Новые таможенные правила принимают силу! Обязательно прочтите для импортеров замороженного мяса и водных продуктов: пересмотренные правила для мест назначенного надзора

1. What Are Customs Designated Supervision Venues?

2. Venue Construction & Acceptance: Higher Access Thresholds and Stricter Procedures

• Time limit for project approval: Upon approval, construction and pre-acceptance application must be completed within 2 years. Approval will become invalid if the deadline is missed, requiring cold chain parks and bonded warehouses to strictly follow the timeline.
• Multi-level review: The whole process involves assessment by local authorities, preliminary review by local customs offices and final acceptance by the General Administration of Customs, including document review and on-site verification. Supervision capacity of customs staff and laboratory testing capabilities are also assessed.
• Mandatory joint prevention and control: Local governments, customs authorities and operating enterprises are required to jointly establish emergency response mechanisms for food safety and animal/plant epidemic prevention to ensure rapid disposal of problems such as veterinary drug residues and animal diseases.

3. Daily Operation: Dynamic Supervision with Penalties for Violations

• Timely reporting for information changes: Any adjustment to the name, address or operator of a venue must be reported to customs within the specified period. Incomplete formalities will disrupt normal customs clearance.
• No unauthorized reconstruction: Renovation, expansion or new construction of cold storage, inspection areas and cold chain facilities must be reported in advance. Customs may suspend all import operations if the construction undermines epidemic prevention and supervision. Full re-acceptance is required before resuming services.
• Qualification suspension for long-term idleness: Venues with no relevant import business for two consecutive years will have their supervision qualifications suspended. Re-qualification inspection is mandatory for reactivation.
• Annual random inspection and delisting mechanism: The General Administration of Customs conducts annual random re-inspections nationwide. Non-compliant venues will be ordered to rectify within a time limit. Those in the following circumstances will be permanently delisted:
  1. Causing major animal/plant epidemics or major food safety incidents;
  2. Failing to meet epidemic prevention and supervision standards after rectification;
  3. Failing to complete rectification within the time limit after business suspension;
  4. Remaining out of service for more than one year with no possibility of resumption.

4. Practical Impacts on the Frozen Food Industry and Importers

1. Standardized clearance with fluctuating efficiency: Imported frozen meat and aquatic products can only be processed at qualified designated venues. Small cold storage and temporary warehouses will be excluded from cold chain supervision. Cargo will be increasingly concentrated at large formal port warehouses, likely exacerbating warehouse congestion, queuing and container detention at major ports.
2. Stricter quarantine and sampling inspection: Targeting veterinary drug residues, animal diseases and contaminants, testing standards will be further tightened. Following frequent detections of drug residues in imported meat in recent times, unqualified products will be intercepted immediately. Relevant venues and enterprises involved will be placed under enhanced supervision. Purchasers need to conduct stricter product selection and traceability management.
3. Industry reshuffling for cold chain venues: Small venues with inadequate supporting facilities will be phased out. Large bonded warehouses and port parks equipped with high-standard cold chain systems and sound epidemic prevention measures will become mainstream, leading to more concentrated cargo distribution and warehousing choices.
4. Elevated operational risks: Traders, wholesalers and catering buyers are advised to source goods exclusively from venues with official qualifications and verify customs clearance documents and quarantine certificates. Suspension of operations at upstream venues will directly lead to cargo detention, extra demurrage fees and disrupted sales.

5. Summary & Recommendations

• In the short term, keep track of warehouse capacity and clearance efficiency at ports, and arrange booking and delivery schedules reasonably. Strictly verify quarantine reports and clearance channels during procurement to mitigate compliance risks.
• In the long run, the industry will develop toward higher standards, stricter supervision and intensive operation. Comply with new regulations and cooperate with qualified partners to ensure stable business development.