Analysis of new CIQ policies in January

Category	Announcement No.	Comments
Animal and Plant Product Supervision	Announcement No.3 of the General Administration of Customs in 2022	Announcement on quarantine requirements for imported stevia rebaudiana plants from Rwanda. From January 7th, 2022, Rwanda stevia rebaudiana which meets relevant requirements will be allowed to be imported. The admitted Stevia rebaudiana refers to the stems and leaves of stevia rebaudiana planted, processed and dried in Rwanda. The announcement regulates quarantine pests, pre-shipment requirements, entry inspection and quarantine, etc.
	Announcement No.2 of the General Administration of Customs in 2022	Announcement on inspection and quarantine requirements of imported Belarusian beef. From January 7th, 2022, Belarusian beef and its products that meet relevant requirements are allowed to be imported. The admitted Belarusian beef refers to frozen and chilled deboned and boned skeletal muscles (the body parts of cattle after being slaughtered and bled with hair, viscera, head, tail and limbs (below wrists and joints) removed). Products that have not been admitted include diaphragm, minced meat, minced meat, minced fat, mechanically separated meat and other by-products are not allowed to be exported to China. The imported Russian beef products refer to the commercial sterile canned food which is made of the above-mentioned imported beef as the main raw material, and is processed by processing, canning, sealing, heat sterilization and other processes, and does not contain pathogenic microorganisms or no n-pathogenic microorganisms that can breed in it at normal temperature. The announcement is standardized from the requirements of production enterprises, relevant inspection and quarantine requirements , certificate requirements, packaging, storage, transportation and labeling requirements, etc.
	Announcement No.117 of the General Administration of Customs in 2021	Announcement on quarantine requirements ofimported citrus plants in Laos. From December 27th, 2021, Laos citrus which meets relevant requirements will be allowed to be imported. The admitted citrus fruits must be products from citrus producing areas in Laos, including orange (scientific name Citrus reticulata, English name Mandarin), grapefruit (scientific name Citrus maxima, English name Pomelo) and Lemon (scientific name Citrus limon, English name Lemon). The announcement regulates orchards, packaging plants, quarantine pests, pre-export requirements, entry inspection and quarantine and unqualified treatment.
	Announcement No.110 of the General Administration of Customs in 2021	Announcement on national pine plant quarantine requirements for imported pine wood nematodes. From February 1st, 2022 , the logs or sawn timber of pine (scientific name Pinus spp., English name Pine wood) imported from Canada, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, the United States and other countries must meet this requirement and be imported from designated ports.
	Announcement No.109 of the General Administration of Customs in 2021	Announcement on preventing foot-and-mouth disease from being introduced into China in five western provinces of Mongolia. Since December 16th, 2021, it is forbidden to import cloven-hoofed animals and their related products directly or indirectly from five provinces in western Mongolia, namely Govi-Altai, Ubusu (Uvs), Zavkhan, Khuvsgul and Bayan hunger, including raw or processed cloven-hoofed animals. Once found, it will be returned or destroyed.
Import and export food	Announcement No.114 of the General Administration of Customs in 2021	Announcement on clarifying relevant requirements for inspection and quarantine of imported dairy products . The customs has made it clear that after the abolition of the Measures for Supervision and Administration of Inspection and Quarantine of Import and Export Dairy Products, on January 1st, 2022 , the import requirements for dairy products exported to China, such as the scope of quarantine approval and import safety requirements, will continue to be implemented.
Administrative approval	Announcement No.108 of the General Administration of Customs in 2021	Announcement on canceling the filing of the consignee of imported meat and the consignee of imported cosmetics in China. From January 1st, 2022, the registration of imported meat consignees and domestic consignees of imported cosmetics will be cancelled.

Post time: Mar-03-2022