China News Service, Taiyuan, April 1 (Yang Jing) In order to serve the national major regional strategy of ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, the customs has introduced special measures to strengthen the analysis and research of facilitation measures for free trade agreements and organize customs inter-customs integration in the Yellow River Basin cooperation. According to statistics, in the first two months of this year, 12 customs offices in the Yellow River Basin issued a total of 126,000 free trade agreement certificates of origin, a year-on-year increase of 4%, and the value of export preferential goods was 44.51 billion yuan. Among them, 26,000 RCEP certificates of origin were issued, a year-on-year increase of 15.7%.
Reporters learned from Taiyuan Customs on April 1 that the customs, together with other customs offices in the Yellow River Basin, is actively promoting system innovations such as the integration of origin visas, providing enterprises with facilitation of origin visas and other free trade agreement implementation services, and accelerating the establishment of a land- and sea-based service that takes into account both internal and external considerations. A new pattern of opening up in the Yellow River Basin that is interconnected, mutually reinforcing the east and west, and advancing in multiple directions.
The Yellow River Basin Customs "Promotes Enterprises to Enjoy Benefits and Concentrate on the Yellow River Journey" Free Trade Agreement Policy Promotion Event was recently held in Qingdao, Shandong Province. Taiyuan Customs organized more than 30 export companies in Shanxi Province to participate online, and selected and sent a business expert to participate in the service The Yellow River Basin's high-quality development origin technical service team participated in a series of publicity activities, carried out policy promotion and origin technical services for agricultural products, textiles and clothing, chemicals and other characteristic advantageous industries in the Yellow River Basin, and guided enterprises to make full use of RCEP and other free trade agreement policies. .
Innovative measures such as the integration of origin visas are bringing tangible policy benefits to enterprises in the Yellow River Basin. On March 26, customs officers from Shuozhou Customs affiliated with Taiyuan Customs issued three China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement certificates of origin for 129 tons of calcined kaolin exported by Shanxi Jinkun Mineral Products Co., Ltd. With these certificates, the calcined kaolin exported by the company can enjoy a tariff reduction of approximately 14,000 yuan during foreign customs clearance.
Li Yajun, general manager of Shanxi Jinkun Mineral Products Co., Ltd., said that the company applies for a certificate of origin from Shuozhou Customs, a subsidiary of Taiyuan Customs, and exports to foreign markets such as Southeast Asia through Tianjin Port. "Thanks to the customs' convenient policy of origin visa, our local Shuozhou enterprises can apply for the free trade agreement certificate of origin at Shuozhou Customs and send it directly to foreign countries. The whole process is very smooth."
Since 2023, the company has processed 83 certificates of origin for China-ASEAN and other free trade agreements at Shuozhou Customs, enjoying an export benefit of 460,000 yuan.
Taiyuan Customs stated that in the next step, it will give full play to the expert advantages of the Yellow River Basin Customs Origin Technical Service Team, strengthen analysis and research on facilitation measures for free trade agreements such as RCEP, and carry out tariff reduction policy promotion and origin technical services around the characteristic and advantageous industries of the Yellow River Basin, using The tariff policy of the free trade agreement reduces the import costs of enterprises and improves the export competitiveness of "Jin" brand products. (over)