It is necessary to implement precise policies to promote the high-quality development of foreign trade

RCEP has been implemented for nearly a year, and the customs has helped enterprises enjoy policy dividends

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  It has been nearly a year since the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP), the world's most populous and largest trade agreement, took effect.

Since the beginning of this year, based on the needs of foreign trade and economic development, the national customs have precisely focused on RCEP rules of origin, tariff concessions, and the approved exporter system, sorted out the difficulties of enterprise declaration, optimized the application of RCEP smart benefits, and continued to make efforts to guide enterprises to seize RCEP development opportunities Enjoy policy dividends and promote high-level opening up and high-quality development of foreign trade.

  □ Our reporter Cai Yanhong

  "As early as last year, Hexi Customs, a subsidiary of Tianjin Customs, told us in advance that under the original China-Korea Free Trade Agreement and the Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement, our knitwear exported to South Korea was not included in the list of preferential tariff products, but after the implementation of RCEP in 2022 , The tariff on our exported knitted sweaters in South Korea has been reduced from 13% to 6.5%. This RCEP policy is great!" Zhang Xuerong, manager of Tianjin Bangli Trading Co., Ltd., praised.

  Zhang Xuerong's admiration represents the feelings of many foreign trade enterprises.

Today, it has been nearly a year since the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP), which covers the world's largest population and largest economic and trade scale, came into effect on January 1 this year.

Since the beginning of this year, based on the needs of foreign trade and economic development, the national customs have precisely focused on RCEP rules of origin, tariff concessions, and the approved exporter system, sorted out the difficulties of enterprise declaration, optimized the application of RCEP smart benefits, and continued to make efforts to guide enterprises to seize RCEP development opportunities Enjoy policy dividends and promote high-level opening up and high-quality development of foreign trade.

  Tax reduction benefits reduce the burden on enterprises

  On December 13, Changshu Customs, affiliated to Nanjing Customs, issued the RCEP certificate of origin for a batch of fluorine chemical products produced by Daikin Fluorochemicals (China) Co., Ltd. Duty relief over $4,000.

"We have applied for nearly 600 customs certificates of origin this year, with a value of more than 70 million U.S. dollars, of which the value of RCEP certificates has exceeded 13 million U.S. dollars, and it is expected to save more than 300,000 U.S. dollars in tariff costs." Pei Yongmei, the company's business manager, also emphasized that , "The implementation of RCEP also provides more options for companies to optimize their supply chain layout in the Asia-Pacific region."

  As the most populous and largest trade agreement in the world, RCEP has continuously stimulated its market potential since it came into effect this year.

The RCEP tariff reduction policy directly reduces the comprehensive export cost of products and reduces the burden on enterprises.

In addition to directly enjoying tariff preferences, the implementation of RCEP has also opened up a broader consumer market for foreign trade exports.

In this regard, Ou Chenqi, general manager of Jiangyin Youlit Smart Household Products Co., Ltd., feels deeply.

  In the past two years, affected by multiple factors such as trade frictions, the orders of Woolite Home Furnishing products exported to North America have decreased, and there are certain difficulties in business operations.

After learning about the relevant situation, Jiangyin Customs, a subsidiary of Nanjing Customs, took the initiative to preach RCEP and other free trade agreement policies for enterprises, and formulated a detailed list of tax reduction benefits based on the products of enterprises, helping enterprises to use cross-border e-commerce platforms to actively develop a number of Customers from Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia.

"At present, the company's exports are mainly distributed in ASEAN, Japan, South Korea, India and other countries and regions, among which the newly added exports to Japan and South Korea account for about 20% of the total export value, which has effectively helped the company achieve multi-channel revenue." Ou Chenqi said.

  For enterprises importing raw materials, the "paper gold" certificate of origin allows enterprises to enjoy the "real gold and silver" discounts.

On December 5, Ensco Investment Co., Ltd. declared to Kunshan Customs, a subsidiary of Nanjing Customs, to import a batch of bearing products originating in Japan, with a value of 176,000 US dollars.

This batch of goods can enjoy a 0.7% tariff preference and a tax reduction of 5,885 yuan based on the Japanese certificate of origin under the RCEP agreement.

"In accordance with the rules of the RCEP Free Trade Agreement, we have rationally arranged the product industry chain and supply chain. From January to November, we imported goods from Japan exceeding 46 million US dollars, and have enjoyed tariff reductions of more than 1.6 million yuan." Fu Xiao, the company's customs manager Ning said.

  In the process of promoting the high-quality implementation of the RCEP policy, Nanjing Customs comprehensively used "cloud presentations" and government affairs hotline interaction to guide enterprises to tap the room for benefits, take measures to facilitate the visa of origin, and implement the "smart audit + self-service" of the origin management system. "Print" to realize the 24-hour "immediate report, instant review, and instant receipt" of the certificate of origin.

In the first 11 months, Nanjing Customs issued a total of 80,200 RCEP certificates of origin for enterprises, and the visa value was 30.182 billion yuan. It is estimated that the goods can enjoy 244 million yuan of preferential tariffs in the destination country.

  Strengthen mutual recognition of origin investigation results

  Recently, in the declaration hall of Huangdao Customs, which is affiliated to Qingdao Customs, Qingdao Bangda Jitong International Logistics Co., Ltd. applied for the issuance of RCEP certificates of origin for 8 batches of exported daily necessities.

With these certificates, the goods can be reduced or exempted from customs duties of about 6,300 yuan when they are cleared in Japan.

  Qingdao Bangda Jitong International Logistics Co., Ltd. is a bonded logistics company located in the Qingdao area of ​​the Shandong Pilot Free Trade Zone.

Relying on the advantages of the company's bonded warehousing business, it provides centralized procurement and distribution services for Japanese and other foreign supermarkets, which has driven a large number of domestic small and micro enterprises to enter the international market.

  "Foreign supermarkets need many types of goods and small quantities each time, and they involve many of our suppliers. In order to provide faster services, we do not use the traditional general trade method to export, but our suppliers export them to us. The products produced are exported to the bonded warehouse for collection, and we then assemble the bonded warehouse products and send them to foreign supermarkets according to the order.” Gao Tongjing, a salesman of the company, said, “Under this model, the information of the company’s application for the certificate of origin cannot be related to the export declaration. There is a single correspondence, and because foreign supermarkets generally have little inventory and tight delivery schedules, it was difficult for the company to enjoy the benefits at the beginning of RCEP, and only applied for two RCEP certificates of origin in January this year."

  After understanding the situation, Qingdao Customs continued to optimize the visa model of origin in light of the development needs of new foreign trade formats.

"Our visa management implements 'forward and backward', pushing the determination of the place of origin forward to the collection link, carrying out the pre-examination of the place of origin with the manufacturer and the goods as the unit, and the review node of the certificate consignor and other information from the customs declaration to the export Afterwards, the actual departure of the goods will basically realize the RCEP certificate of origin'immediate review'." Yao Yong, the first-level senior director of the Customs Department of Qingdao Customs, said.

With the help of the Customs’ innovation of the visa model of origin and the implementation of a series of supporting facilitation measures, in the first 11 months of this year, the company applied for and issued 1,183 RCEP Certificates of Origin at the Customs, and the value of export benefits reached 200 million yuan.

  "Tariff reduction is the most important institutional opening result of RCEP in the field of trade in goods, and the certificate of origin is an important certificate for enterprises to enjoy tariff reduction under RCEP." Liu Jie, deputy director of the Commercial Legal Service Center of the Shandong Provincial Council for the Promotion of International Trade, said that Shandong Province The domestic customs and the CCPIT continue to strengthen information sharing, mutual recognition of origin investigation results, promote the one-window acceptance of consular certification of origin certificates, and jointly carry out origin visa verification, and continuously improve the level of facilitation for enterprises to enjoy RCEP.

  Recently, Qingdao Customs and the Shandong Provincial Council for the Promotion of International Trade jointly conducted a visa inspection of the origin of Qingdao Jinye Food Co., Ltd.

"Because of the needs of foreign customers, we apply for different certificates of origin at the customs and the CCPIT." Zhao Jinye, the general manager of the company, said frankly, "The joint inspection of the two competent departments effectively solves the problem of repeated inspections on the same issue by different visa agencies."

  According to statistics, in the first 11 months of this year, Qingdao Customs, Jinan Customs and Shandong Provincial Council for the Promotion of International Trade issued a total of 137,000 RCEP certificates of origin. Qingdao Customs and Jinan Customs applied the preferential tax rate under RCEP to a total of 6.05 billion yuan of imported goods, and reduced the tax by 310 million yuan.

  Make full use of the cumulative rules of origin

  Guangzhou LvAnyi Clothing Co., Ltd. mainly produces professional work clothes for various Japanese companies. It has high requirements for fabrics. More than 70% of the ingredients are imported from Japan, and the rest are made in China.

"According to the RCEP regional value component standard, the use of origin materials from RCEP member states for production can also be cumulatively included in the original composition of the goods. The work clothes we produce meet the origin standards and can be regarded as Chinese origin and enjoy RCEP tariffs. Discount." Shi Guang, vice general manager of the company, said.

  The cumulative rules of origin are one of the highlights of RCEP in the field of trade in goods.

Under this rule, the original materials of other member countries used by enterprises in RCEP member countries in the production process can be regarded as local original materials, so that the proportion of original value components can be increased cumulatively, so that exports among member countries It is easier for commodities to qualify for origin and meet the threshold for enjoying preferential tariffs.

  After applying RCEP’s cumulative rules of origin, enterprises are not limited to purchasing raw materials from a single country. By comparing raw materials from RCEP member countries, they can select raw materials with different quality and more suitable prices in multiple countries to boost procurement, production, and logistics. and other links are continuously optimized.

"Now our industrial chain and supply chain layout is more reasonable, and our trade relationship with Japanese customers is closer. This year's orders can't be filled!" Shi Guang said happily.

  According to Li Depu, the second-level director of the Origin Technology Section of the Tax Administration Bureau (Guangzhou) of the General Administration of Customs, the RCEP origin accumulation rules will effectively promote the minimization of production costs and the optimization of trade efficiency in the region. Enterprises can expand product raw materials within RCEP parties and spare parts procurement channels, thereby reducing production costs and expanding trade and investment cooperation.

  Taiji (Guangzhou) Automotive Interior Co., Ltd. is a well-known manufacturer of car seats.

"The car seat cover we produce uses imported raw materials from Japan, which account for about 60% of the value. We can use the accumulation rules of origin and enjoy the preferential tariff of RCEP. The tax rate is reduced from 3.8% to 3.4%. Decrease year by year until finally reduced to zero. This will further enhance our international market competitiveness.” According to Zhong Minghui, manager of the company’s customs declaration department, in the first 11 months of this year, the company’s export value reached 101 million yuan using the RCEP cumulative rules of origin Renminbi, enjoying tariff reduction and exemption of about 400,000 yuan.

  In order to promote the RCEP policy dividend to benefit more foreign trade entities, Guangzhou Customs continues to increase the intensity of publicity and training for enterprises, and provides "one-to-one" policy interpretation through in-depth enterprise research, helping enterprises make full use of tariff concessions, accumulation rules of origin, and customs clearance Convenience and other policies, continue to promote convenience measures such as "smart review" and "self-service printing" of certificates of origin, promote the integration of regional industrial chains and supply chains, and promote the construction of a strong trade country.

According to statistics, from January to November this year, Guangzhou Customs issued 472 RCEP certificates using the cumulative rules of origin, with a value of 250 million yuan.

(Rule of Law Daily)