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Application for Self-Support Import & Export Rights and Alteration of Enterprise Name


Pursuant to the Circular of the Ministry of Commerce, concerning the Rules for the Administration of Companies Qualified to Conduct Import and Export, WaiJingMaoMaoFa [2001] No.370, with a view to accelerating the reform of system of foreign trade operations and promoting as well as standardizing various enterprises to engage in import and export business as well as in light of actual conditions in our province items such as application filed by enterprises for operational qualification of self-support import and export as well as alteration of their names to be accomplished online are now announced as follows:

Qualifications for Enterprises to Apply for Self-Support Import and Export Rights:

1. An enterprise shall possess the status of a legal person or shall be the sole proprietorship enterprise or a partnership enterprise (hereinafter referred to collectively as an "enterprise") incorporated in accordance with the laws, which shall obtain the Business License of Enterprise Legal Person or Business License after registering with the administrative departments for industry and commerce.
2. The registered capital of an enterprise shall not be less than RMB 3,000,000 Yuan (RMB 1,000,000 Yuan for productive enterprises of electromechanical products, scientific research institutions and High-tech enterprises).
3. The enterprise has handled tax registration and paid taxes in accordance with all laws.
4. The legal representative or person in charge of the aforesaid enterprise has not held the same posts at any other enterprises whose foreign trade operation permit has been revoked in the last 3 years (it means that during his terms of such posts, the foreign trade operation permit of the said enterprises has been withdrawn due to the violation of laws and regulations by such enterprises).

Materials Required to be Submitted for Enterprises’ Application for Self-Support Import and Export Rights:

1. An enterprise files a written application and indicates that: "the legal representative or person in charge of such enterprise has not in the last 3 years held the same posts of any other enterprises whose foreign trade operation permit has been revoked." (Opinions indicated by each municipal bureau of foreign trade & economic cooperation for enterprises at a local and municipal level and no opinions indicated by the said bureau for an organization directly under the provincial government. As below are the same).
2. One copy of the Registration Form of Import and Export Enterprise Code of the People's Republic of China shall be completed with official seals of the relevant enterprises and the municipal bureau of foreign trade & economic cooperation where such enterprises reside.
3. A duplicate copy of the counterparts of the annually inspected Business License of Enterprise Legal Person or Business License with a seal of the administration authority for industry and commerce certifying that "this document is in accord with the original".
4. Duplicate copies of tax registration certificate issued by the state tax and local tax bureaus that have gone through the verification on a year basis.
5. Duplicate copies of the National Organization Code Certificate.
6. Duplicate copies of identification card of the legal representative registered in the Business License of Enterprise Legal Person or the person in charge registered in the Business License.
7. A sole proprietorship enterprise and a partnership enterprise shall submit capital verification reports that are issued by an accounting firm, an audit firm or other institutions qualified to verify capital (original copy or duplicate copies with a seal of an institution of capital verification).
8. A High-tech enterprise and a productive enterprise of electromechanical products shall submit duplicate copies of certificate issued by competent authorities of science and technology or pertinent authorities.
9. Other materials required by registration authorities.

Our department shall, within 10 working days from the receipt of completed materials of application presented by an enterprise, make decisions on granting or denying the registration, and directly issue an Import & Export Enterprise Qualification Certificate of the People’s Republic of China to the enterprise that has obtained such registration.

How to handle the alteration of an enterprise’s name?

1. An enterprise shall firstly go through the procedures of altering its name at the bureau of Industry and Commerce, and then it should submit the original notice of the alteration and approval of its enterprise's new name as issued by the bureau of Industry and Commerce with an indication of "Enterprise's name before and after alteration".
2. Filling in the Application for the Alteration of Names of Import and Export Enterprises.
3. With original and duplicate copies of Import & Export Enterprise Qualification Certificate of The People's Republic of China, alteration of enterprise name shall be carried out at our department on the condition that the aforementioned full materials are collected.

How to deal with the alteration of registered capital, legal representative and the address of an enterprise?

An enterprise that is required to deal with the alteration of the said contents shall 1. File its application which shall be indicated with opinions of local bureau of foreign trade & economic cooperation and sealed by the said bureau. 2. Provide duplicate copies of industrial and commercial business license as having been modified in light of regulations (with a seal of the administration authority for industry and commerce certifying that "this document is accord with the original").
Appendix 1: Registration Form of Import and Export Enterprise Code of the People's Republic of China [Download Doc Document, 33.5 kb]
2: Application for the Alteration of Names of Import and Export Enterprises [Download Doc Document, 24.0kb]

Contact Us:

Add: Foreign Trade Development Division of the Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of Guangdong Province, Provincial Foreign Trade and Economic Building, 351 Tianhe Road, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province.
Tel: 38819892
E-mail: fazhan@gddoftec.gov.cn

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