These are goods that Chinese laws and regulations require to go through inspection and quarantine by entry-exit inspection and quarantine authorities. Examples include (but aren’t limited to):

• (1) Commodities included in the Catalogue of Import and Export Commodities Subject to Inspection and Quarantine by Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Authorities;

• (2) Imported waste materials and second-hand mechanical/electrical products;

• (3) Performance testing and usability evaluation of packaging containers for exported dangerous goods;

• (4) Entry-exit containers;

• (5) Animals, plants, their products, and other quarantinable items being imported, exported, or in transit;

• (6) Loading containers, packaging materials, and dunnage used to transport animals, plants, their products, and other quarantinable items; plus imported packaging materials and dunnage made from animal or plant materials;

• (7) Transportation vehicles coming from areas with animal/plant epidemics; and transportation vehicles that carry animals, plants, their products, or other quarantinable items being imported, exported, or in transit;

• (8) Imported scrap ships that need to be dismantled;

• (9) Entry-exit personnel, transportation vehicles, transport equipment, and luggage, goods, or postal parcels that could spread quarantinable diseases;

• (10) Items travelers carry (such as microorganisms, human tissues, biological products, blood/blood products, human remains, ashes, waste, items that could spread diseases, plus animals, plants, their products, and other quarantinable items) and their accompanying pets;

• (11) International postal items (like animals, plants, their products, other quarantinable items, microorganisms, human tissues, biological products, blood/blood products, and other international mail that needs quarantine);

• (12) Other items that other laws or administrative regulations require to undergo inspection and quarantine.

• Goods where the importing country/region asks for a certificate from an inspection and quarantine authority to enter;

• Goods that relevant international treaties require to go through inspection and quarantine;

• Goods where the foreign trade contract says handover and payment must rely on certificates from an inspection and quarantine authority;

• Requests to issue origin certificates—like Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) Certificates of Origin and Certificates of Origin (General).

Built from the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS), this Catalogue covers most commodities that need mandatory inspection and quarantine. It’s the main reference for inspection and quarantine authorities to legally carry out inspection and quarantine on entry-exit goods. Below are definitions for Customs Supervision Condition Codes and Inspection and Quarantine Category Codes:

• Customs Supervision Condition Codes:

• A: Means the related commodity needs entry inspection and quarantine;

• B: Means the related commodity needs exit inspection and quarantine;

• D: Means the related commodity is jointly supervised by Customs and inspection and quarantine authorities.

• Inspection and Quarantine Category Codes:

• M: Means the related commodity needs import commodity inspection;

• N: Means the related commodity needs export commodity inspection;

• P: Means the related commodity needs entry animal/plant quarantine;

• Q: Means the related commodity needs exit animal/plant quarantine;

• R: Means the related commodity needs import food hygiene supervision and inspection;

• S: Means the related commodity needs export food hygiene supervision and inspection;

• L: Means the related commodity needs verification of civil commodities when entering.