Details Concerning the Export License System Governing Eleven Categories of Export Commodities
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MINISTRY OF FOREIGN ECONOMIC RELATIONS & TRADE / CUSTOMS GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
DETAILS CONCERNING THE EXPORT LICENCE SYSTEM GOVERNING ELEVENCATEGORIES OF EXPORT COMMODITIES
(Issued by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the General Administration of Chinese Customs on 22 January 1982; Promulgated on 1 February 1982)
Article 1. The eleven categories (48 kinds) of export commodities catalogued by the various export departments throughout the country (inclusive of those already contracted but not yet executed through various forms of trade), shall be covered by corresponding export licence to be issued by the Ministry of Foreign Trade.
Article 2. The national foreign trade corporations, which undertake the task of fulfilling the state's export plan, shall apply,in accordance with the plan approved by the state, to the Ministry of Foreign Trade every six months for the necessary export licences.
Article 3. The Customs at various places shall release the exporting goods against the covering export licence (the original) signed by the Ministry of Foreign Trade, and annotate the covering export licence after the release. No other departments shall have the authority to issue the export licences. In the
absence of a covering export licence, any export item shall be dealt with as a case that goes against the regulations and as a case of smuggling.
Article 4. The notification shall come into force as from 1 February 1982. The eleven categories of export commodities are specified hereunder:
(1) Crude oil, heavy oil, processed oil.
(2) Coal.
(3) Steel products: thin plate, strip steel, steel plates (medium thickness), welded pipes, square steel base.
(4) Pig iron, coke, ferro-alloy, chromite.
(5) Plain glass.
(6) Non-ferrous metals: copper, aluminium, lead, zinc, tin, cobalt,bismuth, molybdenum, tellurium, copper products, aluminium products, and lead products.
(7) Lumber: logs, sawn lumber, plywood.
(8) Cement.
(9) Natural rubber.
(10) Soda, caustic soda, polyethylene, polypropylene, phosphorusore, sulphur, sulphide iron ore, benzene anhydride, liquid hydrocarbon.
(11) Rice, soyabeans, maize, sugar, cotton, rosin, tung oil,fluecured tobacco.
Note: Prior to this notification, the Ministry of Foreign Trade had already announced that the following 32 kinds of export commodities be export-licensed: mother-of-pearl, cultivated ginseng, leather working gloves, red dates, peppermint oil,menthol crystals, rabbit hair, edible moss, deer's antler, Chinese
caterpillar fungus, radix angelica sinensis, hoant chy, fructus lycii, rhizoma gastrodie, eucommia ulmodies, copties chinensis,fritillaria, rehmannia. Chinese yam, polis cocos, ligusticum wallichii, tuber, magnolia liliflora, Lo Han Kuo, geckos, cinnabar,pupalia geniculata, chrysanthemum, mountaineer's shoes with jute soles exported to France, reed curtains, Arabian gowns and trousers and rosin, etc. Except rosin, which is listed among the eleven categories of commodities, there are altogether 79 kinds of commodities that have been export licensed.
