30 October 2018

Mainfreight Shanghai | Notice of New Export Customs shipping Manifest

Since the issuance of General Administration Order No. 172 of the Chinese Customs, the operation mode of the new manifest has been continuously explored and gradually popularized. According to the latest news, Shanghai Port plans to switch the operation mode of the export new pre-allocation manifest on 20th October 2018. In order to facilitate our understanding and ensure smooth customs declaration and shipments of our customers, we draw your attention to the following contents.

• Submission of shipping manifest  
  In order to ensure the smooth progress of the customs export of new manifests, we require customers to fill out the corresponding forms and send them to us by mail in a timely manner. Customers must provide accurate information and check customs declaration before they can arrange customs clearance.

• Major differences between new and old shipping manifest
  Compared with the old format, the new pre-allocation manifest format also needs to provide box information (including seal number, weight, etc.), the enterprise code of consignee / consignor / notify, and contact details.
   
• Operational issue during the transition period
  During the transitional period, hope our customers fill in the relevant information according to our company's specific requirements, and welcome to consult and communicate at any time.

• If there are special reasons (subject to the approval of Shanghai customs), the Shanghai customs will be relaxed to the port within three days, and those who exceed the time must go to the customs of the place where the business entity is registered.

Please visit the website of the general administration of customs, and recommend reading the notice of the general administration of customs no.74 of 2014, notice of the general administration of customs on clarifying the management requirements for advance declaration of import and export goods. You should understand the relevant policies and contents of the customs in detail and make active preparations for the operation of early declaration. Our company will continues to follow up and issue that latest notice according to the implementation progress.

Should you require any additional information, please feel free to contact your Sales or Customer Service Representative.