The General Administration of Customs issued Announcement No. 26 of 2016, which stipulates the relevant regulatory policies for cross-border e-commerce retail import and export commodities.

(i) E-commerce enterprises and individuals that realize retail import and export commodity transactions through e-commerce trading platforms and transmit relevant transaction electronic data according to customs requirements shall be subject to customs supervision in accordance with this announcement.

(ii) Enterprises participating in cross-border e-commerce business shall submit the following materials to the local customs in advance:

1. Copy of the business license of the corporate legal person;

2. Copy of the organization code certificate (enterprises registered with a unified social credit code do not need to provide);

3. Enterprise registration form, including the enterprise organization code or unified social credit code, Chinese name, business registration address, business license registration number, legal representative (person in charge), identity document type, identity document number, customs contact person, mobile phone, landline, cross-border e-commerce website address, etc.

If the enterprise submits a copy in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, it shall also submit the original to the customs for inspection.

If you need to handle customs declaration business, you should register in accordance with the customs’ relevant regulations on the registration and management of customs declaration units.