China News Service, Shanghai, February 6 (Reporter Jiang Yu) According to Zhang Yi, deputy director of Shanghai Customs, on the 6th, the import and export value of the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone in 2023 was 2.2 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.8%, accounting for 10% of the national total in the same period. The import and export value of the 22 pilot free trade zones accounted for 28.7%, which was 3.1 percentage points higher than the import and export growth rate of the national free trade pilot zones.
On the same day, the Shanghai Municipal Government held a press conference to introduce the relevant situation of Shanghai's implementation of the "Overall Plan for Comprehensively Aligning with International High-Standard Economic and Trade Rules to Promote High-level Institutional Opening of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone". This implementation plan is a detailed measure to fully implement the "Overall Plan for Comprehensively Aligning with International High-Standard Economic and Trade Rules to Promote High-level Institutional Opening of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone" issued by the State Council on December 7, 2023. It focuses on 8 aspects. A total of 117 pilot measures were proposed.
Zhang Yi said that 15 of the 117 pilot measures involve customs matters, including "imported wines are exempted from the Chinese translation of trademarks or trade names", "simplified domestic quarantine measures for specific categories of imported goods" and "optimizing international transit and consolidation operations". Model" and other measures to improve the level of trade liberalization and facilitation. There are also measures to create a market-oriented, legal and international first-class port business environment, such as "expanding the number of applicants for advance ruling on imported goods" and "strengthening customs intellectual property protection". There are tasks such as "supporting Shanghai's international trade 'single window' cross-border exchange of data" and taking the lead in implementing high-standard digital trade rules.
"Shanghai Customs will make every effort to seek the support of the General Administration of Customs, accelerate the implementation of pilot measures in the implementation plan, realize normal operations as soon as possible, and rely on the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone to take the lead in building an institutional system and supervision model that is connected with high-standard economic and trade rules." Zhang Wing said. (over)