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subject to import licence control, prior application for an

import licence is necessary. Afterwards, the company which

licence and

has been approved by the state to deal with the commodities

in question will place its orders with outside companies.

The customs will then check the goods against the import

release them accordingly. In the absence of

the right to deal with imported goods and where. special

circumstances require purchase from outside China of small

amounts of necessities for urgent use, relevant units will

need to obtain approval from the MOFERT or provincial

offices of the MOFERT and get an import licence before they

can purchase goods from outside. As regards goods not

subject to import licence control, external trade companies

need not apply

apply for a licence if the goods in question are

within their scope of business. Otherwise, application for

not have

the right to deal with

a licence would be necessary. Those units which need to

import goods but do

imported goods must

such right to do so.

business directly.

commission

those units which possess

They cannot handle external import

The types of commodities subject to management by

import licence control are centrally published and adjusted

by the MOFERT.

The catalogue of commodities after

adjustment and their licence-issuing departments are also

published.

January 1988, there are 53 commodities

Since January

subject to our country's import licence control. These

be broadly divided into three categories.

commodities

can