[Explanation] With the implementation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) this year, more and more enterprises in Xiamen are enjoying the dividends brought by the RCEP policy.
On April 9, the reporter learned from Xiamen Customs that in the first quarter of this year, Xiamen Customs issued a total of 1,960 RCEP certificates of origin for export enterprises in Xiamen, with a value of about 1 billion yuan. Yuan Renminbi.
[Explanation] Xiamen Tungsten New Energy Materials Co., Ltd., located in Haicang District, Xiamen, doubled its exports to Japan in the first quarter of this year, and it is expected that exports to Japan will account for 60% of the company's total exports in the future.
What the RCEP policy brings to the company is a superposition of preferential exports and imports.
[Concurrent] Chen Qingdong, Deputy General Manager of Xiamen Tungsten New Energy Materials Co., Ltd.
According to the RCEP policy arrangement, starting from this year, Japan's import tariff on the ternary material lithium cobalt oxide will be reduced from 3.3% to zero year by year. With the increase in business volume, we can also enjoy more tariff reductions.
[Explanation] Since RCEP came into effect on January 1 this year, there are currently 12 member states in effect. RCEP and China-ASEAN, China-Korea and other preferential trade agreements are running at the same time. Enterprises have more choices in foreign trade. Each preferential trade agreement has its own characteristics of tariff reduction lists and origin standards, and relevant enterprises can choose to use the agreement that is most suitable for their own enterprises.
[Concurrent] Kang Binqiang, Chief of the Second Section of Comprehensive Business of Xiamen Haicang Customs
By comparing tariff concessions and a standard of rules of origin, to help enterprises in the product tax reduction list, the preferential rate of tax rates, the degree of leniency of the origin, and a degree of facilitation of operating procedures to help enterprises choose the best A trade agreement to reduce the biggest cost of enterprises and better help enterprises to go to market.
[Explanation] It is understood that in order to allow enterprises to better enjoy the dividends of the RCEP policy, Xiamen Customs "targeted" key enterprises to promote the RCEP policy in the first quarter, guide enterprises to plan ahead to develop the market, and actively build the integration of certificate of origin applications platform to build a full-chain, cross-departmental and cross-regional collaborative application system.
Li Siyuan and Pu Yunru Zhang Tingyu reported from Xiamen, Fujian
Responsible editor: [Liu Xian]