CNContent:
1.Interpretation of the New Customs Policy
2.Summary of CIQ Policies from March to April
3.Review of Training Salon: Introduction and Analysis of Classification of Electromechanical Commodities
4.Xinhai Group Leaders Participate in Europe China Yangtze River Delta Economic and Trade Forum
Interpretation of the New Customs Policy
1.Announcement of Shanghai Customs on Optimizing Inspection Process of Imported Auto Parts
2.Announcement on Expanding Online Verification of Three Regulatory Documents, including “Import Drug Customs Clearance Form”
3.Paperless Declaration and Printing of Certificate of Origin
Announcement of Shanghai Customs on Optimizing Inspection Process of Imported Auto Parts
Announcement:
Shanghai Customs has optimized the inspection process of imported auto parts products that are included in legal inspection and entry verification. For the imported auto parts products with CCC certification, the CCC certificate issued by the certification authority or the CCC exemption certificate issued by relevant departments can be provided in the statutory inspection and entry verification work. Generally, sampling inspection is no longer carried out, and those qualified through conformity assessment will be allowed to be sold and used. For the early warning measures involving major quality and safety risks that need to carry out sampling test, the subordinate customs shall implement them in accordance with relevant provisions.
Announcement Analysis：
The newly released announcement stipulates that for imported auto parts products involving CCC certification, the CCC certificate issued by the certification authority or the CCC exemption certificate issued by the relevant departments can be provided in the legal inspection and entry verification work, If the document is approved, no sampling test is required.
For imported auto parts products that are subject to systematic control sampling inspection or involve major quality and safety risk early warning measures and require sampling inspection, the territorial customs may implement sampling inspection or port customs sampling inspection and territorial customs supervision according to the facilitation principle. Admittance Certification Authority Announces (3: China Quality Certification Center, Tianjin Huacheng Certification Co., Ltd., China Certification Center for Automotive Products Co., Ltd.)
The announcement will be implemented as of March 30, 2019. Including one of several measures to continuously optimize the business environment and facilitate cross-border trade between Beijing and Tianjin, which is one of the measures to optimize the inspection and supervision process of imported auto parts.
Announcement on Expanding Online Verification of Three Regulatory Documents, including “Import Drug Customs Clearance Form”
Regional pilot
Announcement No.148 of 2018 of the State Drug Administration of the General Administration of Customs (Announcement on the Implementation of Online Verification of Seven Regulatory Documents such as “Import Drug Customs Clearance Form”) Starting from October 29, 2018, a pilot project of online verification of electronic data of “Import Drug Customs Clearance Form” and protein assimilation preparations, peptide hormones “Drug Import Permit”, “Drug Export Permit” and electronic data of import and export goods declaration forms will be launched in Hangzhou and Qingdao Customs.
National scope
Announcement No.56 of 2019 of the State Drug Administration of the General Administration of Customs (Announcement on Expanding Online Verification of Three Regulatory Documents, including “Customs Clearance Form for Imported Drugs”)
Cautions
1.For commodities that require the “Import Drug Customs Clearance Form”, please use the “paperless customs clearance” declaration type from April 1.
2.Enterprises can log into the “single window” of Chinese international trade to inquire about the electronic data transmission status of certificates.
3.Fill in the “Imported Drugs/Medicinal Materials Application Form” must be accurate and complete, to avoid the “Imported Drugs Pass” issued invalid or unable to be used for customs clearance.
Paperless Declaration and Printing of Certificate of Origin
Announcement No.49 of 2019 of the General Administration of Customs (Announcement on Pilot Reform of Certificate of Origin Printing)
At present, self-service printing of certificates of origin is being piloted in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Chongqing and other provinces (cities). Enterprises can print the typographical certificate of origin approved by the customs on their own in the single Window interface shown above.
Operating steps
Self-printing: The enterprise logs into the self-service printing system using the electronic port corporate card.
Enterprise Electronic Signature and Declarer Management – Enterprise Electronic Signature and Declarer Authorization – Print
The certificate of origin self-service printing system can automatically obtain the agency information according to the certificate information of the certificate of origin. Entrusted enterprises can manually authorize those agents to print on their own
Enterprise filing
Filing website: https://ocr.customs.gov.cn:8080, entering the “origin comprehensive service platform”, enterprise filing, product pre- examination (filing) and information maintenance (filing) of applicants. After all the above information is submitted, the local customs shall be responsible for manual review
Enterprise application
At present, there are four ways to carry out certificate of origin online e-file: China International Trade Single Window, Xinchengtong Platform, Jiucheng Software and Rongji Software. Note for initial value: “application address” shall be filled with English city name and country name, eg “SHANGHAI, CHINA”; “Exporter” shall fill in the name and address of the enterprise in English. According to the actual situation of the new certificate application.
Certificate Inquiry and Printing
1.Accept the electronic receipt.
2.Successful data warehousing: sent, not yet received by visa end;
3.Successfully received data: the visa end has received the data and is awaiting approval;
4.Query Interface: Single Window- Query Statistics-License Query-Origin
Summary of CIQ Policies from March to April
| Category | Law and Regulations document number | Content |
| Animal and plant products access category | Announcement No.59 of 2019 of the General Administration of Customs (Announcement on Lifting the Risk Warning of peste des petits ruminants in Some Areas of Mongolia) | Since March 27, 2019, restrictions on cattle, sheep and their products related to peste des petits ruminants in some areas of Zamyn-Uud City, Dornogobi Province, Mongolia have been lifted. |
| Announcement No.55 of 2019 of the Agricultural and Rural Department of the General Administration of Customs (Announcement on Lifting the Ban on Avian Influenza in France) | The ban on bird flu in France will be lifted on March 27, 2019. | |
| Announcement No.52 of 2019 of the General Administration of Customs (Announcement on Quarantine Requirements for Imported Lithuanian Silage Forage Plants) | Haylage, which is allowed to be transported to China, refers to artificially cultivated forage planted, silaged, sorted and packaged in Lithuania. Including Lolium multiflorum, Lolium perenne, Festuca pratensis, Festuca rubra, Phleum pratense, Poa pratensis, Trifolium pratense, Trifolium repens, Festuloliumbraunii, Medicago sativa. | |
| Announcement No.51 of 2019 of the General Administration of Customs (Announcement on Quarantine Requirements for Imported Italian Alfalfa Plants) | Bundles and grains of Medicago sativaL. produced in Italy are allowed to be transported to China. | |
| Announcement No.47 of 2019 of the General Administration of Customs (Announcement on Quarantine Requirements for Imported Fresh Pineapple Plants from Panama) | Fresh Pineapple, scientific name Ananas comosus and English name Pineapple (hereinafter referred to as pineapple) produced in Panama that meets the inspection and quarantine requirements are allowedto be imported into China. | |
| Sanitary epidemic area | Announcement No.45 of 2019 of the General Administration of Customs (Announcement on Preventing the Spread of ebola haemorrhagic fever Epidemic in Democratic Republic of Congo into China) | From March 20, 2019 to June 19, 2019, the Democratic Republic of Congo is listed as a health epidemic area of ebola haemorrhagic fever disease. |
| Country of origin | Announcement No.48 of 2019 of the General Administration of Customs (Announcement on No Longer Issuing Generalized System of Preferences Certificate of Origin Letters to Goods Exported to Japan) | Japan Ministry of Finance has decided not to grant GSP tariff preference to Chinese goods exported to Japan from April 1, 2019. From April 1, 2019, the customs will no longer issue Generalized System of Preferences Certificate of Origin letters and relevant Japanese import and processing certificates to goods exported to Japan. If an enterprise needs to prove its origin, it may apply for issuing a non-preferential certificate of origin. |
| Administrative approval category | Shanghai Customs Announcement No.3 of 2019 (Announcement of Shanghai Customs on Adjusting Codes of Enterprises Producing Packaging of Dangerous Goods for Export) | Since April 9, 2019, Shanghai subordinate Customs will begin to replace the codes of export dangerous goods packaging manufacturers within their jurisdiction. The new manufacturer code will consist of capital English letter C (for “customs”) and six Arabic numerals, with the first two Arabic numerals being 22, representing that the region where the enterprise is located belongs to Shanghai customs, and the last four Arabic numerals 0001-9999 representing the manufacturer. For example, in C220003, “22″ stands for Shanghai customs, and “0003″ stands for enterprises in the customs area with serial number 0003 listed by Shanghai customs. The transition period will end on June 30, 2019, and from July 1, 2019, enterprises will apply for packaging performance inspection with new codes. |
| Administrative approval category | Announcement No.13 [2019] of the General Administration of Customs, General Administration of Market Supervision (Announcement on Arrangements for Exempting from Compulsory Product Certification) | It is clear that the CCC exemption office and the acceptance and approval of special-purpose import product testing and processing will be transferred from the customs to the market supervision and administration bureau. |
| No.919 [2019] of the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Market Supervision, Shanghai Customs Municipal Administration of Supervision and Certification (Circular on RelevantArrangements for Exempting the City from Compulsory Product Certification) | It is clear that the Shanghai Market Supervision and Administration Bureau is responsible for the organization, implementation, supervision and administration of China Compulsory Certification within its jurisdiction. Shanghai Customs is responsible for the verification of imported products involving mandatory product certification imported at Shanghai ports. | |
| National standard category | General Administration of Market Supervision No.15 of 2019 (Announcement on Issuing the “Determination of Eugenol Compounds in Aquatic Products and Water” and Other 2 Supplementary Food InspectionMethods) | The Food Safety Sampling Inspection and Monitoring Department, in accordance with the relevant requirements of the “Provisions on the Work of Supplementary Food Inspection Methods”, announced the newly formulated “Determination of Eugenol Compounds in Aquatic Products and Water” and “Determination of Quinolones Compoundsin Foods such as Bean Products, Hot Pot and Small Hot Pot” |
Review of Training Salon: Introduction and Analysis of Classification of Electromechanical Commodities
On April 27, 2019, Tianhai Customs Consult Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of Xinhai, held a 2019 training course on “classification of mechanical and electrical products”, and selected key cases of the customs to help enterprises have an in-depth understanding. Case teaching has strong practicality. At the same time, it is also a related training course for Personnel assessment practitioners in Pre-classification held in China Customs Brokers Association on May 25.
Xinhai Group Leaders Participate in Europe China Yangtze River Delta Economic and Trade Forum
Recently, Chinese leaders have paid state visits to European countries to deepen practical cooperation, synergize the development strategy of the “One Belt And One Road” initiative and push forward china- eu comprehensive strategic partnership. On April 9, 2019, the first stop of the “Europe- China Yangtze River Delta Economic and Trade Forum” was successfully held in Finland, Europe. Xiaona Tang, Vice President of Finland’s China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification, Hui Chen, Director of China Association Of The European Technical And Economic Cooperation’s Shanghai Office, Bin He, President of Shanghai Oujian Network Development Group Co., Ltd., Min Wang, Vice President, and other guests and representatives of Finnish enterprises attended the forum.
Main Topic of Forum
This forum has made wonderful discussions on topics such as “CIIE-the beginning from the world’s largest exporter to the importer”, “analysis of consumer goods trend with rapid growth in Chinese market demand”, “feasible measures to protect intellectual property rights in China” and “successful experience sharing of foreign enterprises in China”. It has carried out extensive and in- depth exchanges from different channels and different industries so as to enable European enterprises to understand the Chinese market, participate in the second China International Import Expo, increase opportunities for China-EU cooperation, jointly build “One Belt And One Road” and further promote 16+1 cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe
Post time: Dec-19-2019