GACC registration and origin compliance — before your vessel departs.
China's General Administration of Customs requires overseas food and agricultural exporters to be registered on the GACC system before their goods can clear Chinese customs. Origin traceability is a registration prerequisite. OriginTrace builds the farm-level record GACC requires.
GACC-registered commodity categories
18+
Clearance without registration
Impossible
Farm-to-port traceability
100%
Three types of operator with GACC obligations.
Agricultural Exporters to China
Any exporter shipping food or agricultural commodities to China — including cocoa, coffee, sesame, cashew, and other processed agricultural goods — must hold valid GACC registration.
Processing Facilities
Processing and packaging facilities handling goods destined for the Chinese market must maintain documented traceability from raw material receipt to finished goods dispatch.
Cooperatives and Aggregators
Cooperatives and aggregation intermediaries that supply to GACC-registered exporters need origin traceability documentation that satisfies the upstream registration requirement.
Built for every step of GACC compliance.
From source to payment — every step connected
The GACC compliance timeline.
2021
GACC Decree 248/249 enacted
Jan 2022
Decree 248/249 took effect
2022–23
Enforcement tightening, rejected shipments increase
2024+
Full traceability documentation expected
Ongoing
Annual registration renewal required
Clearing doubts about our traceability platform
GACC compliance starts with the farmer, not the freight forwarder.
We'll show you how OriginTrace builds the farm-level traceability record that GACC registration requires — before your vessel is booked.