Science and Technology Daily News (Reporter Chen Yu) "This is the first time that the Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs have made adjustments to the catalog of prohibited commodities for processing trade after 5 years. This is another step in implementing the requirements of the State Council to increase support for processing trade. Powerful measures will help expand the supply chain of the processing trade industry chain and support the stable development of processing trade." Hu Wenjie, director of the Nanjing Customs Free Trade Zone and Special Area Development Division, interpreted in an interview with reporters on December 15.
On December 1, the Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs issued the Announcement on Adjusting the Catalog of Prohibited Commodities for Processing Trade (No. 54 of 2020) (hereinafter referred to as the "Announcement on Adjusting the Catalog").
In 2006 and 2007, processing trade once occupied "half of the country" in my country, accounting for more than 50%.
In recent years, due to the continuous improvement of my country's foreign trade structure and the wave of international industrial transfer, processing trade has continued to shrink, and now only accounts for more than 20%.
On April 7 this year, the State Council executive meeting pointed out that processing trade accounts for a quarter of my country's foreign trade. It is necessary to coordinate the development of domestic and foreign trade, support processing trade enterprises to ease their difficulties, and promote the stability of foreign trade and foreign investment.
One of the important measures is to "expand the scope of industries that encourage foreign investment and reduce the types of prohibited commodities for processing trade."
The "Announcement on Adjusting the Catalogue" first narrowed down the categories of prohibited commodities for processing trade.
The catalog of prohibited commodities for processing trade released in 2014 has a total of 1871 commodity codes. This adjustment has eliminated 199, including most of the 31 chemical fertilizers, some steels under 7207-7217 and button-type mercury-free alkaline zinc manganese The primary batteries and primary battery packs can be exported through processing trade.
Secondly, the "Announcement of Adjusting Catalogue" adjusted the prohibition method of 35 commodity codes.
"The 199 product codes that have been eliminated are equivalent to changing from a negative list to a positive list." Wu Wei, deputy head of the first bonded department of Kunshan Customs in Jiangsu, explained that in the list of carcinogens announced by the World Health Organization in 2017, dicofol is a three-category carcinogen In this adjustment, dicofol was therefore included in the prohibited category; commodities such as waste magnesia bricks were adjusted from export ban to import ban, blocking the entry channel of solid waste, and both embodying the concept of green environmental protection under the new development pattern.
In addition, the banned import and export commodities of alcohol and other processing trade were further subdivided, and "use for the production of medical supplies" was excluded, which shows in detail that my country is actively participating in supporting the global fight against the epidemic.
Kunshan's foreign trade accounted for nearly 2% of the country's total import and export value, 1.4 times of the local GDP, of which processing trade still accounted for more than 50% of the foreign trade, which has a very high contribution to the open economy.
Wu Wei commented in an interview with reporters that policy deregulation is of great significance to maintaining the stability of foreign trade scale and promoting the extension of the industrial chain.
In his opinion, the adjustment of the catalogue will have a positive impact on the display panel, special steel and paper industries in Kunshan City. "Since the announcement of the "Adjustment Catalogue", we have received consultations from more than 20 companies and the response has been very positive. warm".
After the announcement of the "Adjustment Catalogue Announcement" policy, Zhu Qihan, general manager of Jinhai Paper Products (Kunshan) Co., Ltd., was very worried about how to dispose of the raw materials in hand.
After consulting the customs and learning that the policy transition period will be before the end of June next year, and the products made from existing raw materials can still be exported normally, the company has taken the reassurance.
Aijiexu Display Glass (Kunshan) Co., Ltd. is mainly engaged in the development and production of TFT-LCD flat panel display materials (glass substrates) and related supporting products. Zhang Haibin, deputy general manager of the company, said that in accordance with the prohibited catalogue released in 2014, the group's The glass raw materials produced by other companies can only be traded to downstream companies for further processing in general trade. Each shipment of goods needs to be taxed according to the regulations, and the tax refund can be applied after the display module is produced and exported.
On the one hand, the process is cumbersome, and on the other hand, it takes up a lot of money.
After this adjustment, companies can directly obtain display glass raw materials through the processing trade account book carryover, and downstream manufacturers can also export through processing trade. The entire industrial chain does not involve taxation, which is conducive to the improvement of the international competitiveness of the entire industry.