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Original Title: Hainan’s “Facial Recognition” Anti-Infringement Purchase of Duty-Free Products Will Be Listed in Personal Credit Records
Our reporter Pei Yu reports from Beijing
Although island-wide customs operations will have to wait until 2025, and some Hainan Free Trade Port works are expanding steadily and in an orderly fashion, duty-free shopping in the outer islands has become the hottest point. economic growth of the Hainan Free Trade Port. However, there were also “problems”: the phenomenon of illegal purchases, arbitrage purchases and duty-free goods transported in various ways began to appear.
On November 25, a reporter from China Business News learned that, in response to this problem, Haikou Customs has installed an “anti-submersible” facial recognition system in high-risk peripheral island ports such as seaports. Currently, the system has been in operation for a period of time and may be accurate. The identification of “returning” passengers provides great technical support to customs to prevent, manage and combat illegal purchases, establish purchases and transport goods duty free. Violators will be included in the credit history and may also be sanctioned with a three-year ban on the purchase of tax-free products.
The journalist also learned that a “positive list” is being compiled for residents of Hainan Island to purchase duty-free products. At the same time, regarding the question of whether cars are included in the positive list of duty free goods, the current situation is that for cars imported for operation, the relevant tax exemption policies are being formulated and will be published In time; and for automobiles imported for personal use. Tax exemption, relevant national policies have not yet been clear
Facial recognition
Since the outlying island duty-free quota of Hainan free trade port was increased to 100,000 yuan, “Hainan purchasing agents” have been on the rise. However, recently, several people who work as purchasing agents in Hainan told reporters: “Recently, they have to ‘restrict themselves’, because some of their friends in the same industry have been investigated and punished by the relevant Hainan authorities for buy tax-free products illegally. “
One of the reasons for the accurate identification of purchasing agents is that Haikou Customs has begun to use facial recognition technology in accordance with the law to identify suspicious individuals and, by matching big data in the background, You can accurately identify potential illegal purchases and arbitrage of duty-free products, and resell and profit from them. Let them know until they are punished.
“As far as we know, this facial recognition system has been in operation for a while. It is Haikou Customs that is advancing this work. Now it appears to be effective and conducive to purifying market order.” Hainan Duty Free Trader Tell this reporter. Regarding this statement, the reporter also obtained confirmation from many other independent sources.
The facial recognition system is mainly installed in high-risk peripheral island ports, such as seaports. Hainan Free Trade Port adopts the management method of “open the first line and control the second line”. According to the relevant regulations, consumers can transport goods duty free within the quota when purchasing airline tickets, train tickets, and ferry tickets departing from Hainan Island. “And the” outer islands “must pass through the ports of the outer islands. Therefore, the installation and use of facial recognition systems in the ports of the outer islands in accordance with the law to identify the people who enter and come out with high frequency can play a role in rapid detection.
Shi Zongwei, Haikou Customs Director, was interviewed on the official website of the General Administration of Customs a few days ago and confirmed that the facial recognition system has been put into use and achieved certain results.
Many people close to the Hainan government told reporters that the Hainan side has cracked down on illegal purchases, arbitrage purchases, transportation, and the resale of duty-free products. The facial recognition system is just one of many methods. “The monitoring of the outlying island channel is monitoring, and there are civilian clothes. At the same time, the intensity of video surveillance and inspection of the store are very strong, so it is not too difficult to accurately identify the people who buy illegally. “
Credit history
Accurately identifying suspicious people is only the first step. The purpose of identifying suspicious individuals is to crack down on violations. “Generally, those who are identified in the ports of the outer islands usually need to be exhorted and state policies first, and then under official supervision, accordingly, to get the goods duty free off the island,” said the aforementioned Hainan duty-free goods operator.
The journalist learned that Hainan has already imposed joint penalties on illegal purchases and arbitration of duty-free products. “Customs is a vertically managed department and cooperates very well with local government. Customs is responsible for supervision, discovery, investigation and punishment, and local government is responsible for punishment. The two sides form a reasonable deterrent The main thing is to allow the outlying islands not to deviate from their original intentions. ” An approach to local government. The person said.
One of the most important means of such joint punishment is that the local government will include those who have been punished for infractions of the regulations in their personal credit records. A few days ago, the Labor Office of the Joint Conference for the Construction of the Social Credit System of Hainan Province issued a plan to provide assistance for the use of off-island tourists’ duty-free shopping quotas for buying and reselling duty-free products off the island, as well as for the purpose of obtaining illegal profits, and to provide assistance in the form of illegal sales and profits by third parties. Provisions are established for the punishment of such acts.
The core of this disciplinary rule is to include it in personal credit records.
According to the official statistics of the Haikou Customs, as of October 31, the Haikou Customs has intercepted and discouraged 701 passengers who intend to remove duty-free goods out of the quarantine area, preached the customs supervision regulations and the supervised them to transport duty-free goods off the island. A total of 228 offending passengers will be penalized for not purchasing duty-free materials within 3 years.
“Purchasing duty-free products for profit, using false or non-compliant certificates when recalling duty-free products, and providing false information on outlying island customs duties are targets for monitoring and key punishment. Customs have customs sanctions and local governments have local governments. Government punishment. “The aforementioned person close to the local government told the press.
Customs will return duty-free merchandise seized on the outlying islands suspected of infringements that have nothing to do with the case. However, if the goods or articles are smuggled by the court and confiscated by the judgment, the Department for the Fight against Customs Smuggling will execute it in accordance with the law and deliver it to the Treasury.
Positive list
According to the “General Plan for the Construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port” (hereinafter referred to as the “Plan”), the time for the Hainan Free Trade Port to be fully closed and operated is 2025. Before This, the “outlying islands tax exemption” policy was implemented for outlying islands passengers, and the per person fee was increased to 100,000 yuan. The Outlying Islands Tax Exemption implemented “Positive List Management”, that is, only items on the main list are eligible for tax exemption.
The outlying islands tax exemption policy is aimed at the “outlying islands” scenario, and the reporter’s information shows that the relevant departments are actively preparing for the Hainan Island staff. In the case of non-peripheral islands, the basic mode of policy for the purchase of duty-free products remains positive list management. In other words, it will also draw up a positive list of tax-free categories that people on Hainan Island can buy when they are not on an outlying island. This list is in preparation and will be published in due course upon completion.
“The positive list of duty-free goods purchased by island residents has a more troubling issue, and that is whether the positive list of duty-free goods for island residents includes automobiles.” At present, there is no more definitive statement on this subject. Hainan’s duty-free goods operator said: “We have to wait to see the final positive list.”
The information obtained by the reporter from the authorized channels shows that the relevant tax exemption policies are being formulated for imported cars for their operation and that they will be published at the appropriate time; And whether cars imported for personal use can be exempted, the relevant national policies have yet to be clarified.
Shi Zongwei also brought up this point in an interview on the official website of the General Administration of Customs.
The inhabitants of the island will undoubtedly mean a greater increase in customer groups for companies that operate in duty-free goods. According to Haikou Customs statistics, from July 1 to October 31, the Hainan Outlying Islands Duty Free Policy was implemented for four months. Haikou Customs monitored the outlying island’s duty-free sales of 12.01 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 214.1%; the number of buyers increased by 1,783 million 58.8%; 12,869 million items were purchased, an increase of 139.7%. The volume of sales and the value of cosmetics rank first. The top three commodities by sales amount were cosmetics, watches and jewelry.
As the positive list of Hainan Island residents to buy duty-free products has not yet been released, there are also several possibilities for innovations in the outlying island’s duty-free business model, including the purchase of duty-free products by mail. The journalist’s information shows that customs have led tax-free companies and postal logistics companies to complete the design of the processes related to postal delivery and the updating and transformation of the information system. It can be implemented after the announcement of the outlying island tax exemption policy adjust and modify the take-off method. .
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