Announcement of the General Administration of Customs No.33

For the purpose of further optimizing the Customs' supervision and services and increasing the efficiency of Customs clearance, the General Administration of Customs decides to carry out trial reform of classified Customs clearance of export goods in some Customs. Relevant matters are hereby published as follows.

1. Scope of trial reform of classified Customs clearance of export goods:

Marine and airborne cargos exported from Customs zones of Beijing, Tianjin, Dalian, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Qingdao, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Gongbei, Huangpu and Jiangmen.

2. Classified Customs clearance of export goods means an operation by the Customs of classified Customs clearance on export goods pursuant to their risk levels, in which the Customs scientifically employs ideas and methods in risk management, bases their work on enterprises' credit situation and integrates various risk factors such as goods, etc..

3. Low-risk export goods of honest and law-abiding enterprises will be promptly released after the Customs' computer system finishes the electronic examination of their electronic digital declaration forms. As to paper declaration forms, enterprises may make their own option between two methods of "tendering documents after Customs clearance" and "tendering documents on site".

(1) "Tendering document after Customs clearance": Enterprises to which the Customs clearance of "tendering document after customs clearance" applies subject to the Customs' approval after examination makes declaration to the Customs by employing the method of "paperless declaration", and where goods satisfy the conditions for automatic release by the computer system, such exterprises shall submit paper Customs clearance documents to the Customs within the period of time as specified.

(2) "Tendering documents on site": Enterprises shall, in accordance with the requirements in the Provisions of the People's Republic of China on the Customs Administration of Declaration for the Import and Export of Goods (Decree No.103 of the General Administration of Customs) submit paper Customs clearance documents to the Customs before the goods are released.

4. The Customs method of "tendering document after Customs clearance" shall not apply to export goods requiring supervison certificates.

5. Import & export enterprises and customs brokers with A-class or above within the Customs under the trial reform shall apply to the Customs at the place of registration for the application of the Customs method of "tendering documents after Customs clearance".

6. Subject to the consent by the Customs at the place of registration, after enterprises with A-class or above enters into an agreement with the Customs and E-Port, the Customs clearance method of "tendering document after Customs clearance" may apply to them within all the Customs under trial reform.

7. Enterprises to which "tendering document after Customs clearance" applies shall within 10 days after the goods are released go through relevant formalities concerning document tendering and verification with the Customs .

This Announcement shall go into effect as of the date of promulgation.