Precise Grasp of the Applicable Conditions of the Duty-free Policy

According to the latest Catalogue of Technologies and Products Encouraged by the State for Import in 2025,Equipment ImportsThree core conditions must be met simultaneously for duty exemption:

• The use of the equipment complies with the national industrial policy
  • New energyEquipment manufacturing is preferentially applicable
  • Intelligent testing equipment must pass the certification of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
• The technical parameters of the equipment reach international advanced standards
  • Provide the original factory technical parameter certification documents
  • Certification report from a third-party testing institution
• The importing entity has relevant qualification documents
  • High-tech enterprise certificate
  • Project filing notice

Key Nodes in the Entire Process of Agency Services

Professional agencies usually carry out work in three stages:

• Pre-confirmation stage
  • Pre-classification of equipment HS codes (error control within 3%)
  • Cross-verification of the negative list (comparison with five major databases)
• Document preparation stage
  • Compilation of a Chinese-English對照表 of technical parameters
  • It is recommended to verify through the following methods:Explicit verification (focus on checking RCEP provisions)
• Customs declaration stage
  • Automatic verification by the electronic port system
  • Preparation of Document on Tariff Regulations Differences

Guide to Avoiding Common Declaration Misunderstandings

According to the statistical data of the General Administration of Customs in June 20251-, 32% of the duty - free applications were rejected due to the following issues:

• The description of equipment functions contradicts the technical parameters
• The declared value deviates more than 15% from that of similar equipment in the same period
• The key supporting materials have expired
  • The validity period of the test report is usually 2 years
  • The project approval document must be within the validity period

Typical service case analysis

Case of a certain intelligent manufacturing enterprise importing German precision machine tools:

• Re - classification through HS code reduces the tariff rate from 9.7% to 0%
• Using the RCEP cumulative rules of origin saves $38,000
• The agency service cycle is compressed to 18 working days (the industry average is 28 days)

Criteria for selecting agency services

High - quality agencies should have the following characteristics:

• Customs AEO Advanced Certification qualification
• Professional classification engineer team (more than 3 people)
• The success rate of similar projects in the past three years is not less than 92%
• Provide full - process legal risk guarantee services