FAQ

● The procedure to exhibiting at SIWSF 2009:
Please click HERE for the details.

● About the lunch food:
There are restaurants and café lounge in the Oriental Riverside Hotel that in the same building with the exhibition hall, outside the building, there is a contracted snacks restaurant.

● The function area:
There is the café lounge, meeting room, pressroom free for the exhibitors’ temporary needs.

● The import tax and relative duties on major alcoholic beverage at China mainland customs:

Commodities Code	Commodities	Import Tax	Value Added Tax	Consumption Tax
2203000000	Beers	0	17%	0
2204100000	Sparkling Wines	14%	17%	10%
2204210000	Still Wines (in package not over 2 liters)	14%	17%	10%
2204290000	Still Wines (in package over 2 liters)	20%	17%	10%
2208200000 -2208700000	Spirits	10%	17%	20%

● The Back Chinese Label:
According to the regulations by China Governments, all the imported wines selling in the Chinese mainland must be sticker well with the Chinese Back Labels. There are two choices for the back label sticking procedure:

1. 1. the importer applying the Chinese back label and obtain the approval, the back labels sticker well before the wines for shipping to China mainland ports.
   
   
2. 2. the importer applying the Chinese back label and obtain the approval, the back labels sticker well at the Chinese ports before selling into the markets.

As there are some imported wines without Chinese back labels may ship to some Chinese Free Trade Zone (but it is variety for the free trade zones in China, before your shipment you need to confirm with your importer), and stored there for the next steps of labels sticking later but before move into the mainland . Moreover, in this way, the wines may trans-shipping to other countries with the original labels.