Chinanews.com, March 22. According to the website of the Ministry of Commerce, six departments including the Ministry of Commerce recently issued the "Notice on Expanding the Pilot Program of Cross-border E-commerce Retail Imports and Strictly Implementing Regulatory Requirements" (Shang Cai Fa [2021] No. 39, below (Referred to as the "Notice"), proposed to further expand cross-border e-commerce retail import pilots.
The notice clarified that the scope of the cross-border e-commerce retail import pilot program will be expanded to all cities (and regions) where the free trade pilot zone, cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone, comprehensive bonded zone, import trade promotion innovation demonstration zone, and bonded logistics center (Type B) are located ). In the future, relevant cities (regions) can start online shopping bonded import (customs supervision method code 1210) after the local customs confirm that they meet the regulatory requirements.
Data map: In a bonded warehouse, employees are sorting goods.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Chen Jimin
The notice requires that each pilot city should earnestly assume the main responsibility, strictly implement the regulatory requirements, and promptly investigate and deal with violations such as "bonded online shopping + offline pickup" and secondary sales outside the special customs supervision area to ensure the smooth progress of the pilot and promote the industry Standardize healthy and sustainable development.
The news pointed out that in November 2018, six departments including the Ministry of Commerce issued a cross-border e-commerce retail import supervision policy, which will be piloted in 37 cities including Beijing, and will be further expanded to 86 cities and the entire island of Hainan in 2020.
Since the introduction of the policy, various departments have conscientiously performed their duties and fulfilled their responsibilities, improved the policy system, and all localities have effectively assumed the main responsibilities, improved the working mechanism, and promoted the implementation of the pilot projects.
After several years of pilot exploration, the cross-border e-commerce retail import policy system has been continuously improved, and positive results have been achieved in enriching domestic market supply, driving the development of related industries, and better satisfying people's needs for a better life.
In the next step, six departments including the Ministry of Commerce will continue to pay close attention to the development of cross-border e-commerce retail imports, actively strengthen business exchanges and guidance, support pilot cities to develop business, and give full play to the positive role of cross-border e-commerce retail imports. , To promote the expansion of high-quality goods imports, better services to build a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the main body and the domestic and international double cycles mutually promoting each other.