China News Network, Guangzhou, April 30 (Tang Guijiang, Chen Lin, Zhang Chao) A reporter learned from the Guangdong Branch of the General Administration of Customs on the 30th that the promotion of cross-border trade has just ended for a period of 4 months (from December 2019 to March this year) In the special action for facilitation, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Huangpu Customs have introduced 78 reform measures, combining the optimization of the port business environment with the reform of "delegating services", promoting the steady growth of foreign trade, and supporting the resumption of production and production of enterprises. Control the epidemic situation and promote trade facilitation simultaneously, make every effort to optimize the business environment of the Guangdong port, and enhance the level of cross-border trade facilitation.
According to statistics, in March, the overall customs clearance time for imports from Guangzhou and Shenzhen was 24.38 hours and 15.84 hours, respectively, and the overall customs clearance time for exports from the two cities was only 1.54 hours and 1.83 hours, respectively.
The customs officer of Foshan Customs Office in Shunde, affiliated to Guangzhou Customs, went to the production workshop of the enterprise to investigate and promote customs convenience measures. Photograph by Lu Chengxi
At 11:02 am on April 22nd, with the prompt of "di" on the mobile phone, Wu Jianhua, a customs officer of Panasonic Wanbao Meijian Life Electric (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd., received a customs clearance message. A few minutes later, at the gate of the Lianhua port area, the customs release instruction was issued, and the rod was released. The 162,000 printed substrates that arrived in the morning were shipped back to the factory for electric shavers, hair clippers, hair dryers, beauty instruments and other heat. The production of sales products.
During the epidemic situation, in order to meet the demand for rapid customs clearance of imported raw materials and equipment of production enterprises, the customs vigorously promoted the "two-step declaration" model according to the needs of enterprises. According to the person in charge of the business department of the Guangdong Branch of the General Administration of Customs, the import of goods uses a "two-step declaration", there is no need to submit all the "complete declaration" items to the customs at once, and after the risk of safe access is eliminated, the company can be quickly removed and the enterprise completes It takes less than 1 minute from completing the summary declaration to the customs to receiving the customs pick-up and release information, and the remaining items can complete the complete declaration and tax payment procedures within 14 days after the transportation vehicle enters the country.
At 10:30 on April 17th, a freighter full of Southeast Asian fruits berthed at Shekou Port. Among them, a fruit company's 4 counters of 76.8 tons of dragon fruit from Vietnam passed the advance declaration + shipside direct lifting mode, and it was within a few minutes. Lift the fruit away from the dock.
Since January this year, according to the Guangdong Branch Office, since this year, the Customs, together with the port management and terminal operating units, have jointly carried out “shipping by ship” for imported goods and “shipping by ship” for export goods in major ports such as Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Pilot, ports such as Guangzhou Nansha and Shenzhen Shekou are taking advantage of this innovative reform. After the declaration of imported fruits that do not require inspection, the cargo owner can directly pick up the goods at the wharf and ship them away, changing the original overseas-Hong Kong transit-Guangzhou / Shenzhen Port—Professional Market—The old mode of customs clearance for consumers, creating a new imported fruit sales model of “fruit imports—delivery at dealer terminals—courier delivery to consumers”, pushing Guangshen to become a high level in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Quality imported fruit distribution center.
In the Nansha Bonded Port Area, customs officers supervised the loading of "China-Europe trains" on site
In order to further reduce the cost of customs clearance, the Customs also provides free declaration channels and technical support to enterprises through the "Internet + Customs" and the single window of international trade. For example, to encourage and guide enterprises to use tariff guarantee insurance to replace the original high-cost guarantee deposit, insurance companies open "tariff guarantee insurance" for enterprises, and do not charge enterprise guarantee deposits. Enterprises can release taxes after first release, which greatly reduces the capital turnover pressure and operating costs of enterprises. The released funds can be invested in business operations.
In February of this year, in order to allow enterprises to enjoy preferential tax rates in ASEAN, and at the same time not to affect the speed of customs clearance due to the failure to submit the certificate of origin, Huangpu Customs instructed the enterprise to use guarantee release, and assisted the company to obtain tariff guarantee insurance provided by the insurance free of charge, a large number of medical protection Anti-epidemic materials such as clothing and boot covers are successfully cleared.
Chen Hong, general manager of the supply chain of DuPont China Group Co., Ltd., said: "Customs helped us contact customs declaration companies and insurance companies, and soon issued free insurance policies, which not only saved more than 2 million guarantee funds, but also imported epidemic prevention materials in seconds. Fast customs clearance. "At present, the tariff guarantee insurance can also achieve one-click online insurance through the" single window ".
The Guangdong Branch of the General Administration of Customs said that in the next step, the customs in Guangdong Province will continue to grasp the port health and quarantine to prevent the cross-border spread of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic; to optimize the port business environment, improve the level of cross-border trade facilitation, and promote the stability of Guangdong ’s foreign trade Growth and high-quality development will provide full support for the resumption of production and production of import and export enterprises and the efficient and stable operation of the foreign trade supply chain. (Finish)