Laws of the People's Republic of China

Ministry of Commerce

Announcement No. 125, 2005 of Ministry of Commerce

[2005] No.125

Promulgating 2006 Catalogue of Commodities Subject to Export License For the purposes of doing well the works of issuing export license, 2006 License-issuing Catalogue in Grades of Export License is hereby promulgated in accordance with Announcement No. 85 2005 of Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of the Customs, 2006 Catalogue of Goods Subject to Export License and relative issues are announced as follows:

1.

There are 46 goods subject to export license in 2006 (312 HS codes of 8 places). Among them, 6 are subject to the license issued by Quota License Affairs Bureau (License Bureau in short below), 32 are subject to the license issued by all local commissioner offices (commissioner office in short below), 8 are subject to the license issued by all local foreign economic and trade commission (department, bureau), commercial department (bureau) (local license-issuing organs in short below) (see Appendix for details).

2.

For the purposes of safeguarding regular business order, the license for some exported goods are issued by appointed license-issuing organs or managed by assigned export clearance ports. When exporting these goods, all enterprises for export should apply for export license to the assigned license-issuing organs, make export declaration at the assigned port, and the assigned license-issuing organs should issue export license according to the assigned port.

(1)

The Customs of Huangpu, Beihai and Tianjin are assigned to be export clearance ports for antimony (including antimony oxide ore, antimony oxide, antimony (including antimony alloy) and antimony products);

(2)

The export license for light-burned (dead burned) magnesia, is issued by Dalian Commissioner Office. Assign Dalian (Dayaowan, Bayuquan, Dandong and East Port), Qingdao (Qingdao Port), Tianjin (East Port and New Port), Changchun (Tumen) and Manzhouli to be export clearance ports, and relative commodity inspection certificate is handled by the Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau of assigned export clearance ports.

(3)

The customs of Tianjin, Shanghai and Dalian are assigned to be export clearance ports for licorice root;

(4)

Shanghai (the Customs of Wusong, Pudong Airport, Pu River, Baoshan, the bonded area of Outer Gaoqiao), Guangzhou (the Customs of BaiYun Airport, Xinfeng Office of Guangzhou Customs), Shenzhen (the Customs of Huanggang and Sungang), Chengdu, Chongqing, Qingdao, Tianjin (the Customs of Tianjin New Port and East Port), Dalian (Dalian Customs and Dayaowan Customs), Kunming, Wuzhou, Hangzhou are assigned to be export clearance ports for natural silk;

(5)

The export licenses for live ox, live pig, live chicken, beef, pork and chicken are issued by all commissioner offices, but the licenses for live ox, live pig and live chicken in Hong Kong and Macau exported by overland freight are issued by the commissioner offices in Guangzhou and Shenzhen;

(6)

Heilongjiang province appointed Dalian and Suifen River to be export clearance ports for sawn lumber exported in the form of re-export of imported log processed sawn lumber, appointed Heilongjiang Commercial Department to issue export license.. Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region assigned Manzhouli, Erlianhot, Dalian, Tianjin and Qingdao to be export clearance ports, and assigned Commercial Office of Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region to issue export license. Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region assigned Alashankou, Tianjin and Shanghai to be export clearance ports and assigned Foreign Economic and Trade Department of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to issue export license.

3.

Except for the rules for management of issuing export license, all license-issuing organs should issue export license for the goods subject to quota tender in accordance with the name list of the enterprises winning the tender and the quantity they won published by the Ministry of Commerce and the Certificate of Applying For Export License of Quota Tender Goods issued by the tender offices concerned.

4.

As for the re-export of imported log processed sawn lumber, the export license should be applied for by the experimental enterprises that have business qualifications to the license-issuing organs assigned in Article 2 (6) by Export Certificate for Imported Log-Processed Sawn Lumber in accordance with the provisions of Experimental Measures on Re-export of Imported Log Processed Sawn Lumber promulgated jointly by the Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of the Customs, "processed sawn lumber from imported log" must be noted in the remarks column of the license.

5.

The controlled chemicals and chemicals liable to producing drugs should be handled in accordance with Measures on Management of Import & Export License for Dual-purpose Biological Products and Technique, the license is issued by License Bureau for Central managed enterprises in Beijing to export controlled chemicals and chemicals liable to producing drugs and the goods listed in this Catalogue (Except for those that have special stipulations in this Catalogue). Central Managed enterprises outside Beijing export the goods subject to the license issued by License Bureau or its assigned license-issuing organs should follow its rules. The export licenses for other goods should be issued separately by localization commissioner office and local license-issuing organs in accordance with the license-issuing range stipulated in this Catalogue.

6.

The export license for processing trade and frontier petty trade should be issued in accordance with the provisions of Announcement No. 85, 2005 delivered jointly by Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of the Customs.

7.

For the purposes of ensuring the implementation of canceling import & export license after verification through internet, license-issuing organs must note "non one lot one license" in the "remarks" column of the license for the goods that are not subject to "one lot one license" while issuing export license.

8.

License-issuing organs must examine, approve and issue export license strictly in accordance with relative provisions of Measures on Management of Export License for Commodities, Measures on Management of Import & Export License for Dual-purpose Biological Products and Technique, 2006 Catalogue of Goods Subject to Export License and Specifications of Applying for and Issuing Export License.

9.

Temporary export licenses for the textiles listed in Temporary Managed Commodity Catalogue of Textiles Exported to European Union and Temporary Managed Commodity Catalogue of Textiles Exported to the United States are examined, approved and issued by local competent commercial administrations and license-issuing organs in accordance with related provisions of the Specifications of Applying for and Issuing Temporary Textile Export License.

This Circular shall go into effect on January 1, 2006. License-Issuing Catalogue in Grades for Commodities Subject to Export License in 2005 shall be nullified simultaneously.

Appendix: Catalogue of Goods Subject to Export License in 2006(omitted)

Ministry of Commerce

January 1, 2006