On 22 December, the General Administration of Customs of China (GACC) issued Announcement No. 188 of 2023, announcing that with immediate effect, the import of Finnish poultry meat meeting the relevant requirements is permitted.

The Finnish poultry meat permitted for import refers to edible frozen chicken meat (edible part of the carcass of a live bird after slaughter, bloodletting and removal of the hair, viscera, head, neck, wings and feet) and its by-products, including: frozen chicken meat (whole or in pieces, excluding frozen chicken breasts, frozen chicken thighs), frozen chicken breasts, frozen chicken thighs, frozen whole chickens (excluding the viscera and gastrointestinal and other organs of the digestive tract), frozen chicken lutefisks; frozen chicken claws, Frozen whole chicken wings, frozen chicken wing (wing) centres, frozen chicken wing roots, frozen chicken wing tips, frozen chicken two-sectioned wings (including wing tips), frozen chicken cartilage, frozen chicken hearts, frozen chicken livers, frozen chicken bones, frozen chicken skin.

Producers (including slaughtering, splitting, processing and storage enterprises) exporting poultry meat to China should be under the supervision of the Finnish Food Agency and comply with the requirements of the relevant veterinary hygiene and public health laws and regulations of China, the EU and Finland; they should be registered by the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China, and unregistered producers are not allowed to export to China.

At the same time, the announcement also lists in detail the relevant requirements that need to be met for import, including the requirements of the manufacturer, certificate requirements, packaging requirements, storage requirements, transport requirements and so on.

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See the original announcement: http://www.customs.gov.cn/customs/302249/2480148/5588588/index.html