China International Export Sales Trade Association - doubts

    In April, the China Council for the promotion of international trade(CCPIT) issued a notice on the certification requirements of medical anti epidemic materials documents. According to the provisions of CCPIT [2020] No. 115 document, it is forbidden to issue the certificate of free sale of anti epidemic materials. If it is necessary to issue the certificate, the company can only prepare a free sales certificate, print it out and seal it, and then get it to the CCPIT for certification. For details, please visit Question: Free Sale Certificate - CCPIT certification sample .

&In other words, products related to epidemic prevention materials, including medical devices and non-medical devices, are not allowed to issue the certificate of free sale of CCPIT. However, when many of our enterprises export anti epidemic materials to foreign countries, foreign customers ask for free sales certificates, but the CCPIT does not give them, which forms a contradiction. This is why we have this article.

    Recently, many clients have asked me to verify the authenticity of the free sale certificate issued in other places, and provided an inspection website: https://www.chinafsc.org According to the samples provided by customers, the certificate of free sale is issued by China international export sales trade association. As of the date of publication, three different samples have been received , but they are all issued by the association:

&After reading these samples and avoiding the authenticity of the documents, I have a lot of doubts on the basis of many years of working experience in operating the certificate of free sale:

Firstly, the main body of the association is

&From the address of the certificate, the China international export sales trade association belongs to Hong Kong, so whether it is a legally established association in Hong Kong, whether it has been put on record in the Ministry of Commerce, whether it is qualified to issue a free sale certificate, can be recognized only if it is authorized by the Ministry of Commerce. From the perspective of personal subjective cognition, in fact, it is similar to a company registered in Hong Kong. The name of the company is China international export sales trade association. Such a company name is easy to cause misunderstanding among ordinary people, and the company registered in Hong Kong should use traditional Chinese characters instead of simplified characters.

Second, certificate format

&From the signature of the certificate, we can see that some of them show the business registration certificate number and email address, while others do not show it, and there are also some different ones displayed in the mailbox. It is impossible for a document issued by a formal organization to change in a short time, but why this appears is worth pondering.

Third, certificate content

&From a professional point of view, there are more doubts about the content of the certificate:
1. Font: for certificates issued by Hong Kong institutions, the normal Chinese font should be traditional rather than simplified;
2. Type of font: there are Chinese + English and Chinese + English + Spanish versions on the certificate. For the same kind of certificate, the same export country, why the font types are different? According to many years of work, we can see that basically they are Chinese + English.

Fourth, seal

&This seal is similar to the seal of a company in mainland China, but it is quite different from that of a Hong Kong company:
1. Seal color: red used by mainland companies, while blue used by Hong Kong companies;
2. Seal shape: mainland companies all have this kind of big round seal, while Hong Kong companies often have small round seal or strip seal.
3. Seal font: the Hong Kong company seal with Chinese font is bar seal and traditional Chinese character, and the round seal is all in English.

Fifthly, check the website address

&The domain name 2020-04-28 registration is displayed through domain name information query(whois), which indicates that the website has not been open for a long time, and it has not been long since the announcement of CCPIT was issued. The IP address of the United States is displayed by Ping the domain name, which means that the website is put on the server of the United States. Through the source code to see that the website query function is simple, and the website data structure is also changing, how to change the specific data structure here does not make a detailed explanation. The documents have been certified by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, but the certification of the Hong Kong General Chamber of commerce is not strict. Basically, any document can be authenticated, and even the business registration certificate can not be required.

Summary:

&The above analysis is personal. I think that this kind of certificate is a word document drawn up by China international export sales trade association, and then printed and sealed, which forms the so-called free sales certificate issued by China International Export Sales Association. However, there are many professional loopholes in the certificate.

Statement:

&This article is about some doubts raised by platform staff after seeing the original certificate. It is only for reference, not intended to attack others. If China international export sales trade association has any objection to this article, it can contact the website administrator to explain the explanation and provide relevant information. After the doubt is answered, it can be supplemented or deleted.