I will answer from the specific operational aspects. First of all, if individuals want to engage in export trade activities, they must first register as individual industrial and commercial households or companies, not natural persons. The basic procedure is as follows:

★. Individual industrial and commercial households or companies registered in the Administration for Industry and Commerce (the business scope must have the words "import and export of goods").

★. Go to the quality supervision department for the organization code certificate.

★. Go to the tax department for tax registration certificate.

★. Go to the Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau (called the Bureau of Commerce in some places) to handle the registration of foreign trade business qualifications.

★. Go through the registration formalities at the customs.

★. Go through the registration formalities at the inspection and quarantine bureau.

Go through the registration formalities at the foreign exchange bureau and open a foreign exchange account in the bank.

If all goes well, it will take about a month to complete the above procedures.