Guangzhou Customs Guide to Clearance of Import/Export Goods

Management of the Enterprises Granted for Convenient and Quick Customs Clearance
Ⅰ. What is the enterprise granted for convenient and quick customs clearance?
Customs General Administration and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation jointly issued policy measures to facilitate customs clearance in 2001 to further support the development of high-tech industries. The enterprise who meets the requirements, after application and approval, can apply to one or more facilitative procedures for customs clearance.
Ⅱ. What facilitative measures can the enterprises granted for convenient and quick customs clearance enjoy?
Customs clearance measures mainly include customs declarations in advance, networking declaration, rapid transit, door-to-door inspection and release, urgent customs clearance and release with customs security.
To shorten the operating hours of customs clearance, these enterprises can, in the case that the description, the specifications and the quantity of the import and export goods are determinate, declare to the customs in advance and submit related documents after import goods shipped and before arriving or within 3 days before export goods carried to the customs surveillance zone. Customs shall directly examine and release the goods after arrival of the goods.
ⅱ. Networking declaration
In their offices, the enterprises shall apply China E-Port platform and directly declare to the customs at the place where the goods enter the territory or the competent customs. The enterprises shall input all customs data once only. Therefore, the data shall transmit through network among import and export management departments. Customs examines the declaration electronic data and send electronic return receipt by which document audit and cargo clearance procedures may be made by the enterprises themselves or their entrusted agents in the customs clearance spot. Some customs in good condition shall collect duties by nominated bank online. Customs issues electronic payment notice to the enterprise, and release the goods based on the electronic return receipt of bank transfers.
ⅲ. Rapid transit
According to the requirements of above-mentioned enterprises, customs shall give priority to their goods imported and exported in the different domestic ports (not including the goods that the state designate the ports to import/export), to go through customs formalities of rapid transit transportation.
ⅳ. Door-to-door inspection and release
To the import/export goods that shall be examined but be not convenient to be examined in customs clearance spot, customs shall, basing on the requirements of the enterprises, give priority to dispatching members to examine the goods in the link of combined production or loading/unloading.
ⅴ. Urgent customs clearance
Customs gives priority to auditing to the import/export goods of above-mentioned enterprises. In the customs clearance spot with excessive import/export goods, customs shall establish “to facilitate customs clearance” window to go through customs formalities in advance. These enterprises can contact with the competent customs through an appointment for customs clearance procedures during working hours and holidays.
ⅵ. Release with customs securities
Because of a temporary inability to provide certain documents (not including import and export license documents) or other information, customs are unable to identify the goods classification, assessment of value and other customs clearance conditions resulting in unpunctual examination and release of the goods. To solve such problems, customs shall allow above-mentioned enterprises to go through customs formalities in advance, in the form of securities recognized by the customs, and to add on the document or information and pay duties or go through other procedures after a specified period of time.

Ⅲ. What conditions are required to apply for facilitative measures for customs clearance?
Any type of the following enterprises can apply to the Customs:
ⅰ. The large high-tech manufacturing enterprises (including state-owned enterprises, private enterprises and foreign-invested enterprises), registered with Guangzhou Customs, engaged in high-tech manufacture with production included in “Chinese Exports of High-tech Products Catalog” jointly compiled by the Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, Ministry of Finance, State Administration of Taxation and Customs General Administration, with export volume over 100 million U.S. dollars, can apply to the competent customs for nationwide facilitative measures for customs clearance.
ⅱ. Enterprises with the following conditions may apply to the customs authorities in Guangzhou Customs surveillance zone applicable to one or more regional measures to facilitate customs clearance procedures:
⒈ the high-tech enterprises with credit for category A, which registered with Guangzhou Customs as well as with annual export volume more than 10 million U.S. dollars and no smugglings and violations within six months.
⒉ the non-high-tech enterprises with credit for category A, which registered with Guangzhou Customs as well as with annual export volume more than 50 million U.S. dollars (with annual export volume more than 10 million U.S. dollars in the district of Shaoguan, Qingyuan, Zhaoqing, Chonghua, Huadu, Gaoming，Sanshui, Luoding and Yunfu) and no smugglings and violations within six months.
⒊ the enterprises with credit for category A and to whom the government gives emphasis to support.
Ⅳ. How does the enterprise granted for convenient and quick customs clearance go through customs formalities?
Guangzhou Customs specially sets up “to facilitate customs clearance” window at the customs scene. The enterprise granted for convenient and quick customs clearance can go through customs formalities directly in the window in advance.