The List of Cross-border E-commerce Retail Import Goods (i.e., the positive list) specifies the types of goods that can be imported through cross-border e-commerce retail import channels. The current 2022 version contains 1,476 types of goods with 8-digit tax numbers. Only goods classified under these 1,476 tax numbers can enter the country through cross-border e-commerce channels. It should be noted that even if a product belongs to the tax number on the positive list, it may not be imported through e-commerce channels. Because, on the one hand, the goods on the positive list are a general term for a category of goods. In actual supervision, these goods may not comply with other entry regulations; on the other hand, some goods on the positive list have note restriction requirements, and the goods entering the country must also comply with the relevant requirements of the notes.
Regarding the requirements for the remarks of the positive list, there are roughly four types of control conditions:
The first is exclusion control, such as goods listed in the dual-use items list, or goods containing endangered animal and plant ingredients, which cannot be imported through e-commerce channels;
The second is trade mode control, some goods can only be imported through online shopping bonded methods, and cannot be imported through direct purchase channels, such as seafood;
The third is product name control, one tax number usually corresponds to multiple goods, and only a few specific goods can be imported, such as tax number 32151900 (other printing inks) is limited to household printer inks;
The fourth is weight control, only those below the specified weight can be imported, such as sugar is limited to less than 2 kilograms per person per year, and long-grain rice is limited to less than 20 kilograms per person per year.