China-Service Bulletins

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