MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND GENERAL ADMINISTRATION OF CUSTOMS ANNOUNCEMENT ON PUBLICIZING FORBIDDEN COMMODITY CATALOGUE OF PROCESSING TRADE

Ministry of Commerce and General Administration of Customs Announcement on Publicizing Forbidden Commodity Catalogue of Processing Trade

In accordance with Foreign Trade Law of the PRC, Customs Law of the PRC and relevant requirement on national macro-control and industry development policies, products like iron ore, pig iron, scrap steel, billet, steel ingot, rare-earth raw ore and rock phosphate in powder are decided to be listed in Forbidden Commodity Catalogue of Processing Trade (see Appendix for details).

This announcement takes effect as of May 19, 2005. Processing trade operation of the above-mentioned products, which are examined and approved by commercial departments and put on records by Customs, shall be conducted in line with current Processing Trade Policy till July 31, 2005. Since August 1, 2005, imported materials and exported finished products shall be regulated as ordinary trade cases, and Record Number on Import and Export Declaration Form shall not be filled in with Processing Trade Manual Number. For the imported bonded materials with no cancellation after verification before August 1, 2005, Processing Trade Manual Number shall be filled in Remark Form of Export Declaration Form. The duration of Processing Trade Manual with expiry date later than May 19, 2005 shall not be prolonged.

This Announcement also takes effect in bonded zones, export processing areas and other areas with special supervision of the Customs.

2601110000	Unsintered iron sand and its concentrate
2601120000	Sinter-roasting iron sand and its concentrate
2601200000	roasted pyrite
7201100000	non alloy pig iron, phosphorus content is no more than 0.5% ,calculated by weight
7201200000	non alloy pig iron, phosphorus content is no less than 0.5%, calculated by weight
7201500010	alloy pig iron
7201500090	spiegel
7204100000	casting pig waste crushed aggregates
7204210000	stainless steel waste crushed aggregates
7204290000	other alloy steels waste crushed aggregates
7204300000	tin-coated steel waste crushed aggregates
7204410000	wastes left by mechanism processing
7204490090	untitled steel waste crushed aggregates
7204500000	crushed iron ingot for remelting
7205100000	pig iron, spiegel and steel particles
7205210000	alloyed steel powder
7205290000	pig iron, spiegel and other steel powder
7206100000	iron ingot and non-alloy steel ingot
7206900000	iron and non-alloy steel in other primary forms
7207110000	rectangle section billet with width 2 times thinner than thickness
7207120000	other rectangle section billet (exclude squres)
7207190000	semi-finished goods of iron and non-alloy steel, with carbon content is no more than 0.25% ,calculated by weight
7207200000	semi-finished goods of iron and non-alloy steel, with carbon content is no less than 0.25% ,calculated by weight
7218100000	stainless steel ingot and other stainless steel products in primary forms
7224909000	other alloy billet
2530902000	rare-earth metallic mine
2510101000	non-pan milling agustite
2510109000	other non-pan milling natural calcium phosphate
2510201000	pan milling agustite
2510209000	other pan milling natural calcium phosphate

Laws of the People's Republic of China

MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND GENERAL ADMINISTRATION OF CUSTOMS ANNOUNCEMENT ON PUBLICIZING FORBIDDEN COMMODITY CATALOGUE OF PROCESSING TRADE