Recently, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Promoting the Stability and Quality Improvement of Foreign Trade", which clearly put forward 13 policy measures to promote the smooth and smooth transportation of foreign trade goods.
Previously, the General Administration of Customs issued ten measures to ensure the smooth circulation of industrial chains and supply chains in key regions, support small and medium-sized enterprises to carry out market procurement trade, speed up the customs clearance of urgently needed goods, and improve the efficiency of inbound and outbound logistics. Work.
"Customs across the country will give full play to their functional roles, and while unswervingly do a good job in the prevention and control of the epidemic at ports, a series of measures to promote the stability and quality of foreign trade will be implemented and effective, and will make every effort to ensure the stability and smoothness of the industrial chain and supply chain, and ensure that customs clearance is accelerated, costs are reduced, and costs are reduced. Benefit and increase efficiency," said the relevant person in charge of the General Administration of Customs.
Ensure safe and smooth customs clearance
On May 27, a Roche imported charter plane successfully completed customs clearance at Shanghai Pudong Airport.This is the fourth charter flight of medical supplies imported by Roche Diagnostics since May.In the past month, Roche has completed customs clearance of 4,164 pieces of goods with a total weight of 327.5 tons.
"After understanding the company's import plan and customs clearance requirements, we have a dedicated person to follow up with a special window service 24 hours a day, and provide a 'one machine, one policy' tailor-made supervision and security plan. Features provide convenient measures such as inspection in cold storage, and urge the biopharmaceutical industry to resume work and achieve production." said Xu Zhe, deputy section chief of the customs inspection department at Shanghai Pudong Airport.
From January to February this year, the total import and export value of Shanghai ports was 1.76 trillion yuan, accounting for 28.4% of the national total.However, due to the impact of the epidemic, the proportion of the total import and export value of Shanghai ports in the country plummeted to 16.3% in April.
"The safety and smoothness of the Shanghai port is of great significance to the resumption of work and production in Shanghai and the health and stability of the Yangtze River Delta economy." Gao Rongkun, director of Shanghai Customs, introduced that Shanghai Customs has conducted questionnaire surveys, video conferences and other forms of integrated circuits, biomedicine, automobile manufacturing, etc. More than 400 companies in key industries conducted research, sorted out 37 problems and suggestions in 4 categories of logistics, human resources, supply chain, and policy appeals. Business people do practical things and solve problems.
On April 30, during the most critical period of the epidemic in Shanghai, Shanghai Customs and Nanjing, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Hefei and other customs issued a joint notice to strengthen the rapid response and coordinated handling of difficult customs clearance and emergency incidents in cross-customs areas, and to coordinate guarantees. During the epidemic, key enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta achieved rapid customs clearance of inbound and outbound goods through Shanghai ports, fully supporting the resumption of work and production.
"We coordinate the list of key enterprises in the industrial chain and supply chain in the Yangtze River Delta region, realize the mutual recognition of the five customs clearance of white-listed enterprises, and ensure one declaration, one inspection, and one release. For key industries such as aviation, shipping, integrated circuits, and automobile manufacturing, the establishment of a full customs clearance process The green channel of visualization." Gao Rongkun said.
As Shanghai has entered the stage of fully restoring normal production and living order, the foreign trade of Shanghai port has been further stabilized, and the pace of resumption of work and production of foreign trade enterprises has accelerated significantly.The latest statistics show that in May, Shanghai Pudong Airport Customs supervised a total of 4,436 inbound and outbound cargo planes, a significant increase of 74.85% over the same period in April; 165,000 tons of inbound and outbound cargo were supervised, a significant increase of 84.6% over the same period in April.
Expand new export channels
On May 28, under the supervision of Xuzhou Customs, a subsidiary of Nanjing Customs, the Xuzhou China-Europe freight train carrying goods purchased from the market left the customs supervision place.This is the first batch of goods in Jiangsu Province to be exported by China-Europe freight train after being declared in the form of market purchase trade.
This batch of LED panel lights destined for Uzbekistan was purchased by Chuyuzhi Daily Department Store, Mocheng Street, Changshu City, Jiangsu Province, and declared to the local customs for export through market procurement trade.Merchant Zhang Guirong introduced that under the "China-Europe Railway Express + Market Procurement Trade" model, he can not only enjoy the preferential policies of market procurement and trade, but also can easily take the China-Europe Railway Express for fast export, which saves more than 30% of logistics costs compared with the past. .
"We instruct enterprises to export goods near the place where the goods are assembled after customs declaration in Changshu, and enterprises have more choices in determining export logistics channels." Li Xinjun, deputy director of Changshu Customs, said that by optimizing the export mechanism for customs transit and customs clearance, we actively support Open up new logistics channels such as China-Europe trains and China-Laos railways to help small, medium and micro enterprises go abroad.According to statistics, since the beginning of this year, the total export value of Changshu market procurement trade has exceeded 4.6 billion yuan.
Song Bin, the operator of Xuzhou China-Europe Railway Express and deputy general manager of Xuzhou Huaihai International Land Port Operation Co., Ltd., said frankly that due to the impact of the epidemic, the pressure on the collection and distribution of the railway is relatively high. The market procurement trade' model not only gives full play to the advantages of simple declaration, fast customs clearance and the function of ensuring smooth flow of trains, but also builds a shared and low-cost foreign trade platform for the majority of small and medium-sized enterprises."
According to statistics, in the first quarter of this year, my country's China-Europe freight trains operated 3,630 trains and transported 350,000 TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 7% and 9% respectively, and the comprehensive heavy container rate was 97.7%.Especially since April, China-Europe freight trains have been smooth and stable, with 1,170 trains operating in the whole month, an increase of 36 trains compared with March, a month-on-month increase of 3%.Since the outbreak of COVID-19, China-Europe freight trains have operated more than 1,000 trains in a single month for 24 consecutive months, effectively ensuring the stability of the international industrial chain and supply chain.
It is reported that on the basis of the Xuzhou China Railway Express pilot project, Nanjing Customs will further promote the "quick customs clearance" export mode of pilot railway ports in Suzhou, Lianyungang and other places to improve the level of cross-border transportation facilitation of China Railway Express; at the same time, continue to simplify and optimize the market The applicable conditions for the supervision of small and small batches of procurement trade, expand the scope of automatic inspection of small and small batch export inspection and quarantine documents, and quickly issue electronic accounts, fully support the creation of a new model of market procurement trade, and open up new opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises to secure orders and expand exports. aisle.
Help enterprises reduce burden and increase efficiency
A few days ago, at the SIPG Container Terminal in Anji, Zhejiang, for the first time, four containers loaded with jute yarn completed the procedures from unloading and loading to departure through the "ship-side direct lift" mode. The whole process took less than 20 minutes, and the goods arrived at the port. , "Zero delay" from unloading to loading.
It is reported that this is the first time that Hangzhou Customs has extended the above-mentioned models to inland river ports after implementing the business model of “ship-side pick-up” for imports and “direct-to-port loading” for exports in four seaports of Jiaxing, Taizhou, Zhoushan and Wenzhou, realizing the realization of Full coverage of all seaports and inland river ports.
"Affected by the epidemic, a large number of enterprises choose to import and export goods by water transportation, and the container operation volume at the port continues to increase. The customs vigorously promotes the 'direct loading' and 'direct lift' model, which can effectively improve the efficiency of terminal operation and accelerate the inbound and outbound goods in the Yangtze River Delta region. Circulation." Wang Mao, director of the Port Supervision Office of Hangzhou Customs, said that the new model has superimposed dual advantages, which is conducive to making good use of the transportation resources of various seaports and inland river ports in the province and ensuring the stability of the logistics supply chain.
In response to the problems of some foreign trade enterprises such as poor logistics, blocked industrial and supply chains, and rising comprehensive costs, Guangzhou Customs has started to help foreign trade by speeding up the customs clearance of urgently needed goods, improving the efficiency of inbound and outbound logistics, and actively implementing measures to reduce taxes and fees. Enterprises reduce production and operation costs, and support foreign trade enterprises to maintain orders and stabilize expectations.In terms of trade facilitation, measures such as advance declaration, simplified declaration, and integrated customs clearance mode across customs areas have been fully implemented, so that "enterprises do less errands and data do more errands" and help enterprises reduce burdens and increase efficiency.
Chen Zhen, deputy head of Guangzhou Customs, said that the next step will continue to increase policy publicity and interpretation, in-depth follow-up and investigation to promote the implementation of foreign trade policies to maintain stability and improve quality, and continue to expand the coverage of policies that benefit enterprises; establish a long-term mechanism for service enterprises, and make good use of them. The "problem clearing" mechanism helps the supply chain industry connect the upstream and downstream of key industries, serves enterprises to reduce burdens and increase efficiency, and does everything possible to ensure market players, market shares, and the stability of the industrial chain and supply chain. The stability and quality of foreign trade were maintained.
【Editor: Shi Rui】
