This service guide is formulated, in accordance with Law of the People¡¯s Republic of China on Import and Export Commodity Inspection, Law of the People¡¯s Republic of China on the Entry and Exit Animal and Plant Quarantine, Frontier Health and Quarantine Law of the People¡¯s Republic of China, Food Hygiene Law of the People¡¯s Republic of China, for the purpose of standardizing inspection and quarantine on import exhibitions and making entering and exiting the country convenient for exhibitors from all around the world. This guide only applies to exhibitions imported through ports of entry in Guangzhou.
Part¢ñWorking Procedure of Inspection and Quarantine of Import Exhibitions
Part¢òSupervision and Administration of the Import Exhibitions
1. ¡°Exhibitions¡± means goods used only for the Fair. Agents for exhibitors shall apply for inspection and quarantine to inspection and quarantine bureaus when the exhibitions enter the country, submit exhibition attending documents, lists of exhibitions, bill of lading, waybills£¬etc., and indicate ways of disposal after the exhibition.
2. Exhibitions shall be transferred to surveillance storehouses or interim storehouses at the exhibition hall for examination and inspection.
3. Quality inspection shall be exempted for exhibitions not for sale, heavy metal mine products and rock products excluded.
4. If the exhibitions are animals and animal products, plants and plant products, official quarantine certificates issued by the export countries shall be submitted when applying for inspection and quarantine. For those import permits of quarantine required, Import Permits of Quarantine for Animals and Plants of the People¡¯s Republic of China approved and issued by AQSIQ or GDCIQ or import permits issued by department of agriculture administration or department of forestry administration under the State Council shall be submitted.
5. If the exhibitions are food or cosmetics, statements shall be made to whether the exhibitions will be used for foretaste or tryout during the exhibition or will be eaten, used or sold after the exhibition when applying for inspection and quarantine. Official inspection (health) certificates or relevant health documents issued by the country (district) of origin shall be provided. After accepting the application, the inbound inspection and quarantine bureau shall examine and verify the relevant documents. Those only for exhibition (not to be eaten, used or sold) shall be exempt from sample tests and tag verification after the exhibitors provide relevant written warranty; those to be eaten or used during the exhibition shall be tested by samples based on results of examination and verification; those to be eaten, used or sold after the exhibition shall be inspected and supervised as ordinary import food and cosmetics.
6. If the exhibitions are special articles such as microbes, biological products, blood and blood products, Import Permits for Health Quarantine for Special Products issued by GDCIQ shall be submitted when applying for inspection and quarantine.
7. If the exhibitions are listed on the catalogue of objects subject to compulsory certificate, exhibition-attending documents issued by the organizer of the Fair and lists of exhibitions shall be submitted when applying for inspection and quarantine. The port inspection and quarantine bureau put them on record. When the exhibitions have to be returned after the Fair, the records shall be cancelled after verification by the inspection and quarantine bureaus based on customs declaration forms. Only in the following case can exhibitions be left over in China and be exempt from being returned: exhibitions meet the requirements stated in Bulletin 3 in 2005 of Certification and Accreditation Administration of the People¡¯s Republic of China (CNCA) and relevant certificates have been issued by GDCIQ.
8. If the exhibitions are packed in wooden packing materials, the wooden packing materials shall be disinfested at the county or region of export and stamped with special seal of IPPC in accordance with Standards NO. 15 for measures of plant quarantine of International Plant Protection Committee (IPPC). Only after that, can the exhibitions be imported.
9. If the exhibitions are imported within ATA Carnet, the ATA Carnet shall be produced as certifying documents when applying for inspection and quarantine. Quality inspection and compulsory accreditation can be exempt.
Part ¢óRelevant Regulations of China on Import Exhibitions
1. The following objects are prohibited from entering the country:
Pathogenic micro-organisms (including seed cultures of bacteria and viruses) of animals and plants, insect pests and other harmful organisms; animal carcasses; soil; relevant animals and plants, their products and other quarantine objects from countries or regions with prevalent epidemic animal or plant diseases. Lists of animals and animal products from countries or regions with prevalent animal epidemic prohibited from entering the country and Lists of plants prohibited from entering the country of the People¡¯s Republic of China in the column Animal and Plant Quarantine on website www.aqsiq.gov.cn publicized by AQSIQ shall be referred to for the lists of the above-mentioned objects.
2. The following objects must be submitted for import permits of quarantine:
(1) List of animals required for import permits of quarantine:
Live animals: animals (whether domesticated or wild, such as livestock, poultry, beasts, snakes, tortoises, fishes, shrimps and prawns, crabs, shellfishes, silkworms and bees), embryos, semen, oosperm, propagating eggs, and other animal hereditary materials;
Animal products used for food: meat and meat products (including the viscera), fresh eggs, fresh milk;
Animal products not used for food: bones, hoofs, horns and their products, glutin, cocoons, feedstuff from animals and foodstuff additive, fishmeal, meat meal, bone meal, meat and bone meal, grease, blood meal, blood, etc., organic fertilizers containing elements from animals.
(2) List of plants required for import permits of quarantine:
Plant propagating materials: seeds, seedlings and other live plants;
Fruits and vegetables: fresh fruits, tomatoes, eggplants, fruit of capsicum;
Tobaccos: tobacco leaves and tobacco flakes;
Grains and cereals: wheat, corns, paddies, barleys, ryes, oats, broomcorns, etc.;
Tuber crops: potatoes, cassavas, sweet potatoes;
Feedstuff: millfeed, bean cakes, bean hull, peanut hull, vegetable seed hull, etc.;
Others: plant culture materials
(3) Carriers of the above-mentioned animal and plant products shall apply to GDCIQ for import permits of quarantine. Lists of exhibitions and relevant exhibition documents shall be submitted. GDCIQ shall be in charge of verification, and AQSIQ shall be in charge of approval.
In case of any question, please refer to the special column about supervision of animal and plant on the website of GDCIQ: www.gdciq.gov.cn
3. The following objects are listed on the catalogue of objects subject to compulsory certificate:
electrical wire and cable, electrocircuit switch, electronic sets used for protection or connection, low-voltage electrical appliances, low-power electromotors, electric tools, electric welding, appliances for home use or similar use, audio-video equipments, information technology equipments, illuminating equipments, tele-communication terminal equipments, automobiles and parts, tyres for automobiles, safety glass, farm equipments, latex products, medical equipments, fire equipments, security control products, decorative products, wireless local networks.
For detailed lists of products and information, please refer to Bulletin NO. 33 in 2001, Bulletin NO. 60 in 2002, Bulletin NO. 6 in 2004 and Bulletin NO. 62 in 2004 of AQSIQ and CNCA, Bulletin NO. 3 in 2005 of CNCA, etc., on website: www.cnca.gov.cn.
4. The following special articles must get import permits for health quarantine before applying for inspection and quarantine:
Special articles such as microbes, biological products, blood and blood products, human tissues, etc..
Exhibitors or their agents shall apply to GDCIQ for import permits for health quarantine at least 7 workdays before consignation for delivery. Import permits for health quarantine for biological products and blood products shall be based on certifying documents issued by organizer of the Fair and warranty for returning all the exhibitions after the Fair. For import permits for health quarantine for human tissues and its products and microbes, relevant certifying documents issued by provincial administration departments of public health shall also be provided in addition to the above-mentioned documents.
Part ¢ô Disposal of Exhibitions after Exhibition
1. Basic requirements of disposal of exhibitions after the Fair
For exhibitions to be sold in China after the fair, exhibitors or their agents have to fill out Application Form for Inspection and Quarantine for Import Goods, complete relevant procedures and submit relevant certificates and documents issued by entry-exit inspection and quarantine bureaus when entering. Exhibitions can only be sold after passing inspection and quarantine. For exhibitions to exit after the fair, exhibitors or their agents have to fill out Application Form for Inspection and Quarantine for Export Goods, and apply to entry-exit inspection and quarantine bureaus relevant inspection and quarantine certificates attached. Entry-exit inspection and quarantine bureaus issue releasing forms in accordance with the law.
2. Disposal of animals and animal products, plants and plant products after the Fair
Usually, animals and animal products, plants and plant products are returned to the Fair attending countries or destroyed after the Fair. If exhibitors or their agents request to keep the exhibitions, the requests have to be approved by GDCIQ, and inspection and quarantine have to be conducted in accordance with the law. Those that pass the inspection and quarantine can be kept, and those that fail to pass the inspection and quarantine have to be disinfested or destroyed.
3. Disposal of food and cosmetics after the Fair
For food and cosmetics that will be sold after the Fair, inspections such as quality inspection, safety and health inspection and tag verification have to be applied when entering. Those that pass the inspection and quarantine can be sold. Those that fail to pass the inspection and quarantine cannot be sold, and have to be returned or destroyed instead after the Fair.
4. Disposal of exhibitions subject to ¡°3C¡± compulsory certificate administration
Exhibitions subject to ¡°3C¡± compulsory certificate administration that have already obtained the ¡°3C¡± compulsory certificates and have been added with ¡°3C¡± signs can be sold after the Fair; those that have not obtained ¡°3C¡± compulsory certificates or certificates of exemption issued by GDCIQ can not be sold in China and have to be returned or destroyed after the Fair.
Part ¢õ Inspection and quarantine regulations of objects carried by inbound personnel
Objects carried by inbound personnel shall be administrated in accordance with regulations for import exhibitions. According to Regulations for the Administration of Objects Carried by Inbound and Outbound Personnel, Bulletin 56 of AQSIQ:
1. Objects prohibited from being carried into the country
(1) According to Article 5, Paragraph 1 of Law of the People¡¯s Republic of China on the Entry and Exit Animal and Plant Quarantine, objects prohibited from entering into the country include:
A: pathogenic micro-organisms (including seed cultures of bacteria and viruses ) of animals and plants, insect pests and other harmful organisms;
B: relevant animals and plants, their products and other quarantine objects from countries or regions with prevalent epidemic animal or plant diseases;
C: animal carcasses; and
D: soil.
(2) According to List of plants prohibited from entering the country of the People¡¯s Republic of China, following plants and plant products are prohibited from entering the country:
Corns, soybean seeds, potato tubers and its propagating materials, elm seedlings and quicksets, pine seedlings and cions, rubber seedlings and buds and seeds, tobacco propagating materials, tobacco leaves, wheat (for commercial use), fruits, nightshades such as eggplants, capsicums and tomatoes, pathogenic micro-organisms (including seed cultures of bacteria and viruses) of plants, insect pests, harmful organisms, and other genetically-modified biological materials, soil.
(3) According to List of Animals, Animal Products and other quarantine objects prohibited from being carried and mailed into the country of the People¡¯s Republic of China, the following animal and animal products are prohibited from being carried and mailed into the country:
Animals: chickens, ducks, golden pheasant£¬owls, pigeons, quails, birds, rabbits, big white rats, brown rats£¬guinea pigs, squirrels, chipmunk, frogs, snakes, lizards, crocodiles, earthworms, snails, fish, shrimps, crabs, monkeys, pangolins, lynxes, bees, silkworms, etc.
If you carry the above-mentioned objects, please hand them over to the animal and plant quarantine officials for disposal.
2. The following objects are permitted to be carried into the country, but must be declared to the Customs and receive quarantine by the inspection and quarantine bureau:
(1) Seeds, nursery stocks and other propagating materials, tobaccos, grains, legumes (Import permits for quarantine must be obtained before entering.);
(2) Fresh flowers, cut flowers and dry flowers;
(3) Plant samples, exhibits and specimens;
(4) Nuts, dried, pickled and frozen vegetables;
(5) Rattan, willow, straw and wooden handicrafts;
(6) Pets, such as cats and dogs (One person is limited to bring only one pet and must hold quarantine certificate issued by the animal and plant quarantine office of the exporting country or region and rabies immunity certificate. Pets are required to be quarantined in the designated area by the inspection and quarantine bureau for 30 days upon entry.);
(7) Human blood, human blood products, microbes, human tissues and biological products imported with special permit.
If you carry the above-mentioned objects, please declare to the inspection and quarantine bureau for quarantine.
Part ¢ö Legal Liability
To those who fail to declare truthfully, who evade inspection, quarantine and supervision, and who cause the spread of a communicable disease, the inspection and quarantine bureau shall investigate their legal responsibilities in accordance with relevant laws and regulations. The personnel of the inspection and quarantine bureau must perform duties faithfully and impartially. Those who violate the law or are derelict in their duties shall be given disciplinary sanctions; and those who commit a crime shall be investigated for criminal responsibility in accordance with the law.
