General Administration of Customs: Innovate and continuously optimize the regulatory system to support the development of cross-border electronic commerce.

Original title: General Administration of Customs: Innovate and continuously optimize the regulatory system to support the development of cross-border electronic commerce

On January 14, held at the Information Office of the Council of StatePress conferencein,customsCampusnews spokesperson、StatisticsLi Kuiwen, Director of the Analysis Department, said that under the influence of the epidemic, cross-border e-commerce as a new business format has achieved rapid development in 2020. As an emerging business format, cross-border e-commerce during the epidemicimport and exportThe volume of trade has shown signs of not decreasing but increasing, becoming an important force in stabilizing foreign trade.

Li Kuiwen said that China Customs has been actively adapting and promoting the development of cross-border e-commerce, continuously innovating and optimizing the regulatory system, and supporting the orderly development of new business formats such as cross-border e-commerce, and has adopted five measures:

One is to comprehensively promote cross-border e-commerceTo exportProductReturn supervision measures, optimize cross-border e-commerce retail import return measures, solve the problem of difficult return of cross-border e-commerce exports, and fully support cross-border e-commerce exportscompany“Sell the World.” Optimize Cross-Border E-Commerce Retail Import Refund Measures to Help Businesses Overcome the EpidemicLogistic delayAnd other impacts to help companies improveAfter sales servicesystem.

The second is to innovate and pilot cross-border business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce export projects. Customs has added trade methods “9710” and “9810”, which are now in Beijing and 22 othersDirect CustomsCarry out pilot projects to promote cross-border e-commerce regulatory innovations from B2C to B2B, with supporting measures to facilitate customs clearance. Pilot companies can apply customs clearance facilitation measures such as “single registration, docking at one point, priority inspection, customs transit and convenient return.”

The third is to expand cross-border e-commerce smoothly.CirculationCAT. Affected by the epidemic, international flights were suspended and reduced on a large scale last year, and traditional capacity was drastically reduced.General Administration of CustomsIt timely enacted ten measures to support the development of China-Europe freight trains and support the use of China-Europe freight trains to carry out cross-border e-commerce, mail and other transportation services During the epidemic , Customs supported the postal department to open temporary entry and exit postal routes, cumulatively opening temporary exits.Port15 and 13 temporary ports of entry. Actively transport incoming and outgoing mail and cross-border e-commerce products to ensureindustrychainsupply chainstable.

The fourth is to do everything possible to ensure the “Double 11” and other cross-border electricity servicesdealOrderly customs clearance of goods at peak of service. In 2020, cross-border e-commerce will grow rapidly. Cross-border e-commerce through customsadministrationThe platform inspected and released 2.45 billion tickets for import and export,I andAn increase of 63.3%. During the “Double 11” period in 2020, 52.27 million import and export invoices were processed through the unified import and export cross-border e-commerce customs system, an increase of 25.5% over the previous year. ; the peak processing list reached 3407 votes per second, an increase of 113.2%, All indicators reached new highs.

Fifth, improve cross-border electronic commerce statistics To fully reflect the general import and export situation of cross-border electronic commerce, the General Administration of CustomsborrowBased on China’s “Electronic Commerce Law” and the World Customs Organization definition of cross-border electronic commerce, we have explored and established a statistical system of cross-border electronic commerce. According to preliminary customs statistics, China’s cross-border e-commerce imports and exports in 2020 are 1.69 trillion yuan, an increase of 31.1%, of which exports are 1.12 trillion yuan, an increase of 40.1%, and imports of 0.57 trillion yuan, an increase of 16.5%.

Li Kuiwen said that in the next step, customs will continue to focus on the development of new business formats and corporate concerns, continue to strengthen supervision and optimizeService, Continue to improve regulatory and statistical systems, and continually promote the high-quality development of new cross-border e-commerce business formats.

(Source: The Paper)

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