Waytron has a long-term and stable relationship with many carriers. With our strong strength, professional team, scientific system and sound network, Waytron can provide our customers with one-stop global logistics services, which are now can be involved in many countries such as USA, Canada, Europe, Australia and southeast Asia, and so on. Waytron can handle FCL, LCL, and special shipments, also providing reliable SOC service and competitive rates for TP trades, especially to USA and Canada inland locations, such as Dallas, El Paso, Portland, Houston, Calgary and Winnipeg.
Waytron Overseas Department is in charge of working with the overseas agents, including D/O, Customs Clearance, Door Delivery and Transshipment to ensure the high-quality services.
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The Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau is a vital law enforcement agency established by the state, playing a key role in safeguarding national economic security, protecting consumer rights, and promoting international trade. The following detailed introduction covers the agency's definition, core functions, historical evolution, and international comparisons, supplemented by a table for clarity.
The Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau is an administrative law enforcement agency responsible for entry-exit health quarantine, animal and plant quarantine, commodity inspection, appraisal, certification, and supervision. Its history can be traced back to the port quarantine agencies in the late 19th century. During the 2018 institutional reform, the entry-exit inspection and quarantine management functions and personnel of the former General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine were merged into the General Administration of Customs, forming a new management system of "Customs + Inspection and Quarantine". It now carries out related work in the name of Customs, but its core functions still cover the traditional inspection and quarantine scope.
Port Health Supervision: Implement health quarantine for entry-exit personnel, means of transport, containers, etc., to prevent the cross-border spread of infectious diseases (such as COVID-19, malaria). For example, conducting temperature checks and health declaration reviews for incoming passengers at international airports.
Health Treatment: Disinfecting, deworming, and other health treatments for infected or suspected infected items and places to prevent the spread of epidemics.
Quarantine Approval and Access: Implement quarantine approval for imported animals, plants, and their products (such as meat, seedlings) to ensure compliance with national biosecurity requirements. For example, conducting mad cow disease risk assessments for imported Australian beef.
On-site Quarantine and Isolation: Carry out on-site inspection of entry-exit animals and plants at ports, and implement isolated supervision for seedlings and others requiring quarantine.
Legal Inspection: Mandatory inspection of commodities listed in the Catalogue of Import and Export Commodities Subject to Inspection and Quarantine by Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Institutions, such as safety performance testing of imported vehicles.
Supervisory Sampling: Implement sampling inspection for commodities other than legal inspection, crack down on counterfeit and shoddy products, and maintain market order.
Quality Certification: Carry out import and export commodity quality certification (such as CCC certification), enterprise registration (such as export food production enterprise filing), etc.
Traceability Management: Implement traceability management for import and export commodities, such as implementing "source traceable" supervision for imported infant milk powder.
| Function Type | Specific Work Content | Typical Case | Legal Basis |
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| Health Quarantine | Health declaration of entry-exit personnel, infectious disease monitoring, port health supervision | Nucleic acid testing for passengers of incoming flights during the COVID-19 pandemic | Law of the People's Republic of China on Frontier Health and Quarantine |
| Animal and Plant Quarantine | Imported animal and plant approval, on-site quarantine, pest control | Quarantine of weeds in imported Brazilian soybeans to prevent the invasion of alien species | Law of the People's Republic of China on the Entry and Exit Animal and Plant Quarantine |
| Commodity Inspection | Mandatory inspection of legal commodities, commodity quality supervision and sampling | Heavy metal content testing of exported toys to ensure compliance with EU safety standards | Law of the People's Republic of China on Import and Export Commodity Inspection |
| Certification and Supervision | Enterprise qualification certification, commodity traceability management, registration of overseas production enterprises | Implementing HACCP system certification for export food enterprises to ensure food safety | Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Certification and Accreditation |
| Risk Early Warning | Collect domestic and foreign safety risk information, issue early warning notices, and take emergency measures | Immediately suspending the import of related poultry products after an avian influenza outbreak in a certain country | Regulations on Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Risk Early Warning and Rapid Response Management |
Before the 2018 institutional reform, the Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau was under the State General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, independently exercising the functions of "three inspections" (commodity inspection, animal and plant inspection, and health inspection). After the reform, the inspection and quarantine functions were merged into Customs, forming a customs clearance mode of "one inspection, one release". For example, enterprises can complete customs declaration and inspection procedures in a single window, reducing customs clearance time by more than 40%.
| Country/Region | Corresponding Agency | Functional Characteristics |
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| United States | Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) | Divided into detailed functions, with FDA responsible for food and drug safety and APHIS focusing on animal and plant quarantine, with strict law enforcement and high technical standards |
| European Union | Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety of the European Commission | Uniformly formulating regional standards, focusing on the whole-process risk prevention and control, such as implementing "from farm to table" whole-process supervision for imported food |
| Japan | Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries | Implementing the "official inspection + private detection" model, and implementing a positive list system for imported agricultural products with strict pesticide residue standards |
Compliance Threshold: Enterprises' export commodities need to meet the inspection and quarantine standards of the importing country. For example, textiles exported to the EU need to pass REACH regulations testing, otherwise facing the risk of return.
Customs Clearance Efficiency: Optimization of inspection and quarantine processes (such as "customs clearance first, inspection later") can shorten the goods detention time at the port and reduce enterprise logistics costs.
Trade Barriers: Some countries set technical trade barriers in the name of inspection and quarantine. For example, a certain country implements additional microbial testing for Chinese seafood, affecting export efficiency.
