Customs Improves Inspection Procedures for Imported Iron Ore

The General Administration of Customs has earlier announced its decision to optimise the inspection and supervision of imported iron ore (Announcement No. 69 [2020]) to further improve the business environment and level of trade facilitation. Among the key measures are the following:

• Instead of random sampling inspection of imported iron ore by customs batch by batch, inspection will be conducted upon application of enterprises. If necessary, customs may conduct supervision and inspection to monitor the toxic and hazardous content of the goods.

• The consignee of imported iron ore or its agent should file an application for quality certificate for the imported iron ore with customs if it needs such a certificate. Customs will issue the certificate upon on-site random sampling and laboratory testing if the imported iron ore passes on-site inspection and quarantine test.

• If the consignee of imported iron ore or its agent does not need a quality certificate for the imported iron ore, customs will directly release the imported iron ore after it passes on-site inspection and quarantine test.

The announcement took effect on 1 June 2020.

Source: General Administration of Customs