What are "general goods," "sensitive goods," and "prohibited goods"?
General goods: General goods are goods that do not contain sensitive or prohibited items.
Sensitive goods: The definition of sensitive goods is rather complex, but generally speaking, they are goods that fall between general goods and prohibited items. For example:
1. Battery-related goods. These can affect magnetic fields and electrical signals to some extent, interfering with aviation safety. They are restricted items for air transport, but not prohibited items. They can be transported, but special procedures are required.
2. Items containing liquids, pastes, or powders. These items are extremely prone to vaporization and other chemical reactions during air transport. Containers at sea, exposed to direct sunlight, can also cause these liquid, paste, or powder-containing items to heat up and potentially explode. Therefore, these products are considered restricted items for transport.
3. Brand-name and luxury goods. These items are often involved in legal disputes such as infringement. Items with "made in xx country" as the country of origin, as well as counterfeit brand-name goods, are all considered legally infringing items.
4. Magnetic items. Magnetic items can easily generate electromagnetic waves during high-speed flight, or their magnetic fields can interfere with aviation magnetic field signals, making them restricted items for air transport.
5. Various types of food and medicine. These items involve biological invasion and require quarantine certificates for international transport; without such certificates, they are considered sensitive goods.
6. Gold, silver, and valuable works of art. Valuable items are prone to theft, robbery, and other crimes.
Contraband: These are items that are explicitly prohibited from being transported by my country and many other international organizations. Any activity involving such items is illegal. For example:
1. Various hazardous materials that are explosive, flammable, corrosive, toxic, strongly acidic or alkaline, or radioactive. Such as firearms and ammunition, gunpowder, firecrackers, gasoline, alcohol, kerosene, tung oil, raw lacquer, matches, pesticides, etc., as well as all chemical products listed in the "Practical Handbook of Hazardous Chemicals" published by Chemical Industry Press.
2. Perishable items. Various live animals (such as fresh fish, fresh meat, etc.).
3. Items that endanger public health. Such as human remains (including cremated remains), untanned animal hides, and untreated animal bones.
5. Reactionary newspapers, books, windows, or obscene materials, etc.
6. Items listed in the "List of Hazardous Chemicals", "List of Civil Explosives", "List of Easily Explosive Hazardous Chemicals", "Classification and Variety List of Easily Precursor Chemicals", "List of Items Prohibited from Import and Export of the People's Republic of China", and Class I and II pathogenic microorganisms listed in the "List of Human Infectious Pathogenic Microorganisms", as well as other items prohibited from being mailed by laws, administrative regulations, and regulations of the State Council and relevant departments of the State Council.
Date: February 26, 2023