Insights

  • EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment

    On December 30, 2020,China’s President Xi Jinping, held a long-awaited video conference with European Union leaders including Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron. After the video call, the European Union announced in a press statement, “The EU and China conclu...
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  • China’s Export Control Law

    The Export Control Law of the People’s Republic of China was officially implemented on December 1, 2020. It took more than three years from drafting to formal promulgation. In the future, China’s export control pattern will be reshaped and led by the Export Control Law, which, togethe...
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  • Summary and Analysis of Inspection and Quarantine Polices of Animal and Plant Products

    Category Announcement No. Comments Animal and Plant Products Access Department of Animal  and Plant  Quarantine , General Administration  of  Customs ( No.85  [2020]) Warning   circular   on   further   strengthening   quarantine   of   imported   Australian   logs.   In order   to ...
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  • The Full E-Commerce Package is now Online

    WCO has uploaded the Cross-Border E-commerce Framework of Standards, the E-commerce FoS provides 15 baseline global standards with a focus on the exchange of advance electronic data for effective risk management and enhanced facilitation of the growing volumes of cross-border small and low-value ...
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  • 2020 Conference on Customs Clearance and Compliance Management Taihu Festival of Customs Broker and Specialist

    2020 Conference on Customs Clearance and Compliance Management Taihu Festival of Customs Broker and Specialist

    In 2020, affected by the outbreak of the Covid-19 and the deterioration of Sino-US relations, China foreign trade development will face many challenges. But at the same time, the rapid development of digital trade represented by “cross-border e-commerce” highlights the resilience of m...
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  • The Identification of Force majeure is indispensable

    Unpredictability In a specific case, the average rational person can foresee; Or according to the subjective conditions of the actor, such as age, intellectual development, knowledge level, education and technical ability, etc., to judge whether the parties to the contract should foresee. Inevita...
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  • Announcement on the Tax Provisions on Goods Exported and Returned due to Force Majeure due to Pneumonia Epidemic in COVID-19

    With  the  approval  of the  State  Council, the  Ministry of  Finance, the  General Administration  of  Customs  and  the  State  Administration  of  Taxation  jointly issued a notice recently, which promulgated the tax provisions on the export of returned goods due to force majeure caused by pn...
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  • Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism [2020] No. 255

    Preventive and comprehensive disinfection program of imported cold chain food Disinfection scope: disinfection of loading and transportation tools of imported cold chain food and internal and external packaging of products. Focus of customs supervision Responsible for carrying out COVID-19 monito...
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  • Draft for Soliciting Opinions of Toothpaste Supervision and Management Measures

    Draft for Soliciting Opinions of Toothpaste Supervision and Management Measures

    Classification Catalogue of Toothpaste Efficacy Function: The permitted scope of claims in the catalogue should be consistent with the claims of toothpaste efficacy, and claims should not be suspected of exaggeration. Naming Requirements of Toothpaste If toothpaste naming involves efficacy claims...
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  • Brief Analysis of Toothpaste Supervision and Management Measures

    Brief Analysis of Toothpaste Supervision and Management Measures

    On June 29th, after Regulation on Cosmetics Supervision and Administration was promulgated, Article 77 of the Supplementary Provisions stipulated that toothpaste should be managed with reference to the regulations on ordinary cosmetics, and the specific      measures for reference management shou...
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  • Summary of Networked Certificated of Origin

    Name of Networked Prederential Trade Agreement  Code Transition Period Related  Announcements  China – Georgia Free Trade Agreement 20 1/1/2020-31/12/2020 Announcement No.198 of 2019 of the General Administration of Customs China-Singapore Free Trade Agreement or Chi...
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  • Shanghai Xinhai Customs Brokerage Co., Ltd. Passed Re-examination of Advanced AEO Certification

    Shanghai Xinhai Customs Brokerage Co., Ltd. successfully passed re-examination AEO advanced certification of Shanghai Customs   The Subsidiary of Oujian Group, Xinhai Customs Brokerage has received strong support from the Customs since it cooperated with the re­-certification of  AEO advanced cer...
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