Can Used Pianos Be Imported to China？How to China Customs Import Declaration？

Along with the development of our country’s music education and culture industry, the piano market in China is more unprecedentedly prosperous, and the piano import market is also full of vitality. Foreign second-hand pianos dominate the import piano market at present with high technical content in crafts and distinctive brand awareness. The brands of used pianos that our country has been importing is more than one thousand.

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Can Used Pianos with Ivory keys Be Imported to China?

Ivory is listed in AppendicesⅠof CITES. Our country has completely ceased commercial processing and sales of ivory and ivory products since Dec.31, 2017.

Can Used Pianos Made of Indian Rosewood be Imported into China?

Indian Rosewood (Dalbergia latifolia Roxb.) has been listed in AppendicesⅡof CITES as protected species. In accordance with relevant regulations of PRC Wild Life Law, to import wild life or wild life products that are in the list for wife life or wild life products banned or restricted from trading by international conventions that China has concluded or participated in, the importers shall obtain approval from The department in charge of wildlife protection under the State Council and get the import & export permit issued by National Office for the Import and Export of Endangered Species. China customs implements entry&exit quarantine according to relevant laws. And the importers or their China customs brokers handle customs procedures with import & export permit and quarantine certificate pursuant to relevant regulations.

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Any unit or individual shall not import endangered wildlife and their products by freight transport, post, courier services or passenger carry before obtain import & export permit issued by National Office for the Import and Export of Endangered Species

How to Declare the HS Codes for Used Pianos?

Pianos shall be classified to tax item 9201, including autopianos, harpsichord and other keyboard stringed instruments. But pianos what are over 100 years old shall be classified to tax item 9706 as antiquities. Instruments with significance of historical or anthropological study. electronic organs or other electronic instruments that can be equipped on pianos and obtain acoustics of other instruments shall be classified to 9207.

What to do if China customs Question the Declared Prices of the Imported Used Pianos?

Within 5 working days from the day Customs Notice for Questioning the Prices, the importer or the China customs agent shall submit statement that clarifies the reasons of low prices, the compositions, the involving parties of the trade, PRC Customs’ Supplementary Price Declaration Sheet for Import and Export Goods , contract, agreement or order, business letters/emails, factory invoice, freight invoice, insurance policy, voucher for settlement and payment of foreign exchange, user’s manual for the goods etc., to prove that the declared prices are honest and accurate or to prove that the special relationship between the seller and the buyer have not affected the transaction price.

How to Do Standardized Declaration for Used Pianos？

Product Code - refers to the design or factory code

Materials - prefers to the main materials that the mentioned instruments and their spare parts are made of

Type - refers to the category of the instrument(Vertical, horizontal ), new or used conditions, digital or not

Brand - refers to the brand logo that the manufacturer or the dealer has put on the commodity.

Year of Manufacturing

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