The Agreement between the Government of Mongolia and the Government of the PRC on Cooperation and Mutual Assistance in Customs Matters was signed on 7 September 1993 in Ulaanbaatar
The Protocol between the Customs General Administration of Mongolia and the General Customs Administration of the PRC on Exchange of Information was signed on 1 June 2010 in Ulaanbaatar in Mongolian, Chinese and English. It provides for electronic exchange of foreign trade statistical data according to agreed formats using either Microsoft Access (*.mdb.) or MS Excel. It also provides for exchange of information related to Customs control and examination, in particular, information on border traffics, imported and exported goods, Customs offence and crimes, measures on joint Customs control and claims.
-Besides the range of bilateral working meetings at Customs higher level, the Working Party on the Mongolia-China Joint Border Control has been meeting 9 times, to be precise, it met as following:
- the 1st Meeting – in April 2006;
- the 2nd Meeting – on 2 July 2007 in Ulaanbaatar;
- the 3rd Meeting – on 11-12 November 2009 in Beijing;
- the 4th Meeting – from 30 May to 1 June 2011 in Ulaanbaatar;
- the 5th Meeting – on 22-24 May 2012 in Erlian (Erenhot, China);
- the 6th Meeting – on 12-16 November 2013 in Ulaanbaatar;
- the 7th Meeting – on 19-22 July 2015 in Beijing;
- the 8th Meeting – on 6-7 September 2017 in Ulaanbaatar;
- the 9th Meeting – on 24-26 October 2018 in Tianjin (China);
- the 10th Meeting – to be held in June or July 2019 in Ulaanbaatar.
Starting from the first meeting, the Parties agreed to start experimental Customs Joint Control with the ADB technical assistance and later continue the project. At the 7th Meeting, the Parties unanimously agreed to develop a project for mutual recognition of results of Customs control (examination) as a second stage of the Customs Joint Control.
Concurrently, at the first meeting, Mongolian Party proposed to align Cargo Manifests. Soon, the Parties agreed to align the Cargo Manifests for road transportation and later agreed to develop and use the Joint Cargo Manifest Form (in two languages: Mongolian and Chinese). At the end, the Parties also agreed (at the 5th meeting) to exchange electronic manifest data.
The data elements to be exchanged electronically and formats are agreed at the 8th meeting and updated at the 9th meeting (Please see the Attachment). At the 8th meeting the Parties also agreed on the border crossing points for the electronic manifest data exchange (Please see the Attachment) and the informal experimental exchange of electronic manifest data is started between Zamyn-Uud and Erlian border crossing points.
At the 9th meeting the list of the border crossing points for the electronic manifest data exchange is reaffirmed and the Parties agreed to start the official experimental exchange of electronic manifest data between Zamyn-Uud and Erlian border crossing points from 1 December 2018 and between other border crossing points in the list since 1 January 2019. The Parties agreed at the 9th meeting that they abolish the paper-based manifest and use the paperless manifest at the listed border crossing points since 1 April 2019.
The Agreement between the Government of Mongolia and the Government of the PRC on Cooperation and Mutual Assistance in Customs Matters was signed on 7 September 1993 in Ulaanbaatar
The Protocol between the Customs General Administration of Mongolia and the General Customs Administration of the PRC on Exchange of Information was signed on 1 June 2010 in Ulaanbaatar in Mongolian, Chinese and English. It provides for electronic exchange of foreign trade statistical data according to agreed formats using either Microsoft Access (*.mdb.) or MS Excel. It also provides for exchange of information related to Customs control and examination, in particular, information on border traffics, imported and exported goods, Customs offence and crimes, measures on joint Customs control and claims.
-Besides the range of bilateral working meetings at Customs higher level, the Working Party on the Mongolia-China Joint Border Control has been meeting 9 times, to be precise, it met as following:
- the 1st Meeting – in April 2006;
- the 2nd Meeting – on 2 July 2007 in Ulaanbaatar;
- the 3rd Meeting – on 11-12 November 2009 in Beijing;
- the 4th Meeting – from 30 May to 1 June 2011 in Ulaanbaatar;
- the 5th Meeting – on 22-24 May 2012 in Erlian (Erenhot, China);
- the 6th Meeting – on 12-16 November 2013 in Ulaanbaatar;
- the 7th Meeting – on 19-22 July 2015 in Beijing;
- the 8th Meeting – on 6-7 September 2017 in Ulaanbaatar;
- the 9th Meeting – on 24-26 October 2018 in Tianjin (China);
- the 10th Meeting – to be held in June or July 2019 in Ulaanbaatar.
Starting from the first meeting, the Parties agreed to start experimental Customs Joint Control with the ADB technical assistance and later continue the project. At the 7th Meeting, the Parties unanimously agreed to develop a project for mutual recognition of results of Customs control (examination) as a second stage of the Customs Joint Control.
Concurrently, at the first meeting, Mongolian Party proposed to align Cargo Manifests. Soon, the Parties agreed to align the Cargo Manifests for road transportation and later agreed to develop and use the Joint Cargo Manifest Form (in two languages: Mongolian and Chinese). At the end, the Parties also agreed (at the 5th meeting) to exchange electronic manifest data.
The data elements to be exchanged electronically and formats are agreed at the 8th meeting and updated at the 9th meeting (Please see the Attachment). At the 8th meeting the Parties also agreed on the border crossing points for the electronic manifest data exchange (Please see the Attachment) and the informal experimental exchange of electronic manifest data is started between Zamyn-Uud and Erlian border crossing points.
At the 9th meeting the list of the border crossing points for the electronic manifest data exchange is reaffirmed and the Parties agreed to start the official experimental exchange of electronic manifest data between Zamyn-Uud and Erlian border crossing points from 1 December 2018 and between other border crossing points in the list since 1 January 2019. The Parties agreed at the 9th meeting that they abolish the paper-based manifest and use the paperless manifest at the listed border crossing points since 1 April 2019.