Foreign-funded enterprises (including enterprises funded by overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan), representative offices of foreign enterprises and the preparatory office of Sino-foreign joint ventures shall register with Xiamen Customs Office before they engage in import and export.

Foreign-funded enterprises shall submit the following documents to obtain the Registration Certificate for Self-conducted Customs Clearance:

1. Application Form for Registration of Self-conducted Customs Clearance

2. The enterprise's registration form

3. Approval documents for the establishment of enterprise issued by the Foreign Investment Bureau;

4. Photocopy of the Approval Certificate issued by the Foreign Investment Bureau;

5. Photocopy of the duplicate copy of the Business License;

6. Photocopy of the duplicate copy of the State Taxation Registration Certificate;

7. Photocopy of the legal person code certificate;

8. For foreign-owned enterprise: photocopy of the Investment Application Form (the photocopy shall be sealed on the perforation by the approving authority); For joint ventures and cooperative businesses: photocopy of the contract (sealed on the perforation by the approving authority);

9. Photocopy of Articles of Association (sealed on the perforation by the approving authority);

10. Photocopy of the Feasibility Study Report (sealed on the perforation by the approving authority)

11. Photocopy of the Confirmation of the Enterprises Funded by Overseas Chinese and Compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in Xiamen issued by approving authority;

12. Materials concerning the financial and accounting system of the enterprise and bookkeeping related to import and export (including the general ledger and subsidiary ledgers of fix assets, sales and stock), and the names of the financial stuff (with personal seal). When there is any alteration in the above motioned materials, the enterprise shall inform the Customs within one month.

13. Certificate of Property Right and the red-line print. If the workshop is leased, the enterprise shall submit the lease contract and the Certificate of Property Rights and the red-line print of the lessor;

14. Photocopy of the application form to open a bank account and certificate of the deposit (RMB account and foreign exchange account)

15. Guarantee of the enterprise to pay relevant fees and taxes;

16. Fill out the Information Sheet for Enterprise Executives, the application form for a Customs clearance seal and the Name and Address Sheet for further contact

Note:
Enterprises should submit to the Customs one copy of each of the following financial statements for the previous year before each April 30. These statements will be examined annually:

1. The balance sheet

2. The profit and loss statement

3. Sales profits from imported goods (loss statement)

4. Sales profit from exported goods (loss statement)

Authority in charge: Xiamen Customs Office

Add: Customs Building, No.34, Haihou Lu, Xiamen

Tel: 2021793-2232 Fax: 2021793-2