Incompliant importation data collected by AQSIQ in July of 2014 has revealed that there was a significant increase in food products destroyed or rejected by CIQ at port compared with the previous five months. So far, the amount of incompliant imported food products peaked in January and July of 2014. The rest of months stayed relatively static with an average of 222 foods failing compliance check at port, except November of 2013 (63 kinds) and June of 2013 (86 kinds).
Figure1. Incompliant food products by country in July of 2014
On a country by country analysis in figure 1 we can see that Taiwan had almost 17% of its Chinese food exports destroyed or rejected due to incompliance with Chinese regulations, following by Japan at 9% and Thailand at 8%.
Figure 2. Incompliant food products by category in July of 2014
From a food category perspective in figure 2 we can see that 29% of the total comes from products which belong to preparation of cereals, flour and cakes with HS code 19. Miscellaneous edible preparations (HS code 21…) and beverages, spirits and vinegar (HS code 22…) also had major compliance issues with 25% and 15% respectively of the total volume of incompliant foodstuffs.
Figure 3. Incompliant food products by incompliant reasons in July of 2014
Remarkably 424 kinds of food products failed inspection due to different reasons, which can be referred to figure 3. The majority of failures are attributed to contamination (37%), incompliant ingredients (18%) and improper labeling (17%). Therefore, conducting test at the lab certificated by local CIQ and having your label preview by experts before accessing the China market are highly recommended.
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