China Customs

Trade Facilitation

1. World Trade Organisation (WTO)
   1. WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)
   2. WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS)
   3. WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT)
   4. WTO Agreement on Preshipment Inspection (PSI)
   5. WTO Agreement on Safeguards (SG)
   6. WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA)
2. World Customs Organisation (WCO)
   1. Revised Kyoto Convention (RKC)
3. International Bureau of Containers and Intermodal Transport (BIC)
4. International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO, Chicago Convention)
5. International Maritime Organisation (IMO)
   1. International Convention for Safe Containers (CSC)
   2. Convention Relating to Temporary Admission (Istanbul Convention)
6. Customs Convention on Containers (CCC, UN)
7. International Chamber of Shipping (ICS)
8. Organisation for Cooperation between Railways (OSJD)
9. International Road Transport Union (IRU)
   1. TIR Convention
   2. Guidelines on Safe Load Securing for Road Transport

Description: China Customs

The main objective of China Customs (the Chinese public agency) is to supervise and manage the international trade from the Customs territory of the Mainland China.

China Customs practices a centralised management structure. The principal tasks of China Customs are:

1. Customs control
2. Revenue collection
3. Fighting contraband
4. External trade statistics
5. Supervision and management of bond operations for processing foreign trade (Import, Export)
6. Audit-based monitoring and risk management
7. Port management

The revenue collected by the Customs of the People's Republic of China includes:

1. Customs duties
2. Import VAT
3. Consumption tax
4. Vessel tonnage tax.

China Customs have played a significant position in the conception and implementation of the import and export tariff schedule and preferential tax policies, CEPA (Closer Economic Partnership Arrangements with Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR), negotiations on Free Trade Agreements, implementation of rules of origin, zero import tariff treatment for fruits originating from Taiwan Province, and other relevant policies and measures.

1. Chinese economy - China ports - investment in China - Beijing - Pearl River Delta
2. Chinese Free Trade Agreements (FTA): ASEAN, Singapore, Pakistan, New Zealand, Peru, Costa Rica, Chile, APEC, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement, European Union, Andean Community...

Eurasian Land Transport Initiative (Silk Road)

1. China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor
2. Trans-Siberian Railway (Russia, Mongolia, China, North Korea)
3. Almaty-Bishkek Economic Corridor
4. Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor
5. China-Central Asia-West Asia Economic Corridor
6. Nanning-Singapore Economic Corridor
   1. Pan-Beibu Gulf Economic Zone
7. China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
8. Access to the:
   1. East-West Economic Corridor (Myanmar-Thailand-Laos-Vietnam)
   2. Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan-Afghanistan-Iran Transport Corridor (KTAI-ECO)
   3. Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia (TRACECA)
   4. India-Chabahar (Iran)-Afghanistan Economic Corridor
   5. Trans-Caspian Trade and Transit Corridor (Central Corridor)