In order to thoroughly implement the State Council’s tax and fee reduction policy, implement the "six stability" and "six guarantees" tasks, continue to optimize the port business environment, and reduce the burden on enterprises, the General Administration of Customs has decided to adjust some of the supervision requirements for import and export goods. The announcement is as follows:

1. Cancel the supervision requirements for the provision of pest quarantine reports for imported cultivation media for quarantine approval and the first import of cultivation media for risk assessment and sample inspection.

2. Export feed and feed additive manufacturers who do not have registration requirements in the importing country or region are exempt from customs registration.

3. Cancel the regulatory requirements for exporting aquatic animal farms to provide water quality monitoring reports and importing aquatic animal isolation farms to provide health certificates.

4. Cancel the regulatory requirement of providing self-inspection qualification certificates for exporting grain declarations, and instead providing quality qualification declarations.

5. Cancel the regulatory requirements for the registration of outbound fruit orchards and packaging plants to submit to the local customs the inspection records of fruit toxic and hazardous substances.

6. Cancel the regulatory requirements for the submission of water quality inspection reports for the production and processing water to the local customs for the Hong Kong and Macao vegetable production and processing enterprises when filing.

7. Cancel the regulatory requirements for enterprises to submit the certification documents of raw materials for Hong Kong and Macao vegetable processing, the shipping list, and the factory qualification certificate during customs declaration.

8. Cancel the self-inspection requirements of export production enterprises on raw and auxiliary materials used in the processing of meat and aquatic products.

9. Cancel the regulatory requirements for the consignee or its agent to submit the certificate of origin of imported aquatic products to the customs at the port of import.

Cancel the regulatory requirement that the feed fed to export aquatic product farms comes from feed processing factories that have been filed by the customs.

10. imported cosmetics shall declare that they have obtained the sanitary license approval for imported cosmetics approved by the relevant national competent authorities when handling customs declaration procedures and are exempt from submitting the approval certificate.

Cosmetics for which the country has not implemented sanitary licenses or filings, the regulatory requirements for the provision of safety assessment materials for substances that may have safety risks issued by institutions with relevant qualifications are cancelled, and product safety commitments are required.

Cancel the regulatory requirements for the filing management of export cosmetics manufacturers.

This announcement will be implemented from the date of release.

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