Shenzhen Customs Agent-Shenzhen Customs Broker-Shenzhen Customs Clearances for Imported Goods: April 2015

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Import Wine to China - Something You Shall Know about The Customs Clearance and Logistics

Seahog provides a wide range import services for importation of red wine, including China customs declaration services, commodity inspection declaration, Chinese label making, Chinese label registration, customs clearance. Considering the complexity of red wine import, it is highly suggested to choose a professional China import customs agent to reduce risks and eventually save costs.

Consignee Qualifications
The consignee of imported red wine shall have running qualification of alcohols in their business scope, which means it shall hold business certificate for alcohols and sanitary hygiene license. Plus, it shall get registered at local Department of Commerce as a foreign trade dealer. In case that your consignee does not qualified, you can use Seahog’s qualifications.

Transportation Notes for Red Wine Import
For large quantity red wine, sea freight is recommended, while air freight is suggested for small quantity high-end exclusive red wine. The transportation mode shall be decided before the sales contract is signed. It is also recommended to book shipment as early as possible to avoid temporary change that will affect shipping and delay shipment. In summer, goods hold up at the dock easily leads aging of red wine because of high temperature. Plus it is important to get red wine insured during transportation as bottle red wine is fragile item.

Customs Clearance Flow of Imported Red wine
Prepare required materials for customs clearance in China(including certificate of origin, health certificate, bottling date certificate, original label and its Chinese translation, test report by third party lab, ingredient list, certificate for grape varieties, invoice, packing list, sales contract )and shipment→Chinese label design→shipment arrival→declare customs & commodity inspection, Chinese label registration→ inspections, sampling test, paste Chinese label→obtain Chinese sanitary

Seahog has been helping clients get red wine from the main producing areas imported to China. Welcome to contact us if you plan to export red wine to China.

SeaHog International Logistics Co., Ltd, hoding import and export rights, is a third-party comprehensive logistics company that focus on import customs clearance in China. Headquarter in Shanghai, Seahog’s service network extends from Shanghai to Tianjin, Qingdao, Ningbo, Suzhou, Chengdu, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Duanguan.

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SeaHog Logistics-Since 1997
Expert China Customs Brokerage
Contact： Ms Mabel
Mobile：86-137-6070-0701
Email: 308704459@qq.com
Skype: rosehill-yh
Website: http://www.seahog-aw.com/

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Friday, April 24, 2015

Shenzhen Customs Clearance Agent: Notes for Red Wind Import/Export to China

Seahog’s Shenzhen customs clearance for red wine, olive oil and milk powder has become kind of a brand service in China import logistics. In the 18 years of actual on-field operation, Seahog is very professional and experienced in this section.
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SeaHog Logistics-Since 1997
Expert China Customs Brokerage
Contact： Ms Mabel
Mobile：86-137-6070-0701
Email: 308704459@qq.com
Skype: rosehill-yh
Website: http://www.seahog-aw.com/

Here Seahog shares some basic knowledge of Shenzhen customs clearance for imported red wine.

What qualifications the consignee of imported red wine shall hold?
In China, the consignee of an imported red wine shipment shall include alcohol s retail/wholesales in their business scope and hold business permit for alcohols and relevant hygiene license. And the consignee company shall register at local Department of Commerce as a Foreign Trade dealer and thus obtain import and export right.

China Import Customs Clearance Flow of Red Wind
1.Chinese label registration which requires to submit original labels, Chinese translation of original labels, business license of consignee,
2.Document preparation- certificate of origin, health certificate, packing list, invoice, sales contract, bottling date certificate, test report,
3.Declare customs & commodity inspection. We will obtain tax bills within 5 to 7 days
4.Inspection & release - China customs will do inspection after import taxes are paid. If no problem, customs will release the cargo.
5.Arrange delivery to appointed place
6.Commodity Inspection. CIQ officers will come to draw samples and inspect goods. CIQ will issue Chinese sanitary certificate if the samples pass test.

Declaration Elements of Red wine include:
1:Commodity Name(Chinese name and Foreign name):
2: Processing Method(brewed by fresh grapes? ):
3:Alcohol Concentration:
4:Grade:
5:-Vintage(if their is no vintage date, pls declare as non-vintage):
6:-Producing Area(Chinese name and Foreign name):
7:Winery/chateau Name(Chinese name and Foreign name):
8: Grape Variety(Chinese name and Foreign name):
9:-Packing specifications( unit packing specification * unit QTY/box):
10:Brand(Chinese name and Foreign name ):

Import Tax Rates of Red Wine
HS code 2204210000
Import duty: 14%
Value added tax: 13%
Consumption tax： 10%

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Shenzhen Export and Import Customs Clearance for ATA Exhibition Goods

SeaHog , a big China customs broker company of over 400 employees, provide professional ATA import and export customs clearance services in Shenzhen for exhibition items in its huge service network that covering Shanghai, Tianjin, Qingdao, Ningbo, Suzhou, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Hong Kong and Chengdu. We guarantee fast customs clearance, 100% legal and complete procedures, and professional solution that help you save both time and costs.

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SeaHog Logistics-Since 1997
Expert China Customs Broker
Contact： Ms Mabel
Mobile：86-137-6070-0701
Email: 308704459@qq.com
Skype: rosehill-yh
Website: http://www.seahog-aw.com/

Customs Clearance Flow for ATA Exhibition Items
1.Provide list of exit & entry exhibition items, prepare deposit, and submit to China Council for the Promotion of International Trade for ATA certificate
2.Book shipment
3.Submit ATA certificate, packing list, invoice, letter of authorization for customs declaration, letter of authorization for commodity inspection declaration to declare customs and commodity inspection
4.Customs examine documents, do inspections, and release shipment
5.join an exhibition
6.do import customs clearance at original port of export after exhibition
7.Apply for return of deposit after re-import/re-export from China Council for the Promotion of International Trade for ATA certificate

Goods of below uses can apply for China ATA certificate
1.Items exhibited or used in international expo, trade fair, exhibition, international conference and similar activities.
2.Professional devices used by all kinds of professionals, for example, publishing,audio and video broadcasting, and camera equipment required for film producing; measuring instruments needed in machine installation and testing abroad;medical apparatus and instruments needed by medical personnel; performing costumes and stage properties required by actors, orchestras and troupes.
3.Containers, pallets, packing materials, samples and goods that are related to commercial activities
4.Scientific research equipments, education Supplies, welfare items of seamen and other goods related to education, scientific and cultural activities
5.Sports supplies and other items used in sports matches, sports performance, and sports training outside China

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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Shenzhen Port Successively Returned 8 Batches of Imported Grape Wine with Excessive Iron

Seahog Shenzhen - the expert Customs Clearance agent in Shenzhen, learnt from CIQ Shenzhen that inspection and quarantine officers detected eight batches of grape wine with excessive iron content successively in Yantian port and Futian Bonded Zone from April 2 to 9. The involving unqualified products have been returned.

Yantian port and Futian Bonded Zone are main import regions for grape wine in Shenzhen. Since the beginning of this year, grape wine import quantity in both the regions have been growing rapidly. At present, excessive iron content has become one of the main return reasons for imported grape wine. It is introduced that excessive iron will affect health of human body. It may lead to iron poisoning and do harm to heart, liver and pancreas.

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Shenzhen Port: 26.1% Kitchenware Imported In First Quarter of 2015 Was Found Unqualified

Our Shenzhen Customs Clearance team learn from CIQ shenzhen that, in the first quarter of 2015, CIQ shenzhen totally supervised 203 batches of Kitchenware imported by general trade. The total weight was 338.9, and the total value was 5 million US dollars. Therein 53 batches were found unqualified, which meant the the disqualification rate reached 26.1%, rose by 2.8% compared with same period last year. CIQ has returned, destroyed or ordered the relevant importer to make modification based on the actual situations of the involving shipments.

In the mentioned unqualified products, 5 batches were related with safety and sanitation projects. The main performance was that the products would dissolve out poisonous and harmful substances during use. As kitchenware has direct contact with food, the poisonous and harmful substances can enter human body with food, and cause harm to and affect human body. Other involving products had unqualified Chinese labels which would easily lead to misuse of products and thus cause safety problem. In terms of import source, 44 batches of kitchenware from USA, EU, Japan and Korea, accounting for 83% of the total unqualified batches.

Products that were found unqualified in safety and sanitation projects were mainly plastic and metal work. Quality of these two kinds of products are easily affected by materials, auxiliaries, and processing techniques.

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Professional Customs Clearance Services in Shenzhen For Imported Milk Powder

Milk powder China import customs declaration agent, milk powder Shenzhen import customs clearance, how to import milk powder into China? How to resolve the common problems during milk powder importation? How long it takes to get milk powder imported into mainland China .

Contact： Ms Mabel
Mobile：86-137-6070-0701
Email: 308704459@qq.com
Skype: rosehill-yh
QQ/WeChat: 308704459
Website: http://www.seahog-aw.com/

Seahog provide a full set of import services for imported milk powder, which including pick-up, sea freight, commodity inspection, customs clearance, label-making and registration and all other relevant procedures required.

The operation flow of milk powder importation
Prepare goods→pick up goods→export declaration→sea freight to China→import customs clearance in China→land transportation in China
Good preparation: for example: 900g/can, 6 cans/ carton, around 6.3KG/carton. Pack milk powder well in pallet and wrap the pallet with glue film . The weight for each pallet shall not exceed 900 KGS, otherwise milk powder can will get squashed.

The customs clearance flow:
1.Chinese label registration which shall be done before shipping
2.Document preparation
3.Arrange shipment
4.Shipment arrival
5.Exchange document
6.Import commodity inspection declaration
7.Import customs clearance
8.Pay taxes
9.Move milk powder to customs controlled warehouse
10.Sampling test
11.Obtain Chinese sanitary certificate
12.Delivery

The most important point of milk powder importation is that the importer(the consignee)shall hold running qualification of milk powder, and automatic import license is required. At present, most importers of milk powder in China do not hold this qualification to obtain automatic import license. Well, Seahog has this qualification, and thus can help clients solve this issue.

Compared with common food, the customs clearance of milk powder is more complex. More documents and registrations are required. Therefore, clients needs a professional and experienced China import customs agent like Seahog to ensure the customs clearance done very well and no mistakes. Seahog has rich experience and actual operation cases in imports of milk powder, welcome you contact us to get profession milk powder import customs clearance solution. We will help you save costs and time with high competitive prices and good services.

---- Know more about Seahog
SeaHog International Logistics Co., Ltd， headquartered in Shanghai, has ten branches including one in Shenzhen, and one in Guangzhou. Seahog’s main service resources include overseas departments, eight import warehouses distributed in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Tianjin, 100 million L/C credit agency for purchasing machines, equipment, production lines, logs & wood, large quantity raw materials, luxury items and so on. Since establishment in 1997, Seahog has been operation the import customs clearance for all kinds of imported food products, like milk powder, mineral water, olive oil, beer, jelly, oatmeal, biscuits, chocolate, beverage, fruit juice, honey, grape seeds, canned food, coconut oil, tea, red wine, noodle, cakes, coconut candies, fruit-vegetable powder at main ports in China.

Seahog has a professional China customs clearance agent team that provides customs declaration, commodity inspection declaration, logistics transportation, Chinese label design, warehouse, port to door solution and door to door solution for clients. Our team is familiar with relevant regulations and laws while having rich actual operation experience and flexible customs clearance and commodity inspection channels, which greatly reduces the label registration and inspection time and thus allows clients take the market as quick as possible.

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Shenzhen Port Seized Over 900 Unqualified Imported Food in 2014

Wine, aquatic products, beverage, nuts, biscuits, cakes and many other food products imported through Shenzhen ports keep increasing sharply. The hidden quality and safety risks can not be ignored. Since end of 2014, CIQ have successively seized 38 unqualified imported food samples , involving red wines, beverage, nuts, biscuits, aquatic products, and some pot foods. The main unqualified reason was about exceeding additives, heavy metals, and microorganism contained in the food.

In fact, since 2014, the disqualification of imported food through Shenzhen port has been quite common. From January to November 2014, the unqualified imported food samples found by CIQ via tests exceeded 900 varieties.

Shenzhen CIQ does strict check on imported food, destroys or returns unqualified food, so as to prevent unqualified food flow into market. Shenzhen CIQ reminds consumers that food imported into China through legal channel shall be pasted Chinese label that meets the requirements of GB7718-2011 General Rules for Labels of Pre-packing Food. （This news was selected and translated by Seahog - Shenzhen Customs Clearance Agent ）

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Shenzhen Port Detected Exceeding Preservative in Imported Wines

As disclosed by Shenzhen CIQ, inspection and quarantine officers detected preservative sorbic acid from two grape wine samples of Greece and Spain, the contents exceeded national standards by 23% and 17% respectively. This was the first time that CIQ found exceeding preservative in grape wine imported from these two countries.

Sorbic acid is a common preservative. During the processing or grape wine, the adding of sorbic acid helps to ensure the cleanliness and sanitation of equipment and containers. Meanwhile, it work as a bacteriostat and sterilization to the microorganism during processing. Adding sorbic acid will increase the production costs, and will slightly affect flavor of grape wine. Long-term drinking of grade wine containing exceeding sorbic acid, will restrain growing of bones to some extent, and will threat heath of kidney and liver.

Shenzhen CIQ officers told us, from 2014 to March.20, 2015, they detected 105 wine samples containing preservative from total 1238 imported wine samples. The adding rate was 8.5%. Therein 6 samples were found unqualified because of exceeding preservatives. The unqualified rate was 0.48%. And before 2014, Shenzhen port did not detect any disqualification case for preservatives. It suggests that the preservative problem in imported wines, especially in mid-end and low-end wines, could not be ignored. (This news was selected and translated by Seahog - Shenzhen Customs Clearance Agent )

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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Export Beer to Shenzhen - the Customs Clearance Support

With years of actual operation experience in China import customs clearance, Seahog provides clients with best solution for beer import and help clients save time and costs in every import procedures. Our company operates in Tianjin, Qingdao, Shanghai(headquarter), Ningbao, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Dongguan where we have offices. With a huge China import customs clearance network like this, Seahog is able to satisfy clients’s specific need to explore any part of China market and provides standard hassle-free import logistics services

Contact person: Ms Mabel Xie
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Professional, High-quality, and Efficient Customs Clearance Services in Shenzhen

Common Liquors & Their HS codes
Beer, hs code 2203000000
Wine, hs code 2204210000
Wiskey, hs code 2208300000
Wodka, hs code 2208600000

China Import duty, Import tax for wine
Import duty:14%
Value added tax:13%
Consumption tax: 10%

China Import duty, Import tax for beer
Import duty:0%
Value added tax:13%
Consumption tax: collect based on Customs duty-paid price. China customs collects RMB250/ton as consumption tax for beer whose Customs duty-paid price is above 370USD/ton, and s RMB220/ton for beer whose Customs duty-paid price is below 370USD/ton

Required documents for beer customs clearance in China
1.Original Labels and their Chinese translation.
2.Business license of the shipper (the seller) and the manufacturer - scancopy will be ok.
3.If the beer abstained any award(s) before, the scan copy of the award is required
4.Certificate of Origin – official.
5.Health Certificate (Official - also called Sanitary certificate, or certificate of free sales).
6.Packing Certificate and its The Chinese translation - by manufacturer.
7.Ingredient Analysis Report by third party laboratory.
8.Nutrition Facts Test Report by third party laboratory.
9.Production date certificate (also called bottling date certificate) - by manufacturer.
10.Sales contract, invoice, packing list.

Possible Problems that may occur in customs clearance
1.Chinese labels are not up to CIQ standards, and modifications are required
2.The sampling test results show that the involving beer is unqualified, and return approval procedures shall be proceeded, the documents will be deleted, and submitted taxes will be returned. Or the shipment will be destroyed directly
3.The pasted Chinese labels are not inconsistent with the registered patterned, and thus the modification and re-pasting are required
4.Customs requires documents to prove the declaration prices
5.If sell the beer before obtain Chinese sanitary certificate, the importer will be fined by CIQ. In serious situation, the importer’s business license will be revoked
Our expertise will help you get all the required documents correctly, and navigate you smoothly go through the complex China customs clearance procedures for imported beer.

Shenzhen Port Intercepted and Captured Imported Clothing with Unqualified Organic Marks

On Feb.12, officers of Shenzhen CIQ did on-field inspection on a batch of clothing imported through Wenjindu port, and found that the labels marked “100% Organic Cotton”. However, the importer could not provide authentication certificate of organic product, sales certificate of organic products, certification mark, product mark and other relevant certification materials, which meaned the clothing had not obtained our country’s organic product certification. According the new certification and management methods for organic products, products that have not yet obtained our country’s organic product certification shall not mark”Organic” on their package, their smallest selling unit package, and their labels, and shall not have any descriptions or patterns that may mislead consumers and make them think they are organic products. Shenzhen CIQ judged the involving clothing unqualified, and informed enterprise modify the labels, and required that the clothing shall not be sold or used before completion of modification. This was the first time that Shenzhen ports intercepted and captured unqualified organic textile products since the implementation of new certification and management methods for organic products on April 1, 2014.

Organic products are products that are produced and processed based on the principles of organic agriculture and production pattern of organic products, and that consumed by human, eaten by animals while meeting standards of organic products. In recent years, with the renewal of people’s consumption concepts, organic products with natural and environment-friendly concepts are becoming a consumption hotspots. When buying organic products, consumers can check if the product label and package are marked with “organic”, or obtain the photocopy of relevant China organic product authentication certificate and the sale certificate of organic products from the seller to ensure the consistency between the products and the documents . - This news was selected and translated by Seahog Shenzhen Branch - The Shenzhen Customs Clearance Services Provider

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Shenzhen Port Returned USA Chips with Exceeding Colorant

Recently, a batch of chips from USA was imported through Shenzhen Wenjindu port. Shenzhen Wenjindu CIQ did sampling test on it. And the test result show that, one of the chip varieties contained colorant lemon yellow 208mg/kg and sunset yellow 81.1mg/kg

In this case, lemon yellow and sunset yellow were mixed and used in the chips. And the sum of their proportion to their maximum usage is greater than 1, which exceeded the limited requirements of hygiene standards for use of food additives. Wenjindu CIQ had reported risk early warning and returned these unqualified chips

According to the relevant our country’s hygiene standards for use of food additives, lemon yellow and sunset yellow can be used in fruit juice, beverage, sparkling drinks, compound wines, candies, and puffed food, but the standards have very strict limitation over their use amount.

When people consume food containing sunset yellow, lemon yellow and other pigments for a long time or consume too much at a time, certain hurts will be brought to kidney and liver . This news was selected and translated by Seahog Shenzhen Customs Clearance Agent Team