The Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs recently issued an announcement to adjust the Catalogue of Prohibited Commodities in Processing Trade, to be implemented from December 1, 2020.
According to the announcement, 199 commodity codes in the 2014 catalogue, which are consistent with China's industrial development policies, are not products with heavy pollution and high energy consumption, and involve advanced technologies, will be removed from the catalogue; some products will be prohibited by different means. Other products on the catalogue will continue to be prohibited according to the previous announcement released in 2014.