The General Administration of Customs ("GAC") has recently issued the revised Specifications on Completion of the Declaration Form of the Customs of the People's Republic of China for Imported and Exported Goods (the "Specifications") and also released the Announcement on Revising the Formats of the Customs Declaration Form for Imported/Exported Goods and the Record-filing List for Inbound/Outbound Goods. The Specifications will come into force as of August 1, 2018.
The Specifications contain adjustments and revisions to the requirements on how to provide information for a series of items, including the "pre-entry number", "customs number", "domestic consignee/consignor", "record-filing number", "mode of transportation", "means of transport and the voyage number", "end consumer or user/ manufacturer or vendor", "nature of collection, deduction and exemption of duties and taxes", "types of packages", "name, specification and model number of goods", etc. Also, the Specifications add requirements on how to complete five new items, namely "overseas consignee/consignor", "storage place for goods", "port of departure", "port of entry/exit" and "self-declaration and self-duty-payment". Furthermore, the Specifications alter the names of four items, updating the "consignee/consignor" into "domestic consignee/consignor" and the "annexed supporting documents" into "annexed supporting documents and codes thereof", among others.