| China Import Prohibitions |
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| The following items are prohibited for import into China: |
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| 1. Weapons, imitations of weapons, ammunition and explosives |
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| 2. Counterfeit money and counterfeit securities |
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| 3. Printed matter, films, photos, records, audio and video tapes, VCDs, computer storage media and other commodities which are harmful to China's politics, economy, culture, and/or ethics |
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| 4. Strong poisons |
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| 5. Opium, morphine, heroin, cocaine, and other addictive narcotic and psychotropic drugs |
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| 6. Animals and/or plants and their products carrying dangerous viruses, bacteria and injurious insects |
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| 7. Food, medicine and other commodities which are harmful to the health of humans and animals and/or from epidemic infected areas |
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| China Import Restrictions |
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| 1. Dangerous Goods as defined by IATA Radio reception equipment, transmission equipment and coding equipment |
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| 2. Tobacco |
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| 3. Alcohol |
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| 4. Country Currency |
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| 5. Gold and silver products |
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| 6. Guns and weapons - strictly controlled by license |
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| 7. Wildlife - controlled by CITES and health restrictions |
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| China Export Prohibitions |
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| The following items are prohibited for export out of China: |
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| 1. Printed matter, manuscripts, films, photos, gramophone records, audio tapes, video tapes, VCDs, computer storage media and other commodities considered injurious to national security |
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| 2. Antiques and other cultural items, created before 1949 |
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| 3. Rare and endangered animals and/or plants, including their specimens and seeds |
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| 4. Natural bezoars |
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| 5. Musk |
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| 6. Platinum in unwrought or in powder form |
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| 7. Platinum in plates and sheets |
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| 8. Nostoc flagelliforme. (black moss) |
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| 9. Used electronic & machinery products |
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| 10. Tiger bones |
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| 11. Rhinoceros horns |
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| 12. Ivory |
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| 13. Products made by prisoners |
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| 14. Chinese ephedra (medicinal plant) |
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| 15. Stamps over 100 years old |
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| 16. Products made by prisoners |
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| China Export Restrictions |
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| 1. Dangerous Goods as defined by IATAR |
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| 2. Radio reception equipment, transmission equipment and coding equipment |
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| 3. Tobacco, Cigarette, Wine |
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| 4. Soil |
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| 5. Toxic chemicals as listed in the List of Toxic Chemicals Banned or Severely Restricted in the P.R.C. (The First Group) published by the State Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) |
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| 6. Gold and silver products |
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| 7. Guns and weapons - strictly controlled by license |
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| 8. Wildlife - controlled by CITES and health restrictions |
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| 9. The endangered and precious animals and plants (samples and seeds and reproductive material |
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| 10. National currencies |
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