GACC Clarifies Filing of Customs Declaration Units

On November 16, 2022, GACC issued the Announcement on Further Clarifying Matters Concerning the Filing of Customs Declaration Units (“Announcement”), which came into force on December 1, 2022. The Announcement clearly stipulates the conditions that should be met by consignees and consignors of import and export goods as well as their branches, the conditions that should be met by customs declaration enterprises and their branches, and the conditions that should be met for temporary filing.

The Announcement clarifies that if the customs declaration unit has one of the following three situations stipulated, the customs will order it to make corrections within 10 working days: (1) The unit does not apply registration for information change such as unit name, type of market entity and entity domicile; (2) The information submitted to the customs conceals the real situation or the unit falsifies documents; (3) The unit refuses to cooperate with the customs supervision and field inspection.