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16 November 2020  
(20-8214) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  CHINA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   General Administration of Customs, P.R.C.  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different fro m above:   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [   ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [X], 5.7.1 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  
Food;  (HS: 02, 03, 04, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22); (ICS: 67)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Regulations of 
the People's Republic of China on the Registration and Administration of Overseas 
Manufactures of Imported Food (Draft for Comments) (9 page(s), in Chinese)  
6. Description of content:  In order to implement the relevant provisions of Articl e 96 of 
the Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China, to meet the demands of further 
opening -up and rapid growth of imported food trade in China,  to ensure  the safety  of 
imported  food and to promote  trade facilitation,  China has refined and improv ed the  
requirements  for the registration  and management  of overseas  manufactures  of imported  
food on  the basis of existing  regulations.  
The main contents  include  the application  subject,  application  conditions,  application  
methods  and materials,  examination  methods,  registration  number  and validity  period, 
and management  measures (including  information  update,  suspension,  cancellation,  
revocation, etc)  of overseas manufactures that have finished registration.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Prevention of deceptive practices and consumer protection; Protection of 
human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:   
• Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined.  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined.  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  G/TBT/N/CHN/1522  
 
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  11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
WTO/TBT National Notification and Enquiry Center of the People's Republic of China  
Tel: +86 10 57954631 / 57954627  
E_mail: tbt@customs.gov.cn  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2020/TBT/CHN/20_7057_00_x.pdf  
 