Guangzhou Customs Clearance Handling Case - Imported Timber
Classifications of Imported Timber
China imports varieties of timbers. The most common imported timber include pine wood(pinus radiata, pinus sylvestris), eucalyptus, beech, Kosso, burma padauk, cocobollo, Cumaru/Tonka bean, Bu,binga, Mahogany, etc. Imported timber can generally categoried as wood logs and wood panels and can also divided to common timber and endangered timber based on the difference of the required documents for import customs declarations in China.
Import Tax Rates
Wood logs: import tariff 0%, vat 9%
Wood panels: import tariff 0%, vat 13%,
The import tariff for wood logs and panels, made from common or endangered timbers, is both zero.
The required documents for China customs declarations of imported timber include packing list, invoice, sales contract, seaway bill, declaration elements, weight note, certificate of origin, phytosanitary certificate, CITES or Certificate for Non-Regulated Species Listed in the HS Commodity Appendix of Import & Export on Wild Fauna & Flora for endangered or NT timbers.
Notes:
imported endangered timbers shall obtain domestic CITES from
Office of endangered species management in China with CITES issued by the exporting country. At present, most rosewoods are endangered species. The China customs declaration of endangered wood can not be proceeded without CITES issued by exporting country and China, which means the endangered wood can not be imported into China if lack of CITES.
One type of wood may have many different names in China, or one specific names may refer to several different woods. But one type of wood has just one Latin name. So it is very important to obtain the correct Latin name for the wood/timber to be imported.
As pictured is the declaration sheet for the imported lacewood(Platanua Cerifolia) slices from India that we as, a Guangzhou customs broker, helped clear at Nansha, Guangzhou port.
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