Supervised Warehouse

A Supervised Warehouse refers to a warehouse approved by customs and established under customs supervision specifically for storing goods that have entered the country but have not yet completed import customs declaration procedures, or goods that have been exported but have not yet left the country. Its core characteristic is that the goods are under customs supervision and may not be extracted, sold, or used for other purposes without customs permission. Main use scenarios include: temporary storage of import goods pending customs declaration, consolidation of export goods pending shipment, temporary storage of transit goods, and bonded exhibition. Precautions: Enterprises must use customs-approved supervised warehouses and comply with storage time limits (usually 3-6 months, extension may be applied for); goods entering and leaving the warehouse must be declared to customs and are subject to inspection; if the time limit expires without customs declaration, customs has the right to sell off the goods. Differences from other terms: Unlike a bonded warehouse, goods in a supervised warehouse generally do not enjoy bonded treatment and are only provided with supervised storage; compared with ordinary warehouses, supervised warehouses are directly supervised by customs and have stricter operating procedures. Foreign trade practitioners should accurately distinguish these to avoid compliance risks caused by misuse.