Foreign Trade Act Article 13

In order to ensure national security, to implement international cooperation and agreements, to improve the management of exports and imports of strategic high-tech goods, and to facilitate the need of introducing of high-tech goods, the following requirements apply to the export and import of such goods:1. No exportation is allowed unless otherwise authorized;2. Where import permits are granted, no change of the importer or transfer to any third country or region is allowed unless otherwise authorized;3. Intended use and end user shall be truthfully declared; no change is allowed unless otherwise authorized.Specific strategic high-tech goods transported to the restricted regions may not transit, transship or become stored in bonded warehouses, logistics centers and free trade zones via any commercial port of this country without authorization.Categories and regulated areas of the goods in the first two paragraphs shall be announced by the competent authority and published in the government gazette and on the website of the competent authority for free public access.The competent authority may detain specific strategic high-tech goods in breach of the provisions in paragraph 2 of this Article and impose the punishment in accordance with this Act or relevant laws. Unless confiscated, shipment shall be returned by the competent authority.For detainment of aforementioned goods, Customs officials are entrusted with enforcement by the competent authority.The application requirements and procedures, the regulations governing exportation/importation, transit, transshipment or storage in bonded warehouses, logistics centers and free trade zones, the declaration, changes and restriction of the export/import use and end user and the investigation of destinations and use of goods, and any other matters required for compliance, as referred to in Paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article, shall be prescribed by the competent authority.