Announcement on Issues Related to the Electronic Network of origin of China-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement

In order to further promote the implementation of the "China-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement" (hereinafter referred to as the "Agreement") and to facilitate the customs clearance of goods under the "Agreement", since April 30, 2018 (including the date, the same below), "China - The Pakistani origin electronic information exchange system was formally put into operation and real-time transmission of electronic data of origin under the Agreement. The relevant matters are announced as follows:

1. If the import consignee or its agent (hereinafter referred to as importer) applies for enjoying the China-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement tax rate at the time of import, it shall be notified in accordance with the General Administration of Customs Notice No. 51 of 2016 (hereinafter referred to as “Announcement No. 51”). In accordance with relevant regulations, the "Customer Registration Form for Imports of Customs of the People's Republic of China" or the "List of Entry Forms for Import Goods of the Customs of the People's Republic of China" (hereinafter referred to as "import declaration form") shall be filled in with the "no-origin declaration mode."

2. From April 30, 2018, when an importer declares, for imported goods without electronic data of origin, the system will indicate that there is no electronic certificate of origin certificate. During the period from April 30, 2018 to December 30, 2018, if there is no electronic certificate of origin certificate, the importer may, according to the General Administration of Customs Notice No. 67 of 2017, pass the Preferential Trade Agreement "Element declaration system" enters the electronic certificate of origin certificate.

As of December 31, 2018, if an import customs declaration that is applied for enjoying the preferential tax rate under the "Agreement" indicates that there is no electronic certificate of origin, the importer shall handle the relevant tax guarantee procedures in accordance with the current regulations.

3. In order to avoid difficulties in the import customs clearance of exported goods at the Pakistani side, the consignor of the export goods or its agent (hereinafter referred to as the exporter) shall fill out the "Customs Export Goods of the People's Republic of China" in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Announcement No. 51. "Customs Declaration Form" or "PRC Customs Export Listing List" (hereinafter collectively referred to as "export declaration form").

4. Due to special circumstances, the customs cannot receive the electronic data of the certificate of export of the certificate issued by the visa agency, resulting in the customs declaration of the declaration form of the enterprise when exporting the goods into the client prompting that there is no electronic certificate of origin certificate, or when the goods are exported, the exporter fails to follow the 51st If the announcement requires the completion of the country of origin of the goods, the exporter shall promptly apply to the customs for the amendment of the customs declaration form and supplement the origin information after obtaining the information on the country of origin of the exported goods.

5. If the export declaration form needs to be modified after the export of the goods because of changes in the certificate of origin, the exporter should apply to the customs for the formalities for the modification of the customs declaration form and supplement the origin information.

Special announcement.

General Administration of Customs

April 16, 2018