The General Administration of Customs ("GAC") has recently issued the announcement [2018] No.40 and the announcement [2018] No.41 to publish Version 1.2 of electronic message formats of inbound and outbound manifests for water and air transportation and Version 1.2 of electronic message formats for declaration of inbound and outbound and domestic conveyances of water and air transport that carry goods subject to the customs supervision, both effective from June 1, 2018.
The announcement No.40 expressly states that, Version 1.2 of electronic message formats of inbound and outbound cargo manifests for water and air transportation is designed to update electronic message formats of the "original manifests" and "advance manifests" for cross-border water and air transportation, to be specific, including the XML Schema of the Customs of China for Electronic Message of Inbound and Outbound Cargo Manifests for Water and Air Transportation, the Instructions on the Design of Version 1.2 of Electronic Message Formats of the Customs of China of Inbound and Outbound Cargo Manifests for Water and Air Transportation and the Instructions on Changes to the Electronic Message Formats of the Customs of China of Inbound and Outbound Cargo Manifests for Water and Air Transportation.