Interpretation of Announcement No. 116 of 2025 of the General Administration of Customs

Recently, the General Administration of Customs issued Announcement No. 116 of 2025 (Announcement on the Declaration and Completion Specifications for Four Categories of Controlled Goods in Customs Special Supervision Zones, Bonded Supervision Sites, and Processing Trade Outside These Zones), adjusting the declaration and completion requirements for documents such as processing trade manuals (ledgers) and bonded nuclear annotation lists for four categories of controlled goods.


AmCham China Tax Committee and Legal Committee are pleased to invite you to join the Interpretation of Announcement No. 116 of 2025 of the General Administration of Customs, and will compare the NO. 58, NO. 83, we welcome you to bring your questions and have deep discussion with our experts.


Event Details:

  • Event format: Hybrid
  • Time & Date: 3pm - 5pm, July 14, Monday (registration starts from 3pm-3:30pm)
  • Venue: AmCham
  • Language: English and Chinese
  • Contact: Ada Yang, ayang@amchamchina.org


Notes:

  • Registration is required and the event link will be provided to verified registrants one day before the event.
  • Please note that registration closes at 5:00 PM Beijing Time on July 13.

Agenda

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Registration and Opening Remarks
3:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Keynote
4:10 PM - 5:00 PM
Free Discussion and Q&A

Speakers

  • Zhaoqi CEN (Partner at Zhonglun Law Firm)

    Zhaoqi CEN

    Partner at Zhonglun Law Firm

    Mr. Cen’s practice focuses on antitrust/anti-unfair competition, customs and trade compliance, intellectual property, and dispute resolution. Mr. Cen has rich theoretical and practical experiences in antitrust law and has provided clients with comprehensive legal solutions and opinions with regard to antitrust investigation, litigation, concentration of undertakings, and antitrust compliance. The industries involved include internet, energy, IT, telecommunications, medicine, automobiles, etc.

    Mr. Cen has kept track of the legislative dynamics and enforcement trends of antitrust law, and has produced many academic achievements and publications including Report on Competition Law and Policy of China (co-editor, 2010-2022), The Intellectual Property and Antitrust Review: Chapter for China (2016-2022), and the ICC Compendium of Antitrust Damages Actions (member of the drafting group)

    Social Activities:
    Researcher, UIBE Competition Law Centre
    Arbitrator, China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC)
    Member, International Chamber of Commerce Task Force on Court Proceedings in Antitrust Damages Claims
    Deputy Secretary-General, Professional Committee of Competition Policy and Law of the China Society for WTO Studies (CWTO)

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  • Zheng Mu (Indirect Tax Service Leader,  North China Director  Beijing|Customs and International Trade of Deloitte)

    Zheng Mu

    Indirect Tax Service Leader, North China Director Beijing|Customs and International Trade of Deloitte

    Ms. Mu Zheng, currently the Indirect Tax Service Leader of Deloitte Consulting (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. in North China, and the Director of Customs and Global Trade Service Group of Beijing Branch. She used to work in the audit department of a Big Four accounting firms, providing audit services for large state-owned enterprises and multinational enterprises for multiple years;
    Ms. Mu has been in the Customs service team for nearly 12 years, focusing on the research and application of Customs policies and regulations on enterprise compliance management, providing clients with Customs valuation, Customs classification, processing trade, AEO certification, tax policy research, application for exclusion of commodities from counter tariffs in the US-China trade war, export control, construction of an internal control system for anti-circumvention supply chain management, construction of internal control for supply chain related to the traceability supply chains related to Xinjiang, analysis of the country of origin, construction policy interpretation and implementation of a factory in Mexico, and daily consultation for global Customs affairs of enterprises going abroad.

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  • Shu Tian (Vice President at Branch of Free Trade Ports of China Association of port-of-entry)

    Shu Tian

    Vice President at Branch of Free Trade Ports of China Association of port-of-entry

    Mr. Tian has held positions in the Tariff Department, the Director's Office of the General Administration of Customs, and the China E-Port Data Center. He later transitioned into the professional consulting industry, serving as a line of business leader and partner at "Big Four" accounting firms such as Ernst & Young and Deloitte, where he was responsible for customs and international trade consulting. He has led teams to successfully complete government consulting projects such as cross-border e-commerce policy consulting, business environment assessments, upgrades to the standard version of the single window system, the construction of the national port evaluation system for the 14th Five-Year Plan, and evaluations of free trade zone development in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Yunnan, and other regions. He has also served dozens of domestic and international Fortune 500 companies, assisting them in completing consulting services such as tax policy research, export control, cross-border trade risk management for enterprises, and impact assessments of tariffs imposed by China and the United States.

    Mr. Tian possesses extensive research experience and unique insights in the fields of international economic and trade rules and free trade zones. He assists corporate clients in leveraging international economic and trade rules to strategically position themselves within the global industrial chain. Additionally, he provides consulting services on international economic and trade rules, comprehensive bonded zones, and free trade zones to national and local governments, leveraging policy advantages to attract projects and industries to these areas.

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Tickets

AmCham China-Member
Standard Price RMB 150
AmCham China-Non-Member
Standard Price RMB 450