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I. Overview of China Customs China Customs is a government agency that supervises and manages all arrivals in and departures from the Customs territory of the mainland of the Peoples Republic of China. It exercises a centralized management structure. The mission of China Customs is to guard the national gateway and provide services. Its essential tasks are Customs control, revenue collection, fighting smuggling and foreign trade statistics compilation. Its specific responsibilities include revenue collection, fighting smuggling, Customs control, supervision and management of bond operations for processing trade, foreign trade statistics compilation, audit-based control and risk management, and port management. The General Administration of Customs is the headquarters of China Customs. It is a full-ministerial-level government agency that directly reports to the State Council of the People’s Republic of China and manages all the Customs regions nationwide. The Customs regions report to the General Administration of Customs instead of to local governments. It is composed of 16 departments and 6 directly subordinated service or coordinating functions, manages 4 associations (i.e. Customs Institute of China, Customs Brokers Association of China, Port Society of China, and Association of Bonded Areas and Export Processing Zones of China), and has posted representative offices in the European Union, the Russian Federation, and the United States of America. The CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Ministry of Supervision stationed the Discipline Inspection Office and the Discipline Inspection Bureau respectively in the General Administration of Customs. China Customs has a total of 46 Customs regions or organizations of the same level (i.e.Guangdong Sub-Administration of Customs that is in charge of the 7 Customs regions located in Guangdong Province, 2 Supervising Offices that are located in Tianjin and Shanghai respectively, 41 Customs regions an