Shipping Fishing Tackle from China to Taiwan: How Do You Consolidate Rods, Reels and Lures?
Can fishing tackle bought in China be shipped to Taiwan?
Yes. Fishing rods, fishing reels (commonly called reels), fishing hooks and lures bought on Chinese e-commerce platforms can be sent to the 好運器 Shenzhen warehouse and then consolidated back to Taiwan. According to the Customs Administration tariff open data, fishing tackle falls under heading 9507; all four 11-digit lines have a first-column duty of 5% and a blank import-regulation column (no MW0; Mainland China goods are permitted to be imported). Business tax of 5% is also charged; express cargo with a dutiable value of NT$2,000 or less in the same batch is exempt from duty and business tax, but the exemption no longer applies once the same taxpayer has used it more than 6 times within the same half-year. Live bait is a live animal, which the 好運器 terms prohibit from shipping, and spearguns are firearms controlled under the Act Governing the Control of Guns, Ammunition and Knives, so please do not buy either; ask customer service first about electric reels containing lithium batteries. Rates follow the customs tariff in force at the time of declaration.
No. 好運器 only provides Mainland China→Taiwan consolidation, does not make purchases on your behalf, and does not offer Japan, Korea or US-to-Taiwan services. 好運器 has only the Shenzhen consolidation warehouse and the Taoyuan Dayuan operations warehouse; this page only covers fishing tackle bought on Chinese e-commerce platforms and sent to the Shenzhen warehouse.
Why do many people buy fishing tackle on Chinese e-commerce, and what is consolidation?
Fishing tackle consolidation means sending rods, reels, lures and other items you bought on Chinese e-commerce platforms to a consolidation warehouse first, after which the consolidator declares them to customs together and ships them to Taiwan. How 好運器 works: you place the order yourself on Taobao, Tmall, 1688 or another platform, enter the 好運器 Shenzhen consolidation warehouse as the delivery address, and after the goods arrive at the warehouse you choose a shipping method back to Taiwan.
- According to a report on the Weihai municipal government website dated 2024-09-25, Weihai Guangwei Outdoor Equipment Co., Ltd. is described as “the producer with the largest overall capacity in the global fishing tackle industry” and as “holding 1/8 of the world’s fishing tackle share”, with products exported to 64 countries and regions; this is a local government website’s own description of a single company, not third-party statistics, and it cannot be extrapolated to the whole Chinese fishing tackle market.
- This page does not compare prices between China and Taiwan: list prices, exchange rates and shipping fees on both sides keep changing, and the site has no first-hand price data either; to decide whether it is worthwhile, add up shipping, duty and business tax together.
- 好運器 does not make purchases for you and does not handle orders from Japan, Korea or the US; for fishing tackle brands and specifications see the fishing tackle brand and tariff guide.
What are the tariff lines and duty for fishing tackle?
According to the Customs Administration’s customs import tariff open data, fishing tackle is concentrated in heading 9507, with a total of 4 tariff lines of 11 digits each, and the first-column rate is 5% for all of them, with the import-regulation column blank for all:
| 11-digit tariff line | Official goods description (common name) | First-column duty | Import regulations |
|---|---|---|---|
9507.10.00.00-8 | Fishing rods (commonly called rods) | 5% | Blank |
9507.20.00.00-6 | Fishing hooks, whether or not fitted with snells (hooks) | 5% | Blank |
9507.30.00.00-4 | Fishing reels (commonly called reels) | 5% | Blank |
9507.90.00.00-1 | Other fishing tackle; landing nets, butterfly nets and similar nets; bird-shaped decoys … and similar hunting or shooting requisites (excerpt of the official description) | 5% | Blank |
Which line covers lures, sinkers and fishing line?
The official goods description only goes as far as “other fishing tackle” and does not list lures, sinkers or fishing line separately; this page also found no official classification guidance for these items. The actual tariff line is determined by customs based on the goods; when declaring, write the product name, material and purpose clearly.
Electric reels and lithium batteries
The tariff data has no dedicated entry for “electric reels”, and there is no official classification guidance either. What can be confirmed: the lithium accumulator lines 8507.60 and 8507.80 have a first-column rate of 2.5% and list C02 in the import-regulation column; how a complete electric reel is classified and whether it needs inspection is for customs to determine.
Date of the tariff data
The server time of the open data file is 2025-04-24, which cannot prove there were no later revisions; another page on the 好運器 site notes that the customs tariff was amended on 2026-01-28, and the “5%” and “blank import regulations” on this page have not yet been re-checked line by line against the amended current version. Actual rates and import regulations follow the customs tariff in force at the time of declaration.
How much tax is due on imported fishing tackle? Is NT$2,000 or less really tax-free?
First the three formulas published by the Customs Administration: duty = dutiable value × rate; business tax = (dutiable value + duty + commodity tax, etc.) × 5%; trade promotion service fee = dutiable value × 0.04%, waived at NT$100 or less. Dutiable value is the CIF price of imported goods, so freight and insurance up to the Taiwan port of entry are also included.
Formula example (not a quote)
Assume customs sets the dutiable value at NT$10,000, the applicable duty is 5%, and there is no commodity tax or other additional tax item: duty NT$500; business tax (10,000+500)×5%=NT$525; the two total NT$1,025. Trade promotion service fee 10,000×0.04%=NT$4, waived at NT$100 or less. The example excludes declaration, inspection, delivery, storage and handling fees.
Conditions for the NT$2,000 tax exemption
The Customs Administration’s “express cargo” page: cargo with a dutiable value of NT$2,000 or less is exempt from duty and from the business tax and commodity tax collected by customs on its behalf. But once the same taxpayer has been released under this exemption more than 6 times within the same half-year (months 1–6 or 7–12), it no longer applies; express cargo means each piece weighs 70 kg or less gross and is not controlled goods, prohibited goods, live animals or plants, and so on. An item priced below NT$2,000 may not stay under the threshold once freight is added to the dutiable value.
A study commissioned by the Ministry of Finance in 2018 suggested carefully reviewing whether to abolish the low-value exemption from business tax on imported goods; that is a research recommendation, not current regulation. Current rules follow the Customs Administration page above.
Does fishing tackle from China need an import permit?
Ordinary fishing tackle does not. The Customs Administration explains: where the import-regulation column of the tariff “lists neither MW0 nor MP1, the Mainland China goods are permitted to be imported and exempt from an import permit”; only goods listing MW0 are not permitted. The import-regulation column of all four lines under heading 9507 is blank, with no MW0.
“No MW0” only means the Mainland China goods may be imported. Tax must still be paid, rules of other agencies (quarantine, firearms, telecommunications, carriers’ acceptance rules) still apply, and it must not be written as “permit-exempt therefore lawfully cleared”.
The latest exclusion annex (dated 2026-03-10) of the Ministry of Economic Affairs’ small-quantity Mainland China goods permit-exemption notice (CIF NT$32,000, 24 pieces per item, 40 kg for goods that cannot be counted by piece) lists only 3 tariff lines and does not include heading 9507; but 9507 never had MW0 to begin with, so fishing tackle does not need to rely on this allowance.
How do I consolidate fishing tackle from China to Taiwan?
The following 6 steps apply to fishing tackle bought on Chinese e-commerce and sent to the 好運器 Shenzhen warehouse.
1Choose a platform and order
Place the order yourself on Taobao, Tmall, 1688 or another platform, and check the product name, material, size and whether it contains a battery on the product page.
2Enter the Shenzhen consolidation warehouse as the delivery address
Enter the address of the 好運器 Shenzhen consolidation warehouse and your member number; goods sent elsewhere are outside the service.
3Declare the product name and amount truthfully
Write the product name, quantity and actual purchase amount clearly, for example “fishing rod × 1” or “fishing reel × 2”.
4Check for prohibited and restricted items
Do not buy live bait or spearguns; ask customer service first about products containing lithium batteries or wireless functions.
5Estimate the tax
Fishing tackle under heading 9507 has a first-column duty of 5% plus business tax of 5%; dutiable value includes freight; express cargo of NT$2,000 or less is tax-free, but the exemption no longer applies after more than 6 uses within a half-year.
6Choose a shipping method and confirm the length
Air freight counts actual weight only; sea express uses the higher of volumetric and actual weight; for long rods confirm the length first. Rates and transit times follow the 好運器 shipping rate guide.
Which fishing tackle or accessories cannot be shipped or need to be asked about first?
Fishing tackle itself is mostly fine; accessories and live animals are the trouble. Each item below states what the official sources say and what this page found nothing on:
Live bait, live fish, live shrimp, earthworms
Article 4 of the 好運器 Terms of Service lists live animals and plants as prohibited from shipping, so live bait is not accepted. On the legal side: quarantine objects may not be imported by postal delivery (Animal Infectious Disease Control Act, Article 34); import of live fish, live crustaceans and molluscs must meet quarantine conditions (Regulations on Quarantine of Imported Quarantine Objects, Article 10); quarantine objects in principle may not be imported by mail (Plant Protection and Quarantine Act, Article 17, with a proviso for a gazetted certificate exemption or prior approval). Animal and plant quarantine is administered by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Agency, Ministry of Agriculture (Taiwan); whether specific bait such as earthworms is a quarantine object, this page found no explicit official text.
Spearguns and underwater fish-shooting gear
A speargun is a “firearm” listed in Article 4 of the Act Governing the Control of Guns, Ammunition and Knives, and may not be transported or possessed without permission (Article 5). Anyone who without permission manufactures, sells, transfers, rents or lends a speargun is punished by imprisonment of up to one year, detention or a fine of up to NT$500,000 (Article 9, paragraph 1); anyone who without permission possesses, keeps in custody, or displays with intent to sell is punished by imprisonment of up to six months, detention or a fine of up to NT$500,000 (Article 9, paragraph 3). Indigenous people and fishers who make their own spearguns for use as everyday tools are covered separately by Article 20 (administrative fine). Ordinary buyers, please do not buy them.
Electric reels and electronic floats containing lithium batteries
The 好運器 terms list lithium batteries and power banks as restricted shipments, which must comply with IATA rules and be declared and approved in advance; see Shipping lithium batteries and power banks to Taiwan. Whether a complete electric reel can be accepted is not stated on the site; please ask customer service before ordering.
Wireless fish finders, remote-controlled bait boats
Whether such goods with wireless transmission are telecommunication controlled radio-frequency equipment regulated by the National Communications Commission (NCC): there is no official notice specific to fishing tackle, and this page found nothing. Under Article 9, paragraph 3 of the Regulations Governing the Manufacture, Importation and Declaration of Telecommunication Controlled Radio-Frequency Equipment, second-level telecommunication controlled radio-frequency equipment for personal use may be imported by mail by written undertaking, limited to at most 2 units at a time and 10 units per person per year; before buying, confirm whether the product has a type approval certificate.
Fishing knives, fish-fillet knives
The 好運器 site explains that firearms and knives are judged by specification (see Taiwan’s list of prohibited and restricted imports), and outdoor hunting knives are a commonly mistaken item; this page cannot say “always prohibited” or “always allowed”; if unsure, ask customer service and attach the specifications.
How do I ship an overly long fishing rod? How is it billed?
Long rods are where fishing tackle consolidation most often runs into trouble. The rules stated explicitly on the site are below; anything not stated explicitly (for example the maximum rod length or an oversize fee) this page does not state at all:
| Item | Rule | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Air express | Per-piece weight is recommended not to exceed 30 kg and the length of any side not to exceed 150 cm; sea LCL cargo can accept larger and heavier goods (freight varies by goods; please ask customer service for a quote) | FAQ |
| Express clearance limit | Gross weight per piece is limited to 70 kg; anything over must go through general cargo declaration | Shipping rate guide |
| Sea express billing | Volumetric weight = length × width × height (cm) ÷ 10000; the higher of actual weight and volumetric weight is charged | Shipping rate guide |
| Sea LCL cargo (freight varies by goods; please ask customer service for a quote) | From NT$25 per kg, or from NT$150 per volume unit; volume = length × width × height (cm) ÷ 28316 (the volume unit is the "cai", commonly used in Taiwan) | Shipping rate guide |
| Taiwan home delivery | Above 10 cai or 40 kg per piece, Taiwan-side home delivery carries an oversize surcharge, graded by county or city and by cai and weight | Shipping cost guide |
| Convenience-store pickup | The whole parcel (including the packing bag) must be within 5 kg, the three sides within 105 cm in total, and the longest side within 45 cm; exceeding any one means switching to home delivery; fishing rods usually exceed 45 cm, so home delivery is mostly needed (this is an inference from the specifications, not a site rule specific to fishing rods) | Taiwan-leg delivery |
For rods that break down into several sections, prefer the shorter packaging; for a long rod that must ship in one piece, tell customer service its length, width and weight before ordering to confirm whether it goes by air, sea express or sea LCL cargo. The 好運器 site does not currently publish a maximum receiving length for fishing rods.
Which platforms in China should I buy from? How do I order to the Shenzhen warehouse?
好運器 does not buy on your behalf; for how to order on each platform see the corresponding guide:
- Shipping from Taobao to Taiwan
- Shipping from Tmall to Taiwan (Tmall is a platform under Alibaba Group)
- Shipping from 1688 to Taiwan
- Shipping from Pinduoduo to Taiwan
- Shipping from Xianyu to Taiwan
- When buying fishing tackle, state the product name, model, material and whether it contains a battery clearly, so that it can be declared truthfully once it reaches the Shenzhen warehouse.
What research can be consulted? What is the problem with lead sinkers?
The studies cited on this page only describe the environmental and institutional background and cannot be used to prove the quality or composition of any particular imported fishing tackle:
- Lead sinkers: a US waterbird study found that some birds ingest lead sinkers (Franson et al. 2003); a North American literature review also lists lost fishing tackle as a source of lead exposure (Haig et al. 2014), and another review specifically covers the effects of ingesting lead fishing tackle and the results of promoting non-toxic tackle (Grade et al. 2019). All of these are foreign data, and this page found no Taiwan rule on importing lead sinkers.
- Taiwan: boat-fishing anglers consider marine environmental awareness the most important and think marine debris should be the first thing to improve (Hsiao et al. 2024); among 1,037 beach-cleanup records in Taiwan, tackle items make up 16% of derelict fishing gear (Lee et al. 2025), but that is coastal fisheries waste and is not the same as recreational tackle.
What are common terms in fishing tackle consolidation?
- Tariff 9507
- Heading 9507 of the customs import tariff, covering fishing rods, fishing hooks, fishing reels and other fishing tackle, with 4 lines of 11 digits in total, all with a first-column duty of 5%.
- Fishing reel (commonly called reel)
- The official goods name in the tariff is “fishing reel”; in everyday speech it is simply called a reel (the colloquial name).
- MW0
- A tariff import-regulation code; Mainland China goods listing MW0 are not permitted to be imported; the four lines under heading 9507 have no MW0.
- Dutiable value
- The basis for calculating tax, being the CIF price of imported goods, including freight and insurance up to the Taiwan port of entry.
- C02
- One of the import-regulation codes in the tariff; lithium accumulator lines list C02, and whether inspection is needed is determined by customs.
- Quarantine objects
- Animals, plants and their products that must be declared for quarantine under animal and plant quarantine rules and may not be imported by postal delivery.
- Volumetric weight
- A volume-based weight converted from length, width and height; for sea express, volumetric weight is length × width × height (cm) ÷ 10000, and the higher of it and actual weight is charged.
What are the sources and the scope of verification?
The sources below were consulted on 2026-09-30; document dates and consultation dates are shown separately, and no date is invented where an update date is not stated.
Government and official primary sources
- Customs Administration: customs import tariff open data | Document date: not stated (server file time 2025-04-24); the four 11-digit lines under heading 9507 (95071000008, 95072000006, 95073000004, 95079000001) all have a first-column rate of 5% and a blank import-regulation column; the lithium accumulator lines 8507.60 and 8507.80 have a first-column rate of 2.5% and import regulation C02. The file date is fairly old; actual rates follow the customs tariff in force at the time of declaration.
- Customs Administration: Mainland China goods import regulations (determining permit exemption) | Document date: 2026-07-09; where neither the code “MW0” nor “MP1” is listed, the Mainland China goods are permitted to be imported and exempt from an import permit.
- Customs Administration: Mainland China goods import regulations (MW0 not permitted) | Document date: 2026-09-03; goods listing “MW0” are not permitted to be imported.
- Customs Administration: What taxes and fees are payable on imported goods? | Document date: 2026-07-13; duty = dutiable value × rate; business tax = (dutiable value + duty + commodity tax, etc.) × 5%; the trade promotion service fee is dutiable value × 0.04%, waived at NT$100 or less; dutiable value is the CIF price of imported goods.
- Customs Administration: Express cargo | Document date: 2026-07-08; express cargo with a dutiable value of NT$2,000 or less is exempt from duty, business tax and commodity tax; once the same taxpayer has been released under the low-value exemption more than 6 times within a half-year it no longer applies; express cargo means each piece weighs 70 kg or less gross and is not controlled goods, prohibited goods, live animals or plants, and so on.
- Customs Administration: Consolidated table of dedicated exemption codes of permit-issuing agencies | Document date: updated ROC year 112, month 5, day 1; C02 is one of the gazetted import-regulation codes, related to determining goods subject to inspection; this page uses it only to explain that “lithium accumulator lines list C02” and draws no inference on the classification of a complete electric reel.
- Ministry of Economic Affairs: Notice permitting import of small quantities of Mainland China goods without an import permit | Document date: ROC year 101, month 3, day 6 (Ref. No. Jing-Shou-Mao-Zi 10140004370); goods within CIF NT$32,000, within 24 pieces per single product (within 40 kg for goods that cannot be counted by piece) are permitted without a permit; being permit-exempt does not mean exempt from handling under other laws.
- Ministry of Economic Affairs: Items excluded from the small-quantity Mainland China goods permit exemption | Document date: ROC year 115, month 3, day 10 (Ref. No. Jing-Mao-Zi 11550200230); the latest exclusion annex lists only the three tariff lines 8543.70.99.50-4, 8711.60.10.00-9 and 8711.60.20.00-7, not including heading 9507; but 9507 never had MW0 to begin with.
- Laws & Regulations Database of Taiwan: Animal Infectious Disease Control Act | Document date: amended ROC year 108, month 12, day 13; Article 34: quarantine objects may not be imported by postal delivery; those imported by postal delivery shall be returned, confiscated or destroyed.
- Laws & Regulations Database of Taiwan: Regulations on Quarantine of Imported Quarantine Objects | Document date: amended ROC year 114, month 10, day 8; Article 10: import of live fish and their gametes and fertilized eggs, and of live crustaceans and molluscs, must meet the respective quarantine conditions.
- Laws & Regulations Database of Taiwan: Plant Protection and Quarantine Act | Document date: amended ROC year 107, month 6, day 20; Article 17: quarantine objects may not be imported by mail; those imported by mail shall be returned or destroyed (with a proviso for a gazetted certificate exemption or prior approval).
- Laws & Regulations Database of Taiwan: Act Governing the Control of Guns, Ammunition and Knives | Document date: amended ROC year 113, month 1, day 3; the “guns” listed in Article 4 include spearguns; Article 5: without permission of the central competent authority, no one may manufacture, sell, transport, transfer, rent, lend, possess, keep in custody or display them; Article 9: manufacturing, selling, transferring, renting or lending a speargun without permission is punished by imprisonment of up to one year, detention or a fine of up to NT$500,000 (paragraph 1), and possessing, keeping in custody or displaying with intent to sell a speargun without permission is punished by imprisonment of up to six months, detention or a fine of up to NT$500,000 (paragraph 3); Article 20: indigenous people or fishers who transport or possess a “self-made speargun” without permission for use as an everyday tool are additionally fined not less than NT$2,000 and not more than NT$20,000.
- Laws & Regulations Database of Taiwan: Regulations Governing the Manufacture, Importation and Declaration of Telecommunication Controlled Radio-Frequency Equipment | Document date: amended ROC year 114, month 2, day 3; Article 9, paragraph 3: second-level telecommunication controlled radio-frequency equipment for personal use may be imported by mail by written undertaking, at most 2 units at a time and limited to 10 units per natural person or legal person per year (a natural person must be aged 18 or above). There is no official notice specific to fishing tackle on whether fishing tackle is telecommunication controlled radio-frequency equipment.
- Weihai Municipal People’s Government: report on Guangwei Group | Document date: 2024-09-25; the report says Weihai Guangwei Outdoor Equipment Co., Ltd. “is the producer with the largest overall capacity in the global fishing tackle industry” and “holds 1/8 of the world’s fishing tackle share”, with products exported to 64 countries and regions; this is a company’s self-description on a local government website.
Research literature
Recreational boat anglers' perceptions on the sustainable development of marine recreational fishing in Taiwan
The abstract states: a survey of the views of recreational boat anglers in Taiwan; respondents considered marine environmental awareness the most important and pointed to marine debris as the first thing to improve; the subject is boat anglers’ perceptions, not the fishing tackle market.
Derelict fishing gear in relation to the characteristics of coastal fisheries in Taiwan
Analyses 1,037 beach-cleanup records in Taiwan from 2009–2018; tackle items make up 16% of derelict fishing gear; the bulk is coastal fisheries waste, not the same as recreational tackle.
Lead Fishing Weights and Other Fishing Tackle in Selected Waterbirds
An examination of 2,240 waterbirds of 28 species in six US states: 3.5% of Common Loons and 2.7% of Brown Pelicans had ingested lead sinkers; a US sample, not involving Taiwan.
The persistent problem of lead poisoning in birds from ammunition and fishing tackle
A review of lead’s toxicity to more than 120 bird species in North America, with exposure sources including ammunition fragments and lost fishing tackle; mainly North American, not involving Taiwan or import rules.
Lead poisoning from ingestion of fishing gear: A review
A literature review: ingesting lead fishing tackle affects wildlife and human health, and voluntary, educational and regulatory measures to promote non-toxic tackle are evaluated; the abstract has no Taiwan or China data.
Research and Analysis of the Customs Clearance System and Tax Regime for Cross-Border E-Commerce Goods (Ministry of Finance commissioned study, ROC year 106, GRB PG10610-0063)
Recommends carefully reviewing whether to abolish the low-value business-tax exemption on imported goods; this is a 2018 research recommendation, not current regulation; the current exemption rules follow the Customs Administration’s express cargo page.
The tariff data file is dated 2025-04-24, earlier than the 2026-01-28 tariff amendment noted on another page of the site; line-by-line results from the query page of the Trade Administration, Ministry of Economic Affairs could not be obtained, nor did we obtain a direct result from the list of commodities subject to inspection of the Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection (BSMI) (we can only infer from the tariff import-regulation column that 9507 does not list C02); please re-check with the Customs, Port and Trade Single Window tariff query. For the classification of electric reels, fish finders, lures and lead sinkers, the transport restrictions on lithium-battery electric reels, the quarantine rules for bait such as earthworms, and the NCC requirements for wireless tackle, this page found no explicit official text; claims such as “the world’s largest” are quoted from the Weihai municipal government website’s company self-description and do not represent third-party statistics.
What are the common questions about shipping fishing tackle from China to Taiwan?
Can fishing rods be shipped from China to Taiwan?
How much is the duty on fishing tackle shipped to Taiwan?
Do I need an import permit to buy fishing tackle?
An electric reel has a lithium battery; can it be shipped?
Can live bait or earthworms be shipped?
How do I ship a very long fishing rod?
Can I buy a speargun?
What tariff numbers apply to lures, lead sinkers and fishing line?
Further reading
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