Guangzhou Customs reduces customs clearance time of import and export goods by 60% to promote cross-border trade facilitation.
Customs officers of Guangzhou Customs instruct enterprise staff to use the customs self-service terminal to handle business.
Guangzhou customs officers inspect the production of dairy products in import and export enterprises. Photo courtesy of Guangzhou Customs
Is it cumbersome for export cosmetics manufacturers to go through customs filing procedures? How to go through customs clearance procedures? How to apply for cosmetic inspection? How to become a customs AEO enterprise? On August 30th, Guangzhou Customs held a special presentation on the policy of "Customs Entering Enterprises" and "How to Go Global for Cosmetic Enterprises", and answered questions on export cosmetics, customs credit management and other related policies throughout the chain. More than 100 representatives from more than 80 export cosmetics manufacturers returned home with full loads.
Since the beginning of this year, in order to further optimize the business environment and promote the facilitation of cross-border trade, Guangzhou Customs has organized more than 20 seminars on the credit system, and given special guidance on AEO standards to more than 2,000 enterprises. First, it has tried some measures such as simplifying the filing of export cosmetics manufacturers and "internet plus’s voluntary disclosure", such as "reducing licenses to facilitate people" and "promoting business with integrity", accelerating the promotion of "Internet+government services" and speeding up the construction of "smart customs". In August, the overall customs clearance time of Guangzhou Customs was 25.22 hours for imported goods and 2.71 hours for exported goods, both of which were reduced by more than 60% compared with 2017.
"One Form" to Complete Enterprise Filing
Make government services easier.
"The biggest feeling is that there are fewer materials to be handed in. Not only do you need to provide business-related materials, but you don’t need to submit the industrial and commercial business license. You only need a piece of A4 paper to print the Information Filing Form for Export Cosmetic Manufacturers," said Xu Yandan, a salesman of Guangdong Rubik’s Cube Cosmetic Technology Co., Ltd. On August 22nd, less than an hour after applying for filing with Tianhe Customs, which belongs to Guangzhou Customs, Xu Yandan only filled in a form and completed all the formalities of filing for export cosmetics manufacturers.
In order to further "reduce the license and facilitate the people", Guangzhou Customs went into the enterprise to carry out extensive investigation and research. In view of the problem that enterprises report a large number of application materials for the record of export cosmetics production enterprises, we will organize a special demonstration, try to simplify them first in the country, and make it clear that materials that can be replaced by online verification or notification of commitments, and that the customs can independently verify them do not need to be submitted to the customs repeatedly.
"Can ‘ Reduce the certificate ’ It’s because Guangzhou Customs has been promoting the informatization construction, connecting with the data of the local government’s commercial subject information platform, and exempting enterprises from submitting the verifiable enterprise market supervision (industry and commerce) registration information and unified social credit code repeatedly, "said Li Xiaohong, head of Tianhe Customs under Guangzhou Customs.
On the basis that the General Administration of Customs has simplified and integrated the deployment of the documents attached to the import declaration in the early stage, Guangzhou Customs has continued to streamline the documents and materials required for import and export customs clearance, and promoted paperless and online customs clearance. Cancel the enterprise-related list, invoice and paper declaration power of attorney, and the enterprise will provide it in a paperless way when it is really necessary for customs examination. Fully promote the application function of "single window" standard edition, realize enterprises to print export certificates of origin through "single window", promote the functions of tax reduction and exemption review and confirmation and follow-up management business application, and promote the self-printing of "special customs payment book" At the same time, electronic seals such as administrative seal and special seal for administrative license are fully enabled on the online processing platform of customs administrative examination and approval, effectively solving the "last mile" problem of online processing of customs administrative examination and approval.
Average customs clearance time of AEO enterprises in the first eight months
41% faster than ordinary enterprises
"After becoming an AEO advanced certification enterprise, on the one hand, the company’s customs clearance at home and abroad is more convenient, the delivery time is shortened, and the business reputation is more guaranteed; On the other hand, foreign customers are more willing to cooperate with customs high-credit enterprises, and our competitiveness in the international market has been improved. " Liu Jianhui, CEO of Guangdong Jianmei Aluminum Profile Factory (Group) Co., Ltd. said, "According to preliminary statistics, the company’s cargo inspection rate, customs clearance time and customs clearance cost have all decreased by about 40%. The total export trade in the first eight months of this year was about 14.46 million US dollars, an increase of about 21% year-on-year."
AEO is the abbreviation of "certified operator", and customs AEO enterprises include advanced certification enterprises and general certification enterprises. AEO system mainly certifies enterprises with high credit status, law-abiding degree and safety level through customs, and certified enterprises can get customs clearance facilities, such as giving priority to customs clearance procedures, reducing the rate of goods inspection, offering preferential tax guarantee, setting up coordinators to solve problems encountered in customs clearance, greatly shortening customs clearance time and enjoying joint incentives from relevant state departments. Up to now, China Customs has achieved AEO mutual recognition with 41 countries and regions in 14 economies, including Singapore, South Korea, European Union, Switzerland, New Zealand, Israel and Japan, and given each other convenient measures for AEO enterprises.
Liang Huiqi, director of the Enterprise Management and Inspection Department of Guangzhou Customs, said that becoming an AEO advanced certification enterprise is equivalent to getting a "green pass" for international trade. Customs in different countries can give preferential and convenient measures to AEO enterprises in the other country through AEO mutual recognition system. In this way, whether Chinese enterprises "go out" or foreign goods "are brought in", it is more convenient and time-saving, safe, fast and low-cost.
The data shows that this year is 1-mdash; In August, the average import clearance time of AEO enterprises in Guangzhou customs clearance area was 4.16 hours, 41% faster than that of general credit enterprises. At present, the number of AEO enterprises in Guangzhou customs area has reached 1217, 1-mdash; In August, the import and export value exceeded $66 billion, accounting for more than 53% of the total import and export value of enterprises in the customs area. Guangzhou Customs also cooperated with 33 local government departments to implement 20 joint incentive measures, and 376 AEO enterprises enjoyed such conveniences as giving priority to export tax rebates.
"Active disclosure" encourages enterprises to be more law-abiding.
Implementing "Trust Management" to Reduce Burden and Increase Efficiency
"In the process of internal audit, the company found that a charge to be paid was related to imported goods, but it was not determined whether to pay when the goods were imported, so it was not declared to the customs. After discovering the problem, I didn’t know how to deal with it. Later, I learned about the customs when I attended the presentation ‘ Voluntary disclosure ’ The system immediately submitted the self-inspection report as required. After strict examination by the customs, the administrative punishment was exempted according to law. " Liang Guifen, manager of Guangzhou Jebsen Beverage (China) Co., Ltd. said.
Liang Guifen believes that "voluntary disclosure" gives enterprises the opportunity to take the initiative to correct mistakes, and also reduces the impact of omissions on the company’s operations. In April this year, the company voluntarily disclosed the royalties involved in the beer and other goods it imported in 2018, and after accounting by the customs inspection department, it voluntarily paid more than 9 million yuan in taxes. Because it met the conditions of "voluntary disclosure", Guangzhou Customs exempted it from administrative punishment according to the Customs Inspection Regulations.
The "voluntary disclosure" system implemented by the customs encourages enterprises to report to the customs in writing on their own initiative the errors that are not in conformity with the customs management regulations and are not found by the customs after self-inspection by enterprises. Customs can provide preferential policies such as reducing or exempting tax late fees and administrative penalties for law-abiding and self-disciplined enterprises according to the law, which not only improves the efficiency of customs administrative law enforcement, but also greatly encourages enterprises to consciously abide by the law and is conducive to creating a good business environment.
"We launched ‘ in August. Internet plus voluntarily disclosed ’ , online processing makes the process clearer, the communication between enterprises and enterprises more efficient, and improves the enterprise ‘ Voluntary disclosure ’ The enthusiasm. " Wang Lei, Deputy Chief of Inspection Business Management Section of Enterprise Management and Inspection Department of Guangzhou Customs, introduced. In the first eight months of this year, Guangzhou Customs accepted 67 cases of "voluntary disclosure" by enterprises, involving about 31.67 million yuan in taxes.
In order to encourage enterprises to be honest and law-abiding, Guangzhou Customs also implements trust management for enterprises in the customs area, further clarifies the work related to the "voluntary disclosure" system and fault-tolerant mechanism, and does not record customs declaration errors for "declare in advance" customs declarations that meet the prescribed conditions. The operation time for customs to review the application for customs declaration error review has been reduced to an average of about 20 minutes, which has effectively reduced the burden and increased efficiency for enterprises. So far, 601 relevant customs declarations have been reviewed for errors, and the number of applications for review by enterprises has increased by 23% year-on-year.
"Online Customs" and China Unicom’s customs clearance are deeper.
Government service "Guangdong saves trouble"
On July 19th, as the customs officers of Foshan Customs Office in Gaoming, a subsidiary of Guangzhou Customs, obtained the bonded goods data of Guangdong Yida Textile Co., Ltd. on the special government service (Guangzhou) system of "internet plus Customs", Guangzhou Customs successfully connected the ERP system of customs networked supervision enterprises with "online customs" for the first time.
Enterprise Resource Planning, also known as "enterprise resource planning", refers to the establishment of an enterprise management system based on computer information system, which integrates material resources, human resources, financial resources and information resources.
"Through ‘ Online Customs ’ It is very convenient to handle customs business, but before that, we still need to submit the inventory data of the electronic account book verification cycle to the customs business site when the electronic account book expires, and because of the wide variety of bonded goods in our company, the long production process and the large amount of data, every time we submit the data, we must have special personnel to follow up. " Mai Zhiwei, manager of Guangdong Yida Textile Co., Ltd. said, "This time, our ERP system and ‘ Online Customs ’ Networking docking, as long as the enterprise is turned on for 5 minutes, the customs can grab the required business data online, which reduces the time of going to and from the scene, and also avoids human errors for us. The saved manpower, financial resources and time can make us more focused on production and operation. "
Recently, Guangzhou Customs has actively promoted the docking of "online customs" with Guangdong’s "digital government" construction project and achieved initial results. Six government service items, such as "printing without registration certificate for enterprises", "processing result without registration certificate for resident offices" and "application for cancellation of resident offices", have been integrated into Guangdong government service self-service terminal, and two platforms, such as Guangzhou inbound and outbound postal express customs clearance inquiry and Guangzhou cross-border e-commerce goods customs clearance inquiry, have been successfully docked with the mobile phone terminal.
The relevant person in charge of Guangzhou Customs said that Guangzhou Customs will implement the work arrangements of the General Administration of Customs and Guangdong Province to enhance cross-border trade facilitation, persist in striving for progress while maintaining stability, and further optimize processes, streamline documents, improve efficiency, reduce costs, create an honest and law-abiding business environment and promote cross-border trade facilitation on the existing basis.
Written by: Chen Xiao Guan Yue