Which items are forbidden for entry by the People's Republic of China?
I According to Notice on Inspection and Quarantine for Immigration to China, the following items are prohibited for entry:
- Human's blood and its products;
- Fruits, capsicum, eggplant and tomato;
- Animal corpse and its specimen
- Soil;
- Animal pathogen, destructive insect and other harmful organism;
- Alive animal (except pet dog or cat) and animal's genetic material, including semen, fertilized egg and embryo, etc.;
- Egg, pelt, bristle, coffin bone, horn, meat (including viscera) and their products; fresh milk, cheese, butter, cream, whey mist, silkworm chrysalis, silkworm egg, animal's blood and their products; aquatic animal products;
- Transgene biological material;
- Worn-out clothes.
II According to applicable provisions issued by China Customs, the following items are prohibited for entry:
- All kinds of weapons, imitative weapons, ammunition and explosive objects;
- Spurious currency and feigned marketable securities;
- Print, film, photo, disk, movie, tape, videotape, videodisc, laser disk, computer storage medium and other objects, which are harmful to Chinese politics, economy, culture and morality;
- Various acrid poison;
- Opium, morphine, diamorphine, bhang, as well as other dope and psychoactive drug that may cause addiction;
- Animal, plant and their products, with dangerous germ, destructive insect and other harmful organism;
- Foodstuff, medicine or other objects, which are from epidemic areas and harmful to human and animal's health, or other pestiferous ones.
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Which items are permitted for entry but must be declared for quarantine?
Seed, nursery stock and other progenitive materials, tobacco, cereal and beans (The quarantine inspection and approval procedures must be handled prior to immigration);
- Fresh flower, cut flower and dried flower;
- Vegetal samples, exhibits and specimen;
- Dried fruits,dried vegetables,preserved vegetables and frozen vegetables;
- Bamboo,rattan,willow,grass and wood products;
- Pets,including dog and cat, etc. (Each passenger is allowed to carry one pet,with Hydrophobia Immunity Certificate and Quarantine Certificate issued by the departing country or local Quarantine Authority.The pet must be isolated 30 days for quarantine purpose at the place designated by China Inspection and Quarantine Authority after its immigration.)
- Human's blood and its products, microorganism, human's tissue and biological products, which are specially required for import.
If the above-mentioned items are carried with you, please contact China Inspection and Quarantine Authority on your own initiative for declaration and have them inspected.
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Which incoming passengers need to fill in the Customs Declaration?
Passengers who carry Level 2 and Level 3 items (except liquor or tobacco within the duty-free quantity limit) indicated in Classification Chart of Passenger's Baggage and Objects for Immigration and Emigration, which should be taxed by China Customs or are duty free within the quantity limit;
- Non-resident passengers as well as resident passengers having Re-Entry Visa of destination country (district), who carry more than one camera, portable radio / recorder, miniature camera, portable video camera or portable word processor each, in their personal belongings necessary for journey;
- Passengers who carry RMB cash over 6,000 Yuan, or passengers who carry gold or silver and its products over 50g;
- Non-resident passengers who carry cash of foreign currency over the sum equivalent to USD 5,000;
- Resident passengers who carry cash of foreign currency over the sum equivalent to USD 5,000;
- Passengers who carry cargo or samples of goods, or passengers whose carried articles exceed the range of their personal belongings for self-use;
- Passengers who carry animals, plants and their products, which are controlled under China Quarantine Code, or other objects that must be inspected and Customs cleared.
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