Science and Technology Daily (correspondent Chen Guowen, Wei Liang, reporter Zhu Tong) On November 25, with a sound, the first cross-border e-commerce export train from Kashgar, China to Tashkent, Uzbekistan departed from Kashgar Station.
After the special train has been declared in the Kashgar Comprehensive Bonded Zone, it will exit the Khorgos port and is expected to arrive in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 20 days.
After the Kashgar-Tashkent cross-border e-commerce special train runs smoothly, the normal operation of the cross-border e-commerce special train will be realized, and it is expected to run two trains every month.
This batch of cross-border e-commerce goods was exported using the "1210" bonded declaration model. It is the country's largest single batch of cross-border e-commerce goods declared through the "1210" model, and it is also the first cross-border e-commerce special train in southern Xinjiang.
The total value of this batch of goods is 78 million yuan, mainly for household goods, auto parts and children's toys.
The special cross-border e-commerce train has the characteristics of strong timeliness, low cost, and large transportation volume. It can realize the intensive export of goods. It will help cross-border e-commerce enterprises in Kashgar to reduce costs and quickly expand the market of countries along the “Belt and Road”. The development of local foreign trade has injected strong development momentum.
The new cross-border e-commerce business form officially landed in the Kashgar Comprehensive Bonded Zone on February 26, 2021.
In order to accelerate the development of cross-border e-commerce business in Kashgar, Kashgar Customs pays close attention to policy trends, actively visits companies, understands their business conditions and work requirements, and assigns business backbones to "one-on-one" for policy interpretation and business guidance to help companies expand Business scope and overseas markets.
Since the beginning of this year, Kashgar Customs has supervised 8 million cross-border e-commerce export packages, with a trade value of nearly 200 million yuan.
"Cross-border e-commerce is an important part of the diversification of foreign trade in Kashgar. Kashgar Customs will base on Kashgar’s unique location advantages, vigorously replicate and promote the pilot free trade zone reform experience, implement various customs clearance facilitation measures, and make every effort to do a good job in cross-border trade. Cultivation and support of new business formats such as border e-commerce and financial leasing, and build a diversified development pattern in which multiple modes of transportation coexist, multiple trade methods coexist, and multiple companies participate, actively guaranteeing the high-quality development of the open economy in southern Xinjiang Escort." said Wang Chuanjie, head of Kashgar Customs.