REPLIES TO QUESTIONNAIRE ON IMPORT LICENSING PROCEDURES^[1]

Notification under Article 7.3
of the Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures (2018)

Macao, China

The following communication, dated 14 August 2018, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of Macao, China.

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Macao, China’s import licensing regime, as notified in document G/LIC/N/3/MAC/20, has not been modified and still remains valid for 2018, except for the changes introduced with regard to paragraphs 2.1 and 9 under Section 1.1 (Live Animals, Meat, Animal Products, Fish, Crustaceans and Molluscs, Vegetables, live plants and mushroom spawn) of Part 1 (Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau), paragraphs 1, 2, 5, 12 and 18 under Section 3.3 (Endangered Species of Animals and Plants) of Part 3 (Macao Economic Bureau) and paragraphs 2.1 and 3.2 under ANNEX A-I Importation procedures for Group I as follows:

1  civic and municipal affairs bureau

1.1  Live Animals, Meat, Animal Products, Fish, Crustaceans and Molluscs, Vegetables, Live Plants and Mushroom Spawn

Purpose and Coverage of Licensing

2.1 List of commodity sections and chapters of the Nomenclature for the External Trade of Macao/Harmonized System:

-       Live animals, Chapter 1.

-       Meat and edible offal (fresh, chilled, frozen or prepared), Chapter 2.

-       Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates, Chapter 3.

-       Dairy products, edible products of animal origin, Chapter 4.

-        Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked, animal products not elsewhere specified, Chapter 5.

-        Live trees and other plants, bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage, Chapter 6.

-        Edible vegetables, fruits, nuts and certain roots and tubers, Chapters 7 and 8.

-        Seeds, fruit and spores, of a kind used for sowing, Chapter 12.

-        Prepared edible animal fat, Chapter 15.

-        Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, Chapter 16.

-        Formula milk powder, Chapter 19.

-        Ice cream and other edible ice, Chapter 21.

-        Dog or cat food, put up for retail sale, Chapter 23.

-        Animal for circuses, Chapter 95.