Can you bring fresh fruit or produce to China?

• Fresh produce

  prohibited

  "新鲜水果、蔬菜" (fresh fruit and vegetables) are listed as prohibited, quoted directly from Announcement No. 470's actual text — the same announcement that bars meat and dairy.

  Also covers: fruit, vegetables, seeds, plants

  Checked 2026-09-19 — Source: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs & General Administration of Customs of China, Announcement No. 470 — List of Animals, Plants, Their Products and Other Quarantine Materials Prohibited from Being Carried or Mailed into the People's Republic of China (via China-Africa SPS Cooperation Information Network)

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