[Explanation] Since the "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership" (RCEP) came into effect on January 1 this year, enterprises in Fujian Province have enjoyed the "red envelopes" of tariff reductions.

On February 22, with the approval of Dongdu Customs, a subsidiary of Xiamen Customs, a RCEP certificate of origin for aluminum products with a value of about 709,000 yuan signed to Japan, marking that the value of RCEP export visas in Fujian Province exceeded 1 billion yuan.

　　[Explanation] The certificate of origin, as a certificate for enterprises to enjoy tariff reductions under the Free Trade Agreement, is known as the "economic passport" in the field of international trade. At present, Chinese enterprises export products with the RCEP certificate of origin, which can be used in other 10 other RCEPs that have taken effect. Member countries enjoy import and export tariff reductions.

Taking Southeast Aluminum as an example, the aluminum products produced by the company are mainly sold to Japan, and the annual export volume exceeds 20 million yuan.

With the good RCEP, the company's order volume has been placed in May, and the related business has ushered in a substantial increase.

　　[Concurrent] Zhou Fang, Manager of Import and Export Department of Southeast Aluminum Co., Ltd.

　　For this shipment, we can enjoy a tariff preference of 2,000 yuan (RMB) in the importing country. With such a provision of tariff reduction, we can finally enjoy zero tariff preference in Japan.

If we can achieve zero tariffs, the cost advantage of a few points will greatly enhance our competitiveness. In terms of customers, he is actually very happy to see it.

　　[Explanation] Since the implementation of RCEP, Fujian Customs and CCPIT have issued a total of 1,966 RCEP certificates of origin for 413 exporting companies, with a value of more than 1 billion yuan, mainly including agricultural products, umbrellas, aluminum foil plates and shoes, etc. Mainly exported to Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and other countries where RCEP has come into effect, and can enjoy the tariff reduction of importing countries of up to 10 million yuan by virtue of the RCEP certificate of origin.

　　[Concurrent] Liao Xubin, Deputy Director of Dongdu Customs, affiliated to Xiamen Customs

　　Xiamen Customs also actively builds an integrated platform for certificate of origin application, and upgrades the window issuance mode to the mode of home application, community issuance, and urban area delivery, so that it can be collected at any time and anywhere. The whole process of online processing has been realized, and you can print without leaving home, and the processing time has been shortened from 2 working days to 3 minutes.

　　[Explanation] After the RCEP comes into effect, the member states will immediately reduce taxes in accordance with the provisions of the agreement, and fulfill their commitment to opening up service investment. More than 90% of the trade in goods in the region will eventually achieve zero tariffs.

Wang Yong, associate professor at the Institute of Economics, Taiwan Research Institute, Xiamen University, said that under the unfavorable environment of the epidemic sweeping the world and the global economic downturn, RCEP has strengthened the stability and interconnection of regional industrial chains and supply chains, promoted the development of free trade in the region, and promoted the global Economic recovery.

　　[Concurrent] Associate Professor Wang Yong, Institute of Economics, Taiwan Research Institute, Xiamen University

　　In fact, RCEP is not just some preferential tariff reduction or exemption, it will follow some of the principles of market liberalization of the WTO, and will provide market access for investments in RCEP member countries, market access for product industries, and related products. Some laws that further expand the host country's market, as well as some related financial and other aspects will provide such measures that are more favorable. In this case, it is actually expanding the process of liberalization of the entire market in the Asia-Pacific region. .

　　[Explanation] It is understood that through the RCEP tariff preferential arrangement, enterprises in the region can use investment facilitation clauses, origin accumulation rules and approved exporter system to efficiently achieve trade activities and flexibly carry out business layout, thereby promoting the industrial chain in the region With the upgrading and reconstruction of the value chain, consumers can also enjoy products of higher quality and lower prices.

　　Li Siyuan and Zhang Tingyu reported from Xiamen, Fujian

Responsible editor: [Cheng Chunyu]