Rice 

Licence Exemptions

Exemptions from licensing requirements apply to the following:

1. Rice brought into Hong Kong in any ship in an amount not exceeding that which is reasonably required for consumption or use in the working of such ship.
   
   

2. Rice imported into or exported from Hong Kong in the personal luggage of a person solely for his own consumption or as gifts, in an amount not exceeding 15 kg.
   
   

3. For air-to-air transhipment cargo whereby at any time between its being brought into and taken out of Hong Kong the rice has remained in the cargo transhipment area of the Hong Kong International Airport.
   
   

4. For transhipment of other modes or inter-model transhipments, where the carrier or the forwarder handling the cargo has valid registration under the Transhipment Cargo Exemption Scheme (TCES) subject to complying with the conditions of registration under the TCES.