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China Implements Integrated Customs-and-Quarantine Declaration

​GACC has streamlined China’s export and import procedures by absorbing tasks previously designated to AQSIQ and subordinate provincial CIQ departments. Centralization of these duties into the hands of GACC will greatly simplify overall importation/exportation procedures.

On Jul. 31, 2018, China General Administration of Customs (GACC) issued Guidance on Declaration of Export/Import Commodities (first draft). The following table shows the differences between current customs declaration and previous one:


Important Changed Items

Before Adjustments

After August 1

A single integrated System

Declaration System

Declare goods in two systems

Only need to use the new integrated system

A new integrated Form

Declaring Items

Altogether 229

Reduce to 105

Overseas Consignee and Consignor

No requirements

Encourage to fill it out

Domestic Consignee and  Consignor

There is no mandatory requirement to have both consignee and consignor qualification of import and export goods and self-declaration qualification of Inspection and quarantine.

There is a mandatory requirement to have both consignee and consignor qualification of import and export goods and self-declaration qualification of Inspection and quarantine.

Declaring Enterprises

There is no mandatory requirement to have both qualifications for custom declaration and inspection and quarantine declaration.

There is a mandatory requirement to have both qualifications for custom declaration and inspection and quarantine declaration.

Enterprise Code

Fill in filing number of custom and inspection and quarantine respectively.

Fill in "Unified Social Credit Code" first

HS Code

10 HS code

10 HS code + 3 inspection and quarantine code

Container Goods Number

No need to fill when declares goods to customs.

Need to fill it out

Associated Number

Use “Associated Number”

Cancel “Associated Number” and use “Electronic Port Data Center Serial Number” as the only number

A Set of Unified Parameter Codes

Parameter Code

8 Unified codes:

code of country, port, currency, transportation, supervision method, unit of measurement, packaging types and container specification.

A Set of Attached Documents

Uploading Ways

Upload respectively

Upload uniformly

Uploading Formats

  • For custom declaration:  support PDF files

  • For inspection and quarantine declaration:  support multiple file types

Only support PDF files

Optimized Format and New Print Method

Print Project

48

56

Print Method

Chromatography printing

  • Print on A4 paper;

  • Cancel chromatography printing;

  • Make sure no table-head information from the second page.

Print Format

Vertical

Horizontal

Print Content

Print the Barcode at the top right

Print the QR Code and Barcode at the top right

Enterprises should declare their export/import commodities with Customs through “Internet Plus Customs” and fill information according to Guidance on Declaration of Export/Import Commodities

(If you are in need of translation of the Guidance, email to Chemlinked.)

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