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What is required to export eye cream to China?
Most eye creams are exported to China as ordinary cosmetics used around the eye. You should complete ordinary filing before general-trade import, appoint a Domestic Responsible Person and apply a Chinese label. Classification coding should include the eye area, and the safety assessment should match that site. An eye cream with SPF must be registered as a sunscreen; an eye cream that claims whitening or spot-removal must be registered as a special cosmetic.
How to judge the path
Dark-circle language should be written carefully. If it amounts to reducing pigmentation as whitening, assess special registration. If it only describes temporary appearance or moisturizing, it may remain ordinary.
Eye-area products are not the place to reuse a hair-dye or strong acid story from another SKU.
Typical documents, tests and labels
Testing and ordinary cosmetics filing may proceed in parallel. The ordinary filing cycle is about 10–20 days in total, depending on completeness and supplementary requests. That timing applies only to ordinary cosmetics filing, never to special cosmetics registration and not as a guaranteed import timeline. Prepare leave-on eye-area safety information and any efficacy basis for anti-wrinkle, moisturizing or soothing claims. Jinshang Testing organizes the compliance work. Testing is coordinated with partner laboratories, and those laboratories issue the reports they perform. After a record is issued, check it on the official NMPA filing query https://hzpba.nmpa.gov.cn/gccx/ and the NMPA data-search page https://datasearch.nmpa.gov.cn/datasearch/home-index.html#category=hzp.
Cautions
Do not claim to treat eye disease, styes or medically defined dark circles. Children’s products have additional limits and are not a shortcut for adult eye creams.
Questions we are often asked
Are eye serums treated differently from eye creams?
The texture name does not change the path. Function, site and claims do.
Can I use a face-cream filing for the eye cream?
No. A separately sold eye cream with its own name and formula is its own product, even if the brand story is related.
Next step
Discuss your China market path
Tell us whether you plan to import finished goods or manufacture in mainland China, and what the product claims. We will outline the likely filing or registration path. Testing, where needed, is arranged with partner laboratories.
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