General Administration Of Quality Supervision, Inspection And Quarantine Issued Guidance Document On Promoting Cross-Border E-Commerce Development

In order to implement the spirit of the State Council's Opinions on Vigorously Developing E-commerce and Accelerating the Cultivation of New Economic Power (GF [2015] No. 24), the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine recently issued the Opinions on Further Exerting the Function of Inspection and Quarantine to Promote the Development of Cross border E-commerce. All local inspection and quarantine bureaus are required to actively build working systems and mechanisms in line with the development of cross-border e-commerce and promote the healthy and rapid development of cross-border e-commerce.

E-commerce is an important part of national economy and social informatization. Accelerating the development of e-commerce, especially cross-border e-commerce, is of great significance for promoting the transformation and upgrading of foreign trade, improving international competitiveness, accelerating the emergence of emerging industries, stimulating economic development vitality, and promoting mass entrepreneurship and innovation.

The Opinions pointed out that the inspection and quarantine work system and mechanism should be built in line with the development of cross-border e-commerce, comply with the new trend and requirements of the healthy and rapid development of cross-border e-commerce, and reform, innovate, and take the initiative in accordance with the principle of combining accelerated development with improved management, effective supervision and facilitating access, Efforts should be made to solve the problems that the current inspection and quarantine supervision system does not adapt to and coordinate with the development of cross-border e-commerce, and speed up the establishment of inspection and quarantine work systems and mechanisms that meet the requirements of cross-border e-commerce development.

We should vigorously support the development of China (Hangzhou) Cross border E-commerce Comprehensive Experimental Zone, further delegate approval authority and review authority to the inspection and quarantine institutions in the pilot zone, encourage the first to try, increase institutional innovation, management innovation and service innovation, and create replicable and promotable experience as soon as possible.

Strengthen the risk assessment of cross-border e-commerce commodities, formulate the supervision list of key commodities and projects, and constantly establish and improve the quality risk information collection mechanism, risk assessment and analysis mechanism, and risk early warning and disposal mechanism. In particular, for projects involving personal safety, health and environmental protection, risk monitoring and early warning should be strengthened through on-site inspection, sampling testing and supervision. For those failing to meet the quality and safety requirements, take measures such as risk notification, sales suspension, mandatory recall, return and destruction to ensure quality and safety.

The Opinions also proposed to build cross-border e-commerce Quality traceability system. Make full use of information technology to establish an e-commerce product quality traceability system based on the organization code and commodity barcode, and realize the "traceability of origin and destination" of cross-border e-commerce products by pasting anti-counterfeiting traceability marks, two-dimensional codes, barcodes and other means.

Strengthen cooperation with the quality supervision department, explore the establishment of "risk monitoring Online spot check The quality monitoring mechanism of "source tracing and local investigation" will organize the investigation of quality and safety accidents or complaints in a timely manner to achieve traceability of quality and safety and accountability.

The Opinions pointed out that innovation in cross-border e-commerce inspection and quarantine Regulatory model It stipulates that cross-border e-commerce commodities shall be subject to full declaration management. The consignee or consignor or their agents declare commodity information, order information, payment information, logistics information, consignee or consignor information, etc. to the inspection and quarantine institution through the cross-border e-commerce public information platform established by the local government, review and release low-risk commodities, and gradually release high-risk commodities based on third-party testing results. It is required to implement centralized declaration and release procedures for outbound cross-border electronic commodities. We will continue to improve the quality and safety supervision and spot check mechanism based on risk analysis, which focuses on quarantine supervision. Increase the credibility of third-party inspection and identification results, supervise qualified third-party inspection institutions to implement inspection and detection, and conduct product quality and safety conformity assessment. It provides for centralized declaration, verification and release of inbound cross-border e-commerce commodities. For those who enter the country by international express or mail, the consignee is an individual, and the purpose is for their own use, they shall be managed in accordance with the relevant inspection and quarantine regulations for express mail and postal materials. For bulk entry, centralized storage and e-commerce enterprises selling to domestic individual consumers according to orders, quality and safety supervision based on risk analysis shall be carried out, and monitoring shall be carried out according to the safety and health items of corresponding national product standards.