pasteurized milk, sterilized milk, modified milk, fermented milk, cheese and processed cheese, thin butter, cream, anhydrous butter, condensed milk, milk powder, whey powder, whey protein powder, bovine colostrum powder, casein, milk mineral salt, milk-based infant formula food and premix (or base powder) thereof. Vietnamese dairy enterprises exporting to China should be approved by Vietnamese authorities and registered with the General Administration of Customs of China. Products exported to China should meet the inspection and quarantine requirements for Vietnamese dairy products exported to China. | |
| Customs Clearance | Announcement No.165 of 2019 of the General Administration of Customs | Announcement on the designated regulatory site for imported timber, the designated regulatory site for imported timber in Wuwei, which was announced this time, belongs to Lanzhou Customs. The regulatory site is mainly used for heat treatment of peeled boards of 8 tree species from Russia’s production areas, such as birch, larch, Mongolian pine, Chinese pine, fir, spruce, mountain planting and clematis. The above treatment is limited to sealed container transportation. |
| Hygiene and Quarantine | Announcement No.164 of 2019 of the General Administration of Customs | Announcement on preventing yellow fever epidemic from entering China: From October 22, 2019, vehicles, containers, goods, luggage, mail and express mail from Nigeria must be subject to health quarantine. Aircraft and ships should be effectively treated with mosquito control, and their responsible persons, carriers, agents or consignors should actively cooperate with health quarantine work. Anti-mosquito treatment shall be carried out for aircraft and ships from Nigeria without valid anti-mosquito certificates and containers and goods found with mosquitoes. For ships infected with yellow fever, the distance between the ship and land and other ships shall not be less than 400 metersbefore mosquito control is completed. |
| Announcement No.163 of 2019 of the General Administration of Customs | Announcement on preventing the epidemic situation of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome from being introduced into our country, from October 22, 2019, vehicles, containers, goods, luggage, mail and express mail from Saudi Arabia must be subject to health quarantine. The responsible person, carrier, agent or cargo owner shall voluntarily declare to the customs and accept quarantine inspection. Those who have evidence that they may be contaminated by Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus shall be subject to health treatment according to regulations. It is valid for 12 months. | |
| Execute Standard | Announcement No.168 of 2019 of the General Administration of Customs | Announcement on further standardizing the inspection of environmental protection items ofimported motor vehicles, the emission threshold will be increased from November 1, 2019. Local customs offices will implement the external appearance inspection and on-boarddiagnosis system inspection of environmental protection items of imported motor vehicles according to the requirements of “Emission Limits and Measurement Methods for Gasoline Vehicles (Dual Idle Speed Method and Simple Working Condition Method)” (GB18285-2018) and “Emission Limits and Measurement Methods for Diesel Vehicles (Free Acceleration Method and Load Deceleration Method)” (GB3847-2018), and will implement the exhaust
pollutant inspection at a ratio of not less than 1% of the imported number of vehicles. Relevant models of imported enterprises shall meet the requirements of environmental protection information disclosure for motor vehicles and non-road mobile machinery. |
| General Administration of Market Supervision No.46 of 2019 | Announcement on two supplementary food inspection methods such as “Determination of Chrysophanol and Orange Cassidin in Food”, the two supplementary food inspection methods of “Determination of Chrysophanol and Orange Cassidin in Food” and “Determination of sennoside A, sennoside B and physcion in Food” are released to the public this time. | |
| General Administration of Market Supervision No.45 of 2019 | Announcement on Issuing 4 Supplementary Food Inspection Methods such as Determination of Citrus Red 2 in Food) This time, 4 Supplementary Food Inspection Methods such as Determination of Citrus Red 2 in Food, Determination of 5 Phenolic Substances such as Octylphenol in Food, Determination of Chlorothiazoline in Tea, Determination of Casein Content in Milk Beverages and Milk Raw Materials are released to the public. | |
| New Policy Laws and Regulations | No.172 of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China Revised “Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on the Implementation of Food Safety Law” | The regulations will come into force on December 1? 2019. This revision has strengthened the following aspects:1. It has strengthened food safety supervision and requires the people’s governments at or above the county level to establish a unified and authoritative supervision system and strengthen the construction of supervision capacity. It has additionally stipulated supervision means such as random supervision and inspection, remote supervisionand inspection, improved the reporting and reward system, and established a blacklist system for serious illegal producers and operators and a joint disciplinary mechanism for dishonesty.
2. Basic systems such as food safety risk monitoring and food safety standards have been improved, the application of food safety risk monitoring results has been strengthened, the formulation of local food safety standards has been standardized, the filing scope of enterprise standards has been clarified, and the scientific nature of food safety work has been effectively improved. 3. We have further implemented the main responsibility for food safety of producers and operators, refined the responsibilities of the main leaders of enterprises, standardized，the storage and transportation of food, prohibited false propaganda of food, and improved the management system of special food. 4. The legal liability for food safety violations has been improved by imposing fines on the legal representative, principal responsible person, directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel of the unit where the violations are intentionally committed, and imposing strict legal liability for the newly added obligatory provisions. |
| Announcement No.226 of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China | Since December 4, 2019, when enterprises handle new feed additive certificates and expand the application scope of new feed additives, they must provide relevant application documents in accordance with the revised requirements for new feed additive application materials, format for new feed additive application materials and application form for new feed additives. | |
| General Administration of Market Supervision No.50 of 2019 | Announcement on the “Regulations on the Use of Supplementary Materials for Health Food Filing Products and Their Use (2019 Edition)”, starting from December 1, 2019, supplementary materials for health food must meet the relevant requirements of 2019 Edition. |
Post time: Dec-30-2019