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	JOINT NOTICE OF GENERAL ADMINISTRATION OF CUSTOMS AND OTHERS ON RE-CIRCULATING THE STATE COUNCIL REPLY REGARDING "EXPORT PROCESSING ZONE"

	(No. 299 [2002] jointly promulgated by General Administration of Customs, State Planning Commission, State Economic and Trade Commission, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economy, General Administration of Tax, Administration of Industry and Commerce and Foreign Exchange Administration on July 22, 2002)


SUBJECT : EXPORT PROCESSING ZONE
ISSUING DEPARTMENT : GENERAL ADMINISTRATION OF CUSTOMS AND OTHERS OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
ISSUE DATE : 07/22/2002
IMPLEMENT DATE : 07/22/2002
LENGTH : 756 words
TEXT :

In order to earnestly implement the Reply of the General Office of the State Council on Relevant Issues Concerning the Export Processing Zones (Letter No. 64 [2002] of the General Office of the State Council, hereinafter referred to the "Reply"), we hereby transmit the reply to you. The relevant issues are notified as follows:

I. The relevant departments of the regions that will establish additional export processing zones should seriously study the spirit of the Reply and lose no time in making preparations pursuant to the guideline of "optimizing the storage, controlling the increase, regulating the management, enhancing the standard" proposed by the leaders of the State Council;

II. The establishment of additional export processing zones should strictly abide by the Reply of the General Office of the State Council on Experiment of the Establishment of the Export processing zones (No. 37 [2000] of the General Office of the State Council). The plan and construction should be carried out in the regions where the land plan has been finished, the infrastructure has been developed and the "seven opens and one smooth" has been realized. Repeated new construction shall not be carried out. New land and extended land shall not be explored. According to the relevant regulations of the Provisional Measures of PRC Customs' Supervision Over Export Processing Zones, the export processing zones can only be established within the current national-level economic technology development zones that have been approved by the State Council. All regions shall strictly observe such regulations.

III. The establishment of export processing zones shall be approved by the State Council. Blindly competing with others or rushing headlong into establishing the export processing zones shall be forbidden. Without the approval of the State Council, no other regions or department may approve the establishment of the export processing zones.

IV. The establishment of export processing zone institutions shall abide by the principle of "not setting up additional administrative institutions", rely on the original administration committee of the development zone as the administrative institutions, and not establish new administrative institutions.

V. After determining the geographic location (4 dimensions) and the area, the regions that will establish additional export processing zones shall report to the General Administration of Customs on the relevant conditions and working plans (brief map enclosed) as soon as possible. After the General Administration of Customs confirms them, the regions may begin to plan and construct according to the regulations of the Notice of General Administration of Customs on the Issuance of the Standard of Separation Facilities of Export Processing Zones and the Standard of the Facilities of Customs Supervision (No. 311 [2000]) and the Notice of the General Administration of Customs on the Issuance of the Requirement of Special Passage Establishment in the Blocks in the Export Processing Zones (No. 680 [2000] ) .

VI. Having finished the preparation for the additional export processing zones, the customs in charge directly under the General Administration of Customs located in the export processing zones shall pre-check and accept the export processing zones according to the relevant regulations of the Notice of the General Administration of Customs on the Issuance of the "Report and Approval of Export Processing Zones" (Experiment) and the Procedures for Check and Acceptance of Customs Supervision Separation Facilities" (No. 398 [2000]).

VII. The check and acceptance of export processing zones shall abide by the principle of "when one is mature, then check and accept one and start one". The regions that will establish additional export processing zones shall make various preparations according to the State Council's spirit and the above opinions, and the General Administration of Customs together with the relevant department will check and accept those that meet the conditions basically.

VIII. Kunshan export processing zone of Jiangsu and Songjiang export processing zone of Shanghai shall make preparations for the experiment of deep processing business transfer in the export processing zones. The experiment will officially start after the issuance of the "Provisional Administration Measures of PRC Customs on Deep Processing Business Transfer in Export Processing Zones". The customs shall supervise the work strictly by the relevant regulations.

IX. The customs in various export processing zones shall strictly adhere to the Provisional Measures of PRC Customs on the Supervision over Export Processing Zones amended by the General Administration of Customs, and shall supervise the tax-bonded goods such as models, semi-products that are delivered outside the zones for manufacturing.

Attachment: "Reply of the State Council Concerning the Export Processing Zones" (No. 64 [2002] of the General Office of the State Council) (omitted)