Shenzhen Customs Clearance Support Case for Repaired Goods

Repair import, as the name suggests, refers to goods that are shipped to China for repair and will be re-exported after repair done. In nature, repair import is temporary. Seahog Logistics, as a China customs agent with years of experience, often handles China customs clearance procedures for repair goods including but not limited to equipment, spare parts, furniture and exported goods. 

As pictured, you can see a China customs declaration sheet for a shipment with 340 pieces of automobile data recorders that were exported from China previously and shipped back for repair. The import customs clearance was handled by Seahog’s Shenzhen customs agent team. Based on this case, Seahog would like to share the repair goods import flow as below

1. Arrange shipping to appointed port

2. Make appointment with CCIC to inspect the goods and issue relevant certificate

3. Settle DTHC charges and exchange D/O after shipment arrival

4. Declare to customs

5. Customs’ 3 levels of examinations and approvals

6. Make deposit payment to customs after deposit notice is issued by China. China customs will issue receipt after deposit is received.

7. Inspections 

8. Customs release

9. Arrange delivery 

10. After the repair is done, declare export as repair goods and apply for return of deposit with the export declaration sheet. 

Please note that repair period is 6 months. If the repair is not completed in 6 months, the importer shall apply for extension. In case that the importer does not apply for extension in time, the deposit will become taxes automatically and can not be returned even after the repaired goods is exported. 

The required documents for handling import customs clearance for repair goods include repair agreement, invoice, packing list, CCIC certificate. If the goods were originally exported from China, the original set of export documents shall be provided too. 

Shall you have any questions or need for repair import, please fee free to contact with Seahog. 

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Seahog Logistics- Since 1997 

Shenzhen customs broker, Shenzhen Import Agent, Freight Forwarder, Door to Door Solutions 

Contact：Ms Mabel

Mobile/whatsapp：+86-137-6070-0701

Email: 308704459@qq.com

Skype: rosehill-yh

QQ/WeChat: 308704459

Website: http://www.seahog-aw.com/

Getting Timbers Imported into China: the Four Steps You Shall Know

Step One: To Make Clear the Subject Timber 

Scientific Classification

A specific timber may have various names including name of the tree species, commodity name and scientific name. In addition, different countries may have different names for a specific timber. It is no wonder that some different names are actually for a same timber. The most accurate name for a timber is its scientific name in Latin Language. 

Classification by Processing Stage

Logs refer to wood cut to standard size after 

Fell Trees after being removed branch and leaves are cut to wood blocks that meets standard requirements. The wood blocks are what we called logs.

Converted timber refers to wood materials produced after logs are sawn, peeled, sliced, rotary-cut and/or other machine processing. Converted timber include wood beams, planks and wood chips but not include wood waste like Wood scraps, wood pellets, wood saw dusts and wood-wool 

Step 2: Quarantine Risk for Imported Plants

The Main Varieties of Pests

wood-boring insects, mollusk, nematode, fungus, bacteria 

The Keys of Inspections

1.Whether the imported timber carries soil

2.Whether the imported timber has bark?

3.Whether the imported timber comes with phytosanitary officially issued by the exporting country or region.

Imported logs with bark shall be effectively quarantine treated in the exporting country or region. The detailed treatments shall be remarked on the phytosanitary certificate. 

Step 3: The Import Flow 

China Customs Declaration 

1.Basic info name, variety, processing method, dimensions of cross section, length, specification, grade, whether blue stain, whether drying, whether with bark.

2.Document preparations: the importer or their China customs agent shall declare to animal and plant quarantine department of the port of entry with phytosanitary certificate officially issued by the exporting country/region and sales contract and other documents before/when the fauna and flora, fauna and flora products and other quarantine items arrive in China. 

Tips:

Timber that has volume quantity requirements shall be scale measured and provide scaling note.

Timber protected by CITES shall provide CITES Permit for Import & Export or Certificate for Non-Regulated Species Listed in the HS Commodity Appendix of Import & Export on Wild Fauna & Flora. Representative wood blocks shall be cut and sent to laboratory for identification. 

Quarantine

On-Field Quarantine

1.Check the goods and the documents

2.Targeted Examination: Based on the epidemic of the exporting country/region and our country’s quarantine required and the fact that different wood species may carry pests and the biological characteristics of the pests, the targeted examination will be carried out.

3.Sampling: representative wood blocks or bark on which pests or suspicious symptoms

 are found will be sent to laboratory for further identification

Laboratory Quarantine

The laboratory does quarantine identification on the submitted samples. 

Disposal live quarantine pests or other live pets with quarantine pests are found and the pests might spread, the below measures shall be taken 

1.If there are no effective quarantine treatment methods, the shipment will be returned or destroyed 

2.If there are effective quarantine treatment methods, China customs shall supervise the implementation of the quarantine treatments. 

Step 4: the Follow-up of Import Ban & Limit Control. 

From Feb 1, 2022, appointed port entry management method has been implemented for imported Pinus spp. (including logs and converted timber) from epidemic areas of Bursaphelenchus xylophilus. For example, in the jurisdiction of Guangzhou Customs, San Shan port of FoShan is the appointed port to imported pine wood from countries that epidemic of Bursaphelenchus xylophilus is happening. In case that imported pine wood is found carrying live Bursaphelenchus xylophilus or longicorn, the shipment shall be returned or destroyed.  CGAC will report in time to the plant quarantine department of the exporting country/region and will pause the importation of Pinus spp from the relevant enterprises and producing areas. The epidemic areas of Bursaphelenchus xylophilus include Canada, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Portugal, Spain and USA. 

Logs of Fraxinus are prohibited from importing from countries and regions where Fraxinus dieback is happening. 

coniferous wood of Virginia/South Carolina USA origin are banned from importing. 

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Seahog Logistics-Since 1997 

China customs broker, China Import Agent, Freight Forwarder, Door to Door Solutions 

Contact：Ms Mabel

Mobile/whatsapp：+86-137-6070-0701

Email: 308704459@qq.com

Skype: rosehill-yh

QQ/WeChat: 308704459

Website: http://www.seahog-aw.com/

Shenzhen|Guangzhou Customs Agency Cases for Imported Lubricating Oil

 

Lubricating oil (lube) is liquid or semisolid lubricants used on all types of vehicles and mechanical equipment to decrease frictions so as to protect workpieces of vehicles and equipment. Its functions mainly include lubrication, cooling, rust protection, cleaning, sealing and buffering. SeaHog, a very experienced China customs broker, provides door to door import logitics and China customs clearance services for a very wide range of products, including lubricating oil (lube). As pictured, you can see three customs declaration sheet for lubricating oil (lube) that SeaHog helped cleared. 

Shipment 1， base oil, originated from Qatar, packed in tank container, was cleared by SeaHog's Shenzhen customs broker team at Shenzhen bay. 

Shipment 2 & 3, lubricating oil, also originated from Qatar, packed in Flexitanks, was cleared by SeaHog's Guangzhou customs clearance agent team at Guangzhou Huangpu port. 

The China Customs Declaration Flow of Lubricating oil

1.Ask China customs clearance agency company review the required documents for handling customs clearance in China

2.Arrange shipping to China

3.Exchange D/O after shipment arrival

4.CIQ & Customs Declaration

5.Arrange tax payment to China customs. The import duty(tariff) will be different because of the applied conventional rate, MFN RATE or prefered rate. The value added tax is 13%, not matter the oil is from any country. The consumption tax is RMB1.52/liter.

6.Customs inspection

7.Customs release

8.Pick up the shipment and arrange delivery

Notes

1.Before declaration, it is very important to make sure the goods is lubricating oil (lube) or lubricant whose biggest different the mineral oil content. lubricating oil (lube) contains more than and equal to 70% of mineral content, while lubricant’s mineral oil content is less than 70%. The HS codes for lubricating oil (lube) and lubricant are different. China customs will collect consumption tax from lubricating oil (lube), and there is no consumption tax for lubricant. 

2.Before shipping, samples shall be provided to do testing so as to obtain identification report for non-hazardous goods. Some ports require this report for customs clearance. 

3.Chinese MSDS shall be prepared before shipment arrival.

4.Lubricating oil (lube) contained in tanks shall provide tank certificate. 

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Seahog Logistics- Since 1997 

Shenzhen customs broker, Shenzhen Import Agent, Freight Forwarder, Door to Door Solutions 

Contact：Ms Mabel

Mobile/whatsapp：+86-137-6070-0701

Email: 308704459@qq.com

Skype: rosehill-yh

QQ/WeChat: 308704459

Website: http://www.seahog-aw.com/

Shenzhen Import Clearance Agency Case: A Returned Bulldozer

 

Bulldozers are earth-moving machines that can excavate, transport and discard rock and soil. They have multiple usages in open pits. Some Chinese enterprises export bulldozers to foreign open pits to join their overseas projects. When the overseas projects are completed, the bulldozers may have to be returned back to China. Is it easy to operate the return procedures of the bulldozers? Recently, Seahog’s Shenzhen customs clearance agent team helped return a bulldozer from HongKong. As pictured is the customs declaration sheet for the returned bulldozer.  Based on this case, Seahog，an experienced China customs broker， would like to share something about the importation of returned goods. 

Three conditions shall be meet to declare the import goods as returned goods.

1.The goods has not been exported for over 1 year.

2.The importer can provide a full set of original export declaration documents

3.The importer can provide the certificate that proves the export has not yet obtained tax refund and the refund tax for the export has been returned.

The required documents for handling the import customs declaration of returned goods include packing list, invoice, contract, return agreement, letter that presents detailed information of the return, the report issued by CCIC, the original export documents, certificate that proves the export has not yet obtained tax refund and the refund tax for the export has been returned.

In the actual operation, it is quite common that original export documents can not be provided or the export has obtained tax refund and the exporter is not willing or not convenient to return the refund tax for the exporter, which make it impossible to declare the goods as returned goods. In this case, how to handle the import customs declaration. Well the importer normally has to declare the goods as general trade in this circumstance, which means to import the goods directly, to provide a full set of documents as required for general trade import, and to pay import duty and value added tax. 

Please note that return goods does not need to pay import duty and value added goods. When the mentioned three conditions are met and the required documents are provided, the import customs declaration for returned goods can be proceeded. It is suggested consult with a China customs clearance agency company before returning goods to China 

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Seahog Logistics- Since 1997 

Shenzhen customs broker, Shenzhen Import Agent, Freight Forwarder, Door to Door Solutions 

Contact：Ms Mabel

Mobile/whatsapp：+86-137-6070-0701

Email: 308704459@qq.com

Skype: rosehill-yh

QQ/WeChat: 308704459

Website: http://www.seahog-aw.com/