01.Corporate filing and labelling

Consignee and consignor record and label record before arrival at port

Duration: 4-7 days.

02.Overseas supplier shipments

Agreements with foreign suppliers, deposits paid in advance, shipments arranged abroad

Duration: Shipping time varies from region to region (Europe, Africa, North and South America: about 30-40 days by sea, South-East Asia: about 8-15 days).

03.Declare at customs and inspections

The goods arrive at the destination port, prepare the documents for customs clearance and inspection.

Duration: 1-2 working days.

04.Pay tax and verify tax

After customs declaration, customs will issue the tax bill, pay the tax and verify the tax, check the goods, and release the goods.

Duration: 3-5 working days.

05.Supervised warehouse labelling and sampling

Customs release to the supervisory warehouse, affix Chinese labels, commodity inspection of goods, commodity inspection sampling and testing (labelling can be exempted after import).

Duration: 15-20 working days.

06.Commodity Inspection and Delivery

Sampling for commodity inspection is completed, after labelling is completed, the commodity inspection release notice can be arranged for delivery.

Delivery time: 1-2 days.

07.Obtain a health certificate

After passing the commodity inspection test, you will receive the health certificate, which is also known as the certificate of inspection and quarantine of incoming goods.

Duration: About 14 working days after sampling, can be expedited in special cases.

III. Food import information required documents

1. Information from foreign suppliers

1) Packing list

2) Invoice

3) Contract

4) Bill Of Lading

5) Healthy Certicate

6) Analysis Report(Domestic Chinese translations are available)

7) Certificate Of Origin(Domestic Chinese translations are available)

8) Table(Domestic Chinese translations are available)

9) Packing IPPC(Wooden packaging is available)

10) Free Sale For Exportation   

11) Boltting Date

2. Information from domestic consignees

1) Business licence business scope has prepackaged food

2) Food Business License

3) Automatic Import License (required for certain products, such as olive oil and dairy products)

IV. Common Issues in Food Import

1. What qualifications are required for food importers?

2. What is the process for customs declaration of prepackaged food imports?

3. Do imported foods need to have Chinese labels? What are the labeling requirements?

V. Solutions provided by Cstar

1. We can provide trade agency qualifications for importers and offer one-stop assistance to address import qualification limitations.

2. We can assist with the most important pre-packaged food labelling, licensing and inspection reports prior to importation.

3. Food labelling if there is a national standard standard, we can act on behalf of the label design and audit, to reduce the risk of corporate labelling rectification or withholding of goods.