Laws of the People's Republic of China

Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Agriculture, General Administration of Customs, General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine

Announcement No.78, 2005 of the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Agriculture, the General Administration of Customs, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China

[2005] No. 78

In accordance with related regulations of Foreign Trade Law of PRC and Administrative Regulations on Commodity Import and Export of PRC, related matters are now announced as follows for the purposes of preventing spread of bird flu epidemic and protecting health of people and production security of stock raising industry.

1.

Suspending import of poultry and poultry products form counties of epidemic-stricken counties such as Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Japan, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Romania, Croatia, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Mongolia, Turkey, Russia and Sweden. As from today, departments of quality inspection will not issue Declared Form of Import Commodity to poultry and poultry products form above-mentioned epidemic-stricken counties until release of another announcement for resume of the import. Customs will not accept import declarations of poultry and poultry products with no Declared Form of Import Commodity.

2.

All local administrative commercial sections will suspend release of Automatic Import License of meet chook and its products (all meat chook products listed in appendix of List of Commodities under Administration of Automatic Import License) from above-mentioned countries.

The announcement takes effect as form release. The poultry and poultry products import from new bird flu epidemic countries should be implemented in line with the announcement also.

Ministry of Commerce

Ministry of Agriculture

General Administration of Customs

General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine

Oct 28, 2005