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Before 2019, according to GCAA (General Administration of Customs of the P.R. China) Announcement No. 212 in 2013 ("Administrative Measures of the Customs of the People’s Republic of China for Temporary Entry and Exit of Goods"), the goods temporarily imported with ATA Carnet are limited to those specified in the international conventions. Basically China only accepts ATA Carnet for Exhibitions and Fairs (EF) .
In year 2019, GACC introduced Announcement No.13 of 2019 (Announcement on Matters Related to Supervision of Temporary Inbound and Out bound Goods). From 9th. Jan. 2019 China began to accept ATA Carnets for Commercial
Samples (CS) and Professional Equipment (PE). Temporary entry containers and their accessories and equipment, spare parts for maintenance containers shall go through customs formalities in accordance with relevant.
Now, according to Announcement No. 193 of 2019 of the General Administration of Customs (Announcement on the Temporary Entry of ATA Carnets for Sports Goods), in order to support China hosting Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic s and Winter Paralympics and other sports activities, according to the provisions of international conventions on temporary import of goods, China will accept ATA Carnet for "sporting goods" from January 1, 2020. The ATA Carnet can be used to go through the customs formalities for temporary entry for the necessary sporting goods for sports competitions, performances and training.
The above mentioned documents referred to the Istanbul Convention. With the approval of the State Council, China has expanded acceptance of the Convention on provisional temporary imports (that is, the Istanbul Convention), which is attached to the annex B2 on professional equipment and the attachment to the Annex B.3.
Notice on Customs Declaration
- Provide ATA Carnet marked with the purpose of the above four types of goods (exhibnition, sporting goods, professional equipment and commercial samples) to declare to the customs.
– In addition to providing ATA Carnet, importing enterprises are required to provide other information to prove the use of imported goods, such as national batch documents, detailed description of goods by enterprises, and lists of goods.
– ATA Carnet handled overseas shall be filed electronically with the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade / China International Chamber of Commerce before being used in China.
Post time: Jan-08-2020