In accordance with the Measures for the Administration of Licenses for the Export of Goods (Ministry of Commerce No. 11 of 2008) and the 2012 Catalogue for Goods Subject to the Administration of Export Licenses( Ministry of Commerce , General Administration of Customs Announcement No. 98 of 2011 ), the 2012 Catalogue for Graded License Issuance of Goods Subject to the Administration of Export Licenses is now issued and relevant questions are notified as follows:

First, there are altogether 49 kinds of goods under the administration of the export license. The export licenses shall be issued by Quota License Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce (hereinafter referred to as the License Bureau), Special Commissioner’s Offices of the Ministry of Commerce (hereinafter referred to as Special Commissioner’s Offices) as well as local commerce department issuing agency authorized by the Ministry of Commerce.

1.  License Bureau is responsible for issuing export license for the following 6 goods: corn, wheat, cotton, coal, crude oil, and product oil.

2. Special Commissioner’s Offices are responsible for issuing export license for the following 26 goods: Rice, corn flour, wheat flour, rice flour, lumber, cattle, live hog, chicken, coke , rare earth, antimony and antimony products , tungsten and tungsten products, zinc ore, tin and tin products, silver, indium and indium products , molybdenum and phosphorus ore; rush and rush products, carborundum, talc lump( powder) , magnesite, bauxite, licorice and licorice products; platinum (exported through processing trade ) ,natural sand (including standard sand) .

3.  The local issuing agency are responsible for issuing export license for the following 17 kinds of goods the : chilled beef, frozen beef, chilled pork, chilled chicken, frozen chicken, ozone-depleting substances, paraffin wax, zinc and zinc-based alloys , metal parts and products, motor vehicles (including complete sets of parts) and its chassis , motorcycles (including all-terrain vehicle) and its engine and frame , molybdenum products, citric acid, penicillin industrial salt , vitamin C, and sulfuric acid disodium .

Second, the License Bureau is responsible for issuing export licenses for central enterprise located in Beijing

Third, to maintain the normal order of operation, some export goods are designated to certain issuing agency for export license and to entry out through designated ports. To export such goods, enterprises shall apply to the designated issuing agency for export licenses and make export declaration at the specified port. The issuing agency shall issue an export license in accordance with the specified port .

1.  Huangpu Customs, the Beihai Customs and Tianjin Customs are the Customs ports for the Antimony and Antimony products.

2. for Products under the category of magnesite that are mixtures containing over 70% magnesium oxide by weight (HS code : 3824909200 ) , the export license shall be issued by the Special Commissioner office and are no longer with designated customs ports. The export license for other products under the category of magnesite are issued by the Special Commissioner’s Office in Dalian , and Dalian ( Dayao , Yingkou , Bayuquan , Dandong , Dadong Port ) , Qingdao ( Laizhou Customs ) , Tianjin (East Harbour , Newport ) , Changchun ( Tumen ) , Manchuria are designated as the Customs ports.

3. Tianjin Customs, Shanghai Customs, Dalian Customs are the designated Customs ports for licorice. And the Tianjin Customs, Shanghai Customs are the designated Customs ports for licorice products.

4. The designated Customs Ports for rare earth are Tianjin Customs, Shanghai Customs, Qingdao Customs, Huangpu Customs, Hohhot Customs, Nanchang Customs, Ningbo Customs, Nanjing Customs and Xiamen Customs.

5. the export licenses for export live cattle, hogs, and chicken to Hong Kong shall be issued by Guangzhou and Shenzhen Special Commissioner Office.

6. the issuing of re-export license for saw timber produced with imported log: Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Commerce is responsible for issuing export licenses for businesses within the province and the designated customs ports are Dalian Customs and Suifenhe Customs; Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Department of Commerce is responsible for issuing the export licenses for businesses within the Autonomous Region and the designated customs ports are Manchuria, Erlianhaote, Dalian, Tianjin and Qingdao Customs; Xinjiang Uygur autonomous Region Department of Commerce is responsible for issuing the export licenses for businesses within the Autonomous Region and the designated customs ports are Alashankou , Tianjin and Shanghai Customs. Fujian Provincial foreign Trade Department is responsible for issuing export licenses for businesses within the province and the designated customs ports are Fuzhou , Xiamen, Putian and Zhangzhou customs .

7. Special Commissioner’s Office in Guangzhou and Hainan Province are responsible for issuing within their respective province the export license for natural sand to Hong Kong and Macau. Fuzhou Special Commissioner’s Office is responsible for issuing the export license for natural sand to Taiwan and the Customs port are designated to the customs of the province where the enterprises are located. And the Fuzhou Special Commissioner’s Office is responsible for signing and issuing of the export license for natural sand to Taiwan.

Fourth, In accordance with the 2001 Administration of Export Pilot of Saw Timber Produced with Imported Log (Forestry [2001] Issuing No. 560 ) jointly issued by the State Administration of Forestry , the former Ministry of Foreign Trade , and General Administration of Customs, enterprises qualified for the re-export license for saw timber produced with imported log shall apply for the licenses from the issuing agencies listed in the Article 3 Paragraph 5 of the notice in accordance with the Export Certificate of Saw Timber Produced with Imported Log, and the issuing agencies shall indicate “Saw Timber Produced with Imported Log” in the reference column.

Fifth, the export license for the ozone-depleting substances shall conform to the rule of “each license for each batch” mechanism.

Sixth, when issuing the export licenses, the issuing agencies shall strictly conform to the Measures for the Administration of Licenses for the Export of Goods, the 2012 Catalogue for Goods Subject to the Administration of Export Licenses and Work Specification of the Issuing of the Export Licenses( Issuing No.398[2008]) published by the Ministry of the Commerce.

The Catalog shall come into force Since January 1, 2012, and the 2011 Catalogue for Graded License Issuance of Goods Subject to the Administration of Export Licenses shall be abrogated on the same date.