Announcement No. 98 in 2011 of Ministry of Commerce and General Administration of the Customs Publishing Catalogue of Commodities Subject to Export License Administration in 2012

Issued by: Ministry of Commerce, General Administration of Customs
Announcement No. 98, 2011
Date of Issuance: December 30, 2011
Effective Date: January 1, 2012

Catalogue of Commodities Subject to Export License Administration in 2012 is hereby promulgated in accordance with Foreign Trade Law of the People's Republic of China and Management Regulations for Commodity Import & Export of the People's Republic of China and relative issues are announced as follows:

I. The 49 categories of commodities listed in the Catalogue of 2012 are subject to export control by means of quotas, quota bidding, and licenses.

1. Commodities subject to export quotas: wheat, corn, rice, wheat flour, corn flour, rice flour, cotton, sawn timber, live cattle (to Hong Kong and Macao), live pigs (to Hong Kong and Macao), live chicken (to Hong Kong and Macao), coal, coke, crude oil, refined oil, rare earth, antimony and antimony products, tungsten and tungsten products, zinc ore, tin and tin products, silver, indium and indium products, molybdenum, and phosphate ore.

2. Commodities subject to quota bidding: mat rush and mat rush products, silicon carbide, talcum lump (powder), magnesia, alumina, licorice and licorice products.

3. Commodities subject to export licensing control: live cattle (to markets other than Hong Kong and Macao), live pigs (to markets other than Hong Kong and Macao), live chicken (to markets other than Hong Kong and Macau), fresh chilled beef, frozen beef, fresh chilled pork, frozen pork, fresh chilled chicken, frozen chicken, ozone depleting substances, paraffin, zinc and zinc-based alloys, certain metals and metal products, platinum (for processing trade), automobiles (including complete knock-down kits) and their chassis, motorcycles (including all terrain vehicles) and their engines and frames, natural sand (including standard sand), molybdenum products, citric acid, vitamin C, penicillin industrial salt and disodium sulphate.

II. Live cattle, live pigs and live chicken for export to Hong Kong and Macao are subject to country/region quota license control under a global licensing policy. Natural sand for export to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are subject to export licensing, and natural standard sand are subject to global export licensing control.

III. Corn, rice, coal, crude oil, refined oil, cotton, antimony and antimony products, tungsten and tungsten products and silver are subject to state-operated trade management.

IV. For commodities subject to export quota bidding, regardless of the trade modes, the license issuing organ should issue export licenses according to the list of bid winners and amount of quotas awarded published by the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) as well as the Certificate of Applying for Export License for Commodities Subject to Quota Bidding issued by the Bidding Office.

V. Following commodities exported in the form of processing trade should be handled in accordance with following rules:

1. Exporting commodities subject to export quota license in the form of processing trade (except for those stipulated in Section 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this Article), license-issuing organs should approve and issue export license by export quota, Approval Certificate for Processing Trade Business and the export contract (copy of the original).

2. For importing raw materials used for producing platinum to process re-exported platinum (platinum or white gold), license-issuing organs should approve and issue export license by the Approval Certificate for Processing Trade Business issued by the commercial authorities in the area where the operator is registered, the import declaration form of the customs for processing trade and the export contract (copy of the original).

3. For importing crude oil to process re-exported paraffin wax, importing silver-bearing commodities (except aluminum powder, unwrought silver and silver semi-products) to process re-exported silver, and exporting zinc and zinc-base alloy in the form of processing trade, license-issuing organs should approve and issue the license by the Approval Certificate for Processing Trade Business issued by the provincial commercial authorities in the area where the operator is registered, the import declaration form of the customs for processing trade, and the export contract (copy of the original). Among them, the Approval Certificate for Processing Trade Business for silver is approved and issued by the approval document of the Ministry of Commerce, which should also be examined by the license-issuing organs.

4. For importing licorice root and its products in the form of processing trade, the license-issuing organs should approve and issue export license by the Approval Certificate for Processing Trade Business issued by the provincial commercial authorities in the area where the operator is registered, the Certificate of Applying for Export License for Commodities of Processing Trade of China Chamber of Commerce of Medicines & Health Products Importers and Exporters, the import declaration form of the customs for processing trade and the export contract (copy of the original).