People's Daily Online, Beijing, July 22 (Li Qiaochu) On July 22, the State Council Information Office held a regular policy briefing of the State Council to introduce the "Implementation Opinions on Further Optimizing the Business Environment and Better Serving Market Entities". Dang Yingjie, head of the National Port Administration Office of the General Administration of Customs, introduced at the meeting that in recent years, the business environment at my country's ports has been continuously optimized, and the convenience of cross-border trade has increased significantly, which is mainly reflected in four aspects:
Vigorously reduce the overall customs clearance time for import and export of goods
The General Administration of Customs has continuously promoted the "advance declaration" of import and export goods by deepening the reform of customs operations and improving the fault tolerance mechanism. Starting from January 1 this year, the customs has promoted and implemented the pilot reform of "two-step declaration" for imported goods nationwide. As of June 30, the number of enterprises adopting the "two-step declaration" has reached 4,321, with an average customs clearance time of 28 hours, which is less than the average overall customs clearance time. In some coastal ports such as Tianjin, Shenzhen and other qualifying regulatory areas, “direct delivery by ship” for imported goods and “direct shipment on arrival” for export goods will be piloted.
Actively carry out tariff guarantee insurance reform. Since the launch of this pilot reform in November 2018, a total of 3,185 companies have participated so far. Compared with the initial stage of the pilot program, the current percentage of tariff guarantee insurance in the guarantee clearance declaration form has increased by 28%, which reduces corporate guarantee costs while ensuring tax security, while also improving customs clearance efficiency.
Continuously optimize the customs clearance process for bulk commodities. Implementation of the inspection and supervision model reform of "prior inspection and later inspection" for imported iron ore and other low-risk mineral products, and adjust the quality inspection of imported cotton and iron ore from batch-by-batch laboratory testing to the implementation of enterprise applications. Take cotton as an example. After the implementation of the new measures, the average customs clearance time has been reduced to half a day.
Strengthen the cooperation with overseas customs for mutual recognition of certified business operators (AEO). At present, China Customs has signed AEO mutual recognition cooperation agreements with 42 countries and regions in 15 economies, including 18 countries along the “Belt and Road” route. The number of mutually recognized countries and regions ranks first in the world. The effect of Chinese AEO companies enjoying the convenience of mutual recognition abroad is very obvious. A questionnaire survey was conducted in the previous paragraph. The results of the survey showed that 80% of the companies felt that the speed of customs clearance abroad was accelerated, more than 50% of the companies’ customs clearance time was within 5 hours, and more than 70% of the companies’ cargo inspection rate at foreign customs was Reduced.
Since the beginning of this year, in response to the global outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, the customs has strengthened the monitoring of the port clearance time of import and export goods to minimize the impact of the epidemic on the overall customs clearance time. In June, we monitored that the overall customs clearance time for imports across the country was 39.66 hours, and the overall customs clearance time for exports was 2.28 hours, a reduction of 59% and 81% respectively from 2017.
Efforts to improve the informatization and intelligence level of customs clearance
The General Administration of Customs promotes the application of the new generation of customs clearance system H2018, realizes the deep integration of customs inspection business, vigorously promotes the installation and use of H986, CT and other machine inspection equipment at ports across the country, expands the application scope of intelligent image review, increases the variety of intelligent image approval commodity identification, and further improves Check efficiency.
Promote a new generation of electronic payment systems for taxes and fees to realize the instant payment of taxes and fees, and the entire process of tax bill circulation without paper. Support the development and comprehensive promotion of the online application of the enterprise self-printing function of the certificate of origin and the "Customs Special Payment Form". At present, the number of FTA electronic networks has reached 12, and the self-printing certificate of origin has been expanded to 16, and the self-printing rate has increased from 36% in 2019 to the current 55.7%. Expand the online verification of inspection and quarantine electronic certificates with foreign official institutions, and implement paperless certificates with the Netherlands and other qualified countries. Promote the paperless exchange of ocean bills of lading for bills of lading, and enterprises no longer submit paper ocean bills of lading or bill of lading during customs declaration, reducing the link and time of document circulation.
Vigorously streamline the import and export link supervision certificates and accompanying documents
In conjunction with relevant national departments, the original 86 types of regulatory documents in the import and export process have been streamlined to the current 44 types. Except for 4 types that cannot be connected due to security and confidentiality, the other 40 types of regulatory documents have all achieved online verification. Fully promote electronic customs declaration entrustment and exempt enterprises from submitting invoices, packing lists and other accompanying documents in the import and export declaration process. For those who need to verify paper materials for business, it is allowed to submit electronic documents first and then supplement paper materials.
118 import licenses for mechanical and electrical products have been cancelled. For imported auto parts and accessories that involve 3C certification, the certification issued by the certification body is directly adopted, and sampling testing is no longer implemented in principle. Everyone knows that the China-Europe Express Express has developed very fast recently. The warehouse receipts of eligible China-Europe Express Express allow enterprises to merge and declare. Taking Manzhouli Customs as an example, as of June 30, the customs has processed 2,695 inbound warehouse receipts and 2,175 in outbound warehouse receipts. According to preliminary estimates, it can reduce the number of enterprise declarations by nearly 40%.
Coordinate the prevention and control of the epidemic and promote the steady growth of foreign trade
Actively respond to the impact of the epidemic, successively introduced 10 measures to stabilize foreign trade growth, formulated a package of policy measures such as 50 specific task lists, simplified customs clearance procedures, reduced enterprise customs clearance costs and domestic sales costs, eased business difficulties, and supported enterprises in resuming work and production , To ensure the smooth operation of the foreign trade industry chain and supply chain.
In the next step, the General Administration of Customs will work with relevant port authorities to coordinate epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, continue to take effective measures, focus on the concerns of market players, rely on reforms to further improve the efficiency of import and export customs clearance, and strive to solve the problems encountered by enterprises in customs clearance. "Blocking points" and "pain points" can better serve market players, further reduce burdens and increase efficiency for enterprises, and enhance their endogenous motivation and vitality.