. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/CHN/109 
15 May 2008  
 (08-2253) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  CHINA
  
If applicable, name of local government involved:     
2. Agency responsible:  General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and 
Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ) 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item numb er(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where applicable):  Feed and feed additives 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable :  
Countries or regions exporting feed and feed additives to th e People's Republic of China 
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:  The administrative 
measure for inspection, quaran tine and supervision on import and export of feed and feed 
additives (draft) (available in Chinese, 21 pages) 
6. Description of content:  The purpose of this administrative measure is to wholly intensify the 
supervision on the safety of feed for import and export based on risk management.  Owing to 
the safety of import products mainly depend on the control by the ente rprises and competent 
authorities of the exportin g countries or regions, it will es tablish a risk analysis system to 
conduct risk analysis for the feed and feed additiv es to be imported for the first time and also 
to review the traditional trade.  In order to improve the traceability system, the overseas 
manufacturers and domestic en terprises which manufacture, process or store products for 
export are requested to be regi stered, and Chinese importers a nd exporters are also requested 
to be registered and to establish business record s;  It will, through risk analysis, establish an 
export safety supervision system for the feed and feed additives whic h is based on the own 
test and control by the manufacturers, and take s the official monitoring program as the main 
approach and the risk targeted random inspection before export as the as sistant approach.  It 
will improve transparency of the managements to satisfy the demands of the domestic and 
foreign traders;  It will enhance the pertinence and effectiveness of inspection and quarantine 
work by allocating limited res ources of inspection and quarantin e mainly to the supervision 
and management of the enterprises and products w ith high risks.  It will  facilitate trade while 
ensuring the safety of feed and feed additives  by classifying manufacturers and simplifying 
the inspection procedures at the port for the manufacturers who have a good reputation, stable 
quality and whose products have not been tested with negative results for years.  
7. Objective and rationale:  [ X ] food safety, [ X ] animal health,  [ X ] plant protection, 
[ X ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease,  [   ] protect territory from other damage from pests    G/SPS/N/CHN/109 
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  8. International standard, guideline or recommendation:  
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] World Organization for Animal Health 
(OIE), [   ] International Plant Protection Convention, [ X ] None  
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate 
reference and briefly identify deviations:    
9. Relevant documents and langu age(s) in which these are available:    
10. Proposed date of adoption:  To be decided. 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  6 months after adoption 
12. Final date for comments:  60 days after circulation by the WTO Secretariat 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [   ] National notification 
authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, or  address, fax number and E-mail address (if 
available) of other body: 
13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notifica tion authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body: