The General Administration of Customs ("GAC") has recently issued the Announcement on Further Promoting the Paperless Regulation of Inward and Outward Conveyances (the "Announcement"), with effect from December 1, 2020.
The Announcement mainly stipulates the following: 1. Record-filing and related procedures. Where persons in charge of inward and outward conveyances and inward and outward conveyances service enterprises go through the procedures for record-filing, record-filing alteration and record-filing cancellation (revocation) of the relevant enterprises and conveyances, or enterprises engaged in road freight transportation between the Mainland of China and Hong Kong and Macao and road freight transportation vehicles traveling between the Mainland of China and Hong Kong and Macao go through the procedures for annual inspection and vehicle inspection, they may submit electronic data to the customs for handling the relevant procedures, without providing paper documents such as registration form for record-filing and related accompanying documents. 2. Procedures related to entry and exit. Where persons in charge of inward and outward conveyances and inward and outward conveyances service enterprises go through the procedures for entry and exit, travel within China and material addition/unloading/allocation, they may submit electronic data to the customs for handling the relevant procedures, without providing paper documents and related accompanying documents or submitting paper certificates for verification. 3. Other matters.