The customs has strictly regulations on the goods import and export from the country. Here we take EMS custom clearance for goods shipping from China to explain the package custom clearance requirements and process.
Customs regulations for personal postal articles
Personal postal articles refers to Personal usage within a reasonable number of inbound and outbound travelers to separate the transport of baggage items, gifts articles and other personal items according to the provisions of the customs. The inbound and outbound Personal Postal Articles shall be limited to their own use and reasonable amount.
The customs management principles of inbound and outbound personal postal articles are: convenient reasonable needs of the individual and limit the illegal smuggling activities. On the basis of this principle, the customs shall set the limits, allowances, prohibitions and restrictions on the personal item categories. The customs inspects on inbound and outbound post goods to tax or tax exemption.
1. For personal goods shipping from China to Hongkong, Taiwan and Macau, the restriction amount is 800 RMB and tax free amount is 400 RMB, the exceeded part need to pay tariffs according to the regulations.
2. For personal goods shipping from China to overseas countries, the restriction amount is 1000 RMB and tax free amount is 500 RMB, the exceeded part need to pay tariffs according to the regulations.
3. Post articles require for inspection, identification, quarantine or commodity inspection shall be handled by the customs in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state.
Prohibited articles
1. Print, film, photographs, music, movies, audio and video tapes and laser discs, computer storage media and other items related to state secrets;
2. Precious cultural relics and other prohibited cultural relics;
3. Endangered and rare animals, plants (including specimens) and their seeds and reproductive materials.
Customs supervision on printing and audio video products
Printings audio and video products should be limited to a reasonable amount of personal use, exceeded amount will be returned. The printed materials, audio and video products mainly refer to:
Printings: books, newspapers, magazines, print and mail (except the personal mail), copy, manuscripts, paintings, manuscripts etc.
Audio video products: Audio and video tapes, records, CDs, VCDs, film, photographic negatives, slides, and computer disks, CDs, tapes and other information storage medium.
Prohibited inbound of printings, audio and video products:
1. Printings Attack relevant provisions of the constitution of People’s Republic of China; slander national policies; slander Chinese Communist Party and state leaders of People’s Republic of China; inciting subversive, instigates division; advocating the “two China” or “Taiwan independence”;
2. Specific descriptive on sex or pornographic;
3. Promote feudal superstition or murder or violence;
4. Others harm to political, economic, cultural and moral of the People’s Republic of China.
Prohibited outbound of printings, audio and video products:
1. Content prohibited inbound;
2. Involving state secrets;
3. Internal information and domestic issue printings’
4. Books for college campus department usage; national geological and survey data;
5. The illegal publication of books, magazines, newspapers and other printed and audio-visual products, illegal publishing; infringement of intellectual property rights, pirated foreign publishing agencies printed and audio-visual products;
6. Prohibited outbound old books on cultural relics identification reference standards provisions promulgated by the state, and the others has cultural relics value.
Customs supervision on goods shipping from China
The goods express delivery refers to goods other than documents and personal items. It can be divided into 3 kinds. The first kind divides into inbound and outbound courier packages. The second one only limit to inbound packages, the last one refers goods other than the first and second kinds.
Custom clearance requirements for goods shipping from China
Issues in the customs declaration
1. Intentionally concealed good real information to declare other names;
2. Didn’t declare according to the requirements or didn’t declare, including the name, quantity, value, origin etc.
3. Declare value of the object is clearly inconsistent with the goods value or lower down declare value such as 0 value, no commercial value and so on;
4. The customs declaration form, invoice or the details form CN22 name column declared as gift, personal items or commodity and sample;
5. Chinese declaration.
Custom clearance requirements
1. EMS postal goods should fill goods name, number and other details in English in CN22 column and CN23 column, such as a pair of leather shoes, two pieces of cotton shirts, 5 cashmere sweaters etc.
2. Fill in correct and reasonable declared value, and clearly fill in the customs declaration form and waybill, proforma invoice, the declared value shall be the same;
3. None personal postal items, samples and advertising materials, gifts need to submit invoice, invoice content should include consignee, sender name, company name, address, goods name, quantity, value, origin, and provide telephone numbers for both receiver and sender.
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