Since the beginning of this year, my country’s foreign trade has been increasing continuously by double digits. In the next step, how to continue to consolidate the positive trend? How to reduce costs and increase efficiency for foreign trade companies and further stimulate the vitality of market players? The relevant person in charge of the General Administration of Customs introduced the situation at a regular press briefing held on the 24th.
On April 29 this year, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress revised the “Customs Law of the People’s Republic of China” and cancelled the “customs declaration enterprise registration” customs administrative examination and approval items, marking the full implementation of filing management by customs declaration entities. The General Administration of Customs immediately implemented relevant work, and at the same time introduced measures to facilitate private and enterprise benefits such as “full-process network management, nationwide management”.
of the General Administration of Customs, said at the meeting that as of the end of August, there were 1,598,700 customs filing and declaration entities nationwide. A year-on-year increase of 5.7%. Among them, there were 1,577,100 consignees and consignors of import and export goods, an increase of 5.58% year-on-year; 21,600 customs brokers, an increase of 15.89% year-on-year.
According to Wang Sheng, companies can log in to the “single window” or “Internet + Customs” at any location across the country to submit the filing application, and the entire process will be handled paperless online; if the company chooses the location of the customs wrongly, the first question of the customs will be responsible for the application. , Contact the local customs for processing, and truly realize “zero errands, zero cost” and “application anywhere, one-time processing” for enterprises.
Among them, there are 19 countries along the “Belt and Road”, 5 member states of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) and 13 Central and Eastern European countries.
The AEO system is initiated by the World Customs Organization and aims to pass the customs certification to enterprises with a high level of compliance, credit status and safety, and to facilitate customs clearance. The questionnaire survey shows that when my country’s AEO certified companies export to mutually recognized countries or regions, 73.62% of the companies’ overseas customs clearance inspection rate has been significantly reduced; 77.31% of the companies’ overseas customs clearance speed has increased significantly; and 58.85% of the companies’ overseas customs clearance logistics costs There is a certain reduction.
Wang Sheng said that the customs will continue to promote the AEO mutual recognition cooperation process and make every effort to promote the AEO mutual recognition cooperation with RCEP member states.
Processing trade has been greatly affected by the global spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic due to the “two ends” of the raw materials and the market. At the same time, the scale of processing trade enterprises is also expanding, and the trend of group operation continues to increase. There is an urgent need for bonded goods to freely circulate and coordinate processing among different enterprises within the group.
Up to now, 20 customs offices across the country have carried out pilot work on the reform of enterprise group processing trade supervision. The import and export value of the participating enterprises’ processing trade was 206.69 billion yuan, and the deposit (guarantee) was reduced or exempted by about 8.6 100 million yuan, saving 32.984 million yuan in enterprise logistics and customs declaration costs.
In the first eight months of this year, my country’s comprehensive bonded zone imports and exports were 3.53 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 26.8%, which was 3.1 percentage points higher than the national imports and exports. By leveraging policy advantages, cultivating emerging business models, and innovating regulatory methods, my country’s comprehensive bonded areas have been continuously transformed and upgraded, and have become a “propeller” for the steady growth of foreign trade.
According to Zhang Xiuqing, Deputy Director of the Enterprise Management and Inspection Department of the General Administration of Customs, the General Administration of Customs has successively introduced supervision systems for bonded R&D, bonded ore blending, futures bonded delivery, bonded leasing, and bonded maintenance to support the continuous optimization of the industrial structure of the comprehensive bonded zone and emerging business formats. Rapid development. From January to August this year, the import and export of “bonded R&D” was 191 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 264.79%; the import and export scale of “bonded
Recently, the General Administration of Customs issued an announcement to comprehensively promote the implementation of the “Cross-border e-commerce retail import return central warehouse model” nationwide. According to feedback from pilot companies, this model can save companies about 100,000 yuan in warehouse rent and labor costs in a single month. According to the company’s calculations, this model can reduce the overall return time by 5 to 10 days on average, alleviating the pressure on the arrival time limit of cross-border e-commerce imports.
Post time: Dec-11-2021