Regulations on China Customs Entry and Exit
According to the Customs Law of the People's Republic of China and PRC Customs' Supervision and Management on Inward and Outward Passengers' Luggage, the luggage carried by inward and outward passengers shall enter or leave the territory at a place where there is a Customs office, and must be declared to China customs officers as required.
Articles limited to be Carried into or out of China
Tobacco & Alcohol
Passengers Category |
Limited amount of duty-free tobacco products |
Limited amount of duty-free alcoholic drinks above 12 per cent proof |
Passengers who make a round trip between Hong Kong and Macao (including Hong Kong and Macao people as well as mainland passengers visiting their relatives in Hong Kong and Macao and as tourists) |
200 cigarettes or 50 cigars or 250 grams of tobacco |
1 bottle of wine( less than 0.75 liter) |
Passengers who make a round trip between Hong Kong and Macao in the same day or multiple round trips in a short term |
40 cigarettes or 5 cigars or 40 grams of tobacco |
No duty-free wine allowed |
Other inward passengers |
400 cigarettes or 100 cigars or 500 grams of tobacco |
2 bottles of wine (less than 1.5 liters) |
Articles for personal use
Articles for personal use are limited to a camera, a portable cassette player, a minicam, a portable video cam and a word processor for non-residential passengers and residential passengers with a re-entry visa for entering the country or region of destination. Articles beyond those limits must be truthfully declared to the china customs and must go through the relevant formalities. Passengers must carry the articles released by the Customs with them when leaving China.
Gold, silver and their products
Gold, silver and their products carried into China by passengers are limited to reasonable quantities for personal use. If they are over 50 grams, passengers shall fill out a declaration document to declare to the Customs. The Customs will release the same amount of products declared when the passengers go out of China, and will also release the gold, silver and their products (including new crafts like inlaid jewelries and utensils, etc.) bought in China in light of the "special invoice" issued by the People's Bank of China.
Foreign exchange
Foreign currencies, traveler's checks and credit cards carried into China by passengers are unlimited. If more than 1,000 USD or an equivalent amount of other foreign currency is carried into China by residential passengers (5,000 USD by non-residential passengers), it should be declared to the Customs. The Customs will release the same amount of currencies declared when the passengers go out of China. The foreign exchange in excess of the above amount carried out of China by passengers will be inspected and released by the Customs in light of the "License for Carrying Outward Foreign Exchange" issued by the State Administration of Foreign Exchange.
RMB
No more than 6000 RMB is allowed to be carried into or out of China by passengers.
Cultural relics (including the works of deceased famous modern painters)
If passengers carry the inward cultural relics out of China, they shall declare to the Customs in detail. And the relics carried out must be identified by the Administrative Department of Chinese Culture.
Passengers shall declare to the Customs in detail when carrying cultural relics out. Cultural relics bought in any stores in China should be inspected and released by the Customs in light of the identification marker affixed and the invoice for exporting cultural relics issued by the Administrative Department of Chinese Culture. Cultural relics got through other means in China should be inspected and released by the Customs in light of the identification marker affixed and the export license issued by the Administrative Department of Chinese Culture. No unidentified cultural relics are allowed to be carried out. If one carries the relics out without actual declaration to the Custom, he will be punished according to the law.
Chinese medicinal plant and Chinese patent medicine
Passengers are allowed to carry Chinese medicinal plant and Chinese patent medicine with the value of no more than 300RMB to foreign countries and of no more than 150 RMB to Hong Kong and Macao. They are also allowed to post Chinese medicinal plant and Chinese patent medicine with the value of less than 200 RMB to foreign countries and of less than 100 RMB to Hong Kong and Macao.
When inward passengers go out of China with reasonable quantity of Chinese medicinal plant and Chinese patent medicine for personal use, they will be released by the Customs in light of relevant invoice and foreign exchange memo.
Musk, Chinese medicinal plant and Chinese patent medicine in excess of the afore mentioned limited value are not permitted to be carried out.
Tourist commodities
If passengers carry tourist souvenirs and crafts (excluding articles in need of export license or export duty as required by the State) bought in China with foreign currency out, they will be released by the Customs in light of relevant invoice and foreign exchange memo.
Articles prohibited to be carried into China
Arms, imitation arms, ammunition and explosives of all kinds;
Counterfeit currencies and counterfeit valuable securities;
Publications, films, photographs, gramophone records, movies, audio and video tapes, laser discs, computer storage media and other articles that are detrimental to the political, economic, cultural and moral interests of the People's Republic of China.;
Deadly poison of all kinds;
Opium, morphine, heroin, marijuana and other addictive kef and psychotropic substance;
Animals, plants and products thereof infected with or carrying pathogenic germs, insect pests and other harmful organisms;
Unsanitary foodstuff, medicines and other articles coming from epidemic stricken areas and those harmful to man and livestock or those capable of spreading diseases;
Articles prohibited to be carried out of China
All the articles that are prohibited from being carried into China;
Manuscripts, publications, films, photographs, gramophone records, movies, audio and video tapes, laser discs and computer storage media that are connected with State secrets;
Valuable cultural relics and other cultural relics that are prohibited from being carried out of China;
Animals in danger of becoming extinct, rare animals and plants (including respective specimens), their seeds and reproducing materials. more...
