AQSIQ Reminder from ISRI

Reminder: AQSIQ Renewal Applications Due September 30th
More than 3,000 licenses issued by AQSIQ to companies worldwide in 2004 are currently up for renewal and applications for renewal must be submitted by September 30th or the license will be lost upon expiration. It has been reported to ISRI that so far only 600 companies have submitted their renewal applications and of that group only 200 have so far been accepted. As ISRI has been reporting since June, it is absolutely critical that registered entities submit their renewal application between three and six months prior to the expiration of the original certificate or you will "automatically lose [your] eligibility for registration upon expiration of the term of their 'Registration Certificates.'" Copies of Notices 115-2003, 48-2004 and 103-2005 and other relevant documents are on the ISRI website at www.isri.org/trade/register/china (available to logged in ISRI members only). For password help, please visit www.isri.org/password.

According to the requirements under AQSIQ Notice No.115 (2005), renewal application can be filed electronically through AQSIQ's "Electronic Supervision System for lmported Scrap Materials"(http://scrap.eciq.cn). Written materials must be sent to AQSIQ within 15 days after the electronic application has been successfully filed. When filing the renewal application through the "electronic supervision system for imported scrap materials," the user name is the AQSIQ registration license number, the password is the AQSIQ license number followed by the last 4 characters of the registration application number (for the registration license before 2004) or the original password that the application has been using (for licenses after 2005).