China News Service, Kunming, February 19 (Chen Jingjinjuan) The reporter learned from Kunming Customs on the 18th that in January 2022, export enterprises in Yunnan Province will apply for the "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement" (RCEP) certificate of origin and issue the country of origin. There are a total of 119 declarations, and the export commodities are mainly vegetables, flowers, chemical products, etc.
On January 1, 2022, RCEP officially entered into force for 6 ASEAN member states including Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam and 4 non-ASEAN member states including China, Japan, New Zealand and Australia.
Since the 15 member countries of RCEP are all important trading partners of Yunnan Province, and Vietnam and Laos are adjacent countries connected to Yunnan's land ports, Yunnan has ushered in a major development opportunity.
On February 18, a press conference on the policy interpretation of the "Yunnan Province Action Plan for Accelerating Connecting with RCEP" (hereinafter referred to as the "Action Plan") was held in Kunming. fully interpreted.
Among them, the "Action Plan" proposes a series of actions to facilitate the application of certificates of origin, customs clearance, and cross-border logistics around the docking and implementation of the rules of origin, customs procedures and trade facilitation in the agreement. action.
Such as guiding enterprises to make good use of the independent declaration of origin of the approved exporters, accelerating the construction of the China-Laos railway international train and the new channel between China and Myanmar in the Indian Ocean.
Ke Zhiqiang, a member of the Kunming Customs Party Committee and Deputy Director of Customs, said when answering a reporter's question that the approved exporter system is one of the characteristic rules of RCEP.
Approved exporters can issue a declaration of origin, which is equivalent to the certificate of origin issued by the government department, and can enjoy relevant preferential tariff policies.
At present, this system has been implemented in Yunnan, and one high-level certified enterprise in Yunnan Province has obtained the qualification of an approved exporter and independently issued a declaration of origin for the exported goods.
In order to ensure the implementation of RCEP, Kunming Customs actively promotes the 3.0 version of the Customs Origin Management Information Application Project to be put into operation in Yunnan Province, so as to complete all business of origin information management through a "single window".
In January this year, the province's export enterprises have applied for the RCEP certificate of origin through the system and issued a total of 119 declarations of origin. The export commodities are mainly vegetables, flowers, chemical products, etc.
Xu Dong, member of the Party Leadership Group of the Yunnan Provincial Development and Reform Commission and full-time deputy director of the Yunnan Provincial Leading Group Office for Promoting the Construction of the "Belt and Road", said that with the entry into force of RCEP, the world's largest free trade zone will further upgrade the cooperation between China and ASEAN. The opening of the China-Laos Railway will enhance Yunnan Province's cross-border logistics service capabilities, boost cross-border trade industry cooperation, and provide an important development opportunity for accelerating China's construction of a radiation center for South Asia and Southeast Asia.
Xu Dong added that as of February 17, 2022, a total of 1,785.5 passenger pairs have been operated on the domestic section of the China-Laos Railway, transporting 1,317,800 passengers.
Inbound and outbound freight trains run 236 trains of 5186 vehicles, sending 164,200 tons of goods.
The goods were exported to 7 RCEP member countries including Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, etc., which further expanded the trade of chemical, fresh, textile, electrical, gold, agricultural and sideline products between China and RCEP member countries. , the China-Laos Railway has become an important support for Yunnan Province to deeply participate in RCEP.
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