Announcement of Shanghai Customs on Developing Cross-border Trade E-commerce Import Business
III. After consumers participating in \r\ncross-border trade e-commerce make orders and payment for goods and payment of \r\ntaxes and other relevant cost, the e-commerce enterprise, payment enterprise, \r\nlogistics enterprises and storage enterprise shall submit goods trading data, \r\nfund settling data and logistic data to the service platform.
IV. To conduct \r\ndirect import business, the logistics enterprise shall transport goods into the \r\nspecial area it set up in the port (hereinafter referred to as the “special \r\narea”) to store up the goods or make sorting and other operations, and place the \r\ngoods at a different area separated from common goods and make declaration to \r\nthe customs after pasting two-dimension code tags to such goods.
V. To \r\nconduct Internet bonded import business, the storage enterprise shall make \r\ndeclaration for entering and leaving the Pilot Zone with the competent customs; \r\nmerchandises and goods shall be transported into and out of the Pilot Zone \r\nthrough the checkpoint After cargo is transported into the Pilot Zone, the \r\nstorage enterprise shall, through China (Shanghai) Pilot Zone Customs \r\nSupervision Information System (hereinafter referred to as the “Information \r\nSystem”) make addition to the electronic account book. The storage enterprise, \r\nafter pasting two-dimension tags on the goods, shall complete formalities for \r\nleaving the Pilot Zone with the customs centralized supervision post and make \r\ndeduction to the electronic account book through the Information System.
VI. \r\nThe customs inspection shall be done in the special area or at the post under \r\nthe customs concentrated supervision.
VII. The logistics enterprise, when \r\nreceiving a cargo, shall inspect the inside of the cargo to ensure the documents \r\ncomply with goods.
VIII. Where the e-commerce business, payment enterprise, \r\nlogistics enterprise or storage enterprise has any of the following \r\ncircumstances, the cross-border trade e-commerce business shall be suspended \r\ntemporarily:
1. non-compliance with conditions for conducting business;
2. occurrence of smuggling or import-export of goods infringing upon IP; \r\nor
3. having other illegalities for which the customs deems the \r\nsuspension necessary.
After compliance with conditions for conducting \r\nbusiness once again or after rectification and passing the acceptance, whether \r\nor not to make recovery, the customs shall determine according to actual \r\ncircumstances.
IX. The Shanghai Pilot Cross-border Trade E-commerce Service \r\nPlatform in this Announcement means the service platform with Shanghai Orient \r\nElectronic Payment Limited Company as the undertaking unit, which provides basic \r\nservices such as clearance and online tax collection. E-commerce enterprises \r\nshall be networked with Shanghai Customs Cross-border Trade E-commerce Clearance \r\nManagement System through the service platform. Apart from the abovementioned \r\nrequirements, storage enterprises participating in Internet bonded import \r\nbusiness shall also be networked with the Information System.
This \r\nannouncement comes into force on the date of promulgation.
Shanghai Customs
April 21, 2014