Laws of the People's Republic of China

The General Administration of Customs

Circular of the General Administration of Customs on Adding the Methods of Customs Supervision

ShuTong [2000] No.270

June 6, 2000

Guangdong Customs Bureau and all Customs directly under the General Administration of Customs:

In Accordance with the relevant provisions of the Circular of the General Office of the State Council on Transmitting the Comments by the State Economic and Trade Commission and Other Relevant Government Agencies on Further Improving the Deposit Account System for Processing Trade (GuoBanFa [1999] No.35) and in the Measures of Customs Supervision in Bonded Areas, the General Customs Administration decides to specify a customs supervision code for finished products of processing trade produced in bonded areas and sold to non-bonded areas with approval. Notified as follows are some relevant issues:

I.

The customs supervisory method codes added are as follows:

1.

Customs supervisory method code No. 0444: this supervisory method is applicable to finished products produced within bonded areas with imported materials, sold domestically and tariffed as finished products, or "finished products produced with imported materials in bonded areas."

2.

Customs supervisory method code No. 0445: this supervisory method is applicable to finished products produced within bonded areas with customers' materials, sold domestically and tariffed as finished products, or "finished products produced with customers' materials in bonded areas."

3.

Customs supervisory method code No. 0544: this supervisory method is applicable to finished products produced within bonded areas with imported materials, sold domestically and tariffed as materials and parts, or "materials and parts produced with imported materials in bonded areas."

4.

Customs supervisory method code No. 0545: this supervisory method is applicable to finished products produced within bonded areas with customers' materials, sold domestically and tariffed as materials and parts, or "materials and parts produced with customers' materials in bonded areas."

II.

Various customs bureaus shall not levy the interest for deferred tariff payment on products listed hereinabove.

III.

For the entry of the aforementioned products (including products with tariff exemption or reduction), enterprises shall fill in the corresponding import declarations and export declarations The number of the Registration Manual shall be entered into the export declaration under the item of "Record Number."

IV.

The General Administration of Customs has adjusted the related data in the parameter database of its customs service system. All customs bureaus please receive the data files according to the following instruction:

Name node: ZS31

User name: BULLETIN

Directory name:[.883APP]

File name: TRADE-MO.TXT "Trade Method Certificate"

TRADE.TXT "Codes of Trade Methods"

V.

The circular will come into effect as of July 1, 2000. Please make timely announcement to the public.

Attachment:Draft Announcement

In accordance with the circular of the General Administration of Customs, for the settlement of issues concerning the entry for finished products of processing trade produced in bonded areas and to be sold domestically, the following supervisory method codes are added: Supervisory method code No. 0444 code, applicable to finished products produced within bonded areas with imported materials, sold domestically and tariffed as finished products, or "finished products produced with imported materials in bonded areas"; supervisory method code No. 0445, which is applicable to finished products produced within bonded areas with customers' materials, sold domestically and tariffed as finished products, or "finished products produced with customers' materials in bonded areas"; supervisory method code No. 0544, which is applicable to finished products produced within bonded areas with imported materials, sold domestically and tariffed as materials and parts, or "materials and parts produced with imported materials in bonded areas"; supervisory method code No. 0545, which is applicable to finished products produced within bonded areas with customers' materials, sold domestically and tariffed as materials and parts, or "materials and parts produced with customers' materials in bonded areas."

Enterprises making customs declaration please fill in the relevant declaration forms for their imports and exports according to the Requirements of the Customs of the People's Republic of China for Filling Import and Export Customs Declarations and the requirements made in this Announcement.

This Announcement shall enter into force as of July 1, 2000, and this is hereby notified.