All wines must be labeled before they can be sold.

The Ministry of Finance is drafting a Circular guiding the printing, issuance, management and use of stamps for imported wine products and wine produced for domestic consumption.

The draft clearly states that stamps on imported wine products and stamps on wine produced for domestic consumption can only be sold to organizations and individuals with a Wine Production License or a Wine Product Distribution Business License.

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Imported and domestically produced wine must be bottled (including jars, bottles, jars, cans, bags, boxes, and barrels, hereinafter referred to as bottles). Each bottle must have a stamp. In case the wine bottle uses cellophane film to cover the outside, the stamp must be affixed to the bottle, jar, or bottle before the cellophane film is covered on the outside.

The wine stamp is stuck across the place where the wine can be taken out on the packaging containing the wine product (bottle cap, jar cap, bottle cap, wine tap, etc.) to ensure that when the bottle cap is opened, the stamp will tear and cannot be reused.

For imported bottled wine through border gates, enterprises shall affix imported wine stamps at the place of physical inspection of goods under the supervision of customs officials.

For imported wine bottled domestically, enterprises shall perform and be responsible for affixing stamps on imported wine at the bottling facility before putting it on the market for consumption.

For domestically produced alcohol, organizations and individuals with a License to produce alcohol (including a License to produce craft alcohol for business purposes and a License to produce industrial alcohol) for domestic consumption must properly affix stamps to the alcohol products produced at the production site after the alcohol is bottled and before the alcohol products are sold domestically.

The General Department of Customs prints and issues stamps for imported wine. The General Department of Taxation prints and issues stamps for domestically produced wine. The printing, issuance, management and use of wine stamps are carried out in accordance with current regulations on the management and use of tax stamps.

Based on the annual wine production plan, domestic wine producing organizations and individuals must send a plan for the number of wine stamps they need to purchase to the directly managing Tax Authority no later than November 30 of the year preceding the planning year.

Organizations and individuals producing domestic wine that do not register a plan to use wine stamps are considered to have no need to buy stamps.

In case of fluctuations in the wine production process, or changes in the demand for stamps during the year, the producing organizations and individuals must register to adjust the number of stamps to be purchased in the planning year. Wine producing organizations and individuals must submit a registration to adjust the number of stamps to be purchased in the planning year to the directly managing Tax Authority at least ten working days before the date of request to purchase stamps.