2021-10-15 Rule of Law Daily 7th Edition

Recently, the China-Chile customs AEO (certified operator) mutual recognition arrangement has been implemented. This is the first formal customs AEO mutual recognition arrangement implemented by China in South America.

“The company imports a large amount of wine from Chile. The mutual recognition of CIIC AEO is a’timely rain’. The many customs clearance conveniences provided by the customs of the two sides will help us actively respond to the impact of the epidemic and better expand foreign markets.” As a high-level customs certification company Chen Peng, general manager of Guangzhou Yangcheng Food Co., Ltd. said happily.

In recent years, the General Administration of Customs has deepened the reform of the credit management system and focused on building a new type of credit-based customs supervision mechanism. Focusing on important trading countries, we will make every effort to promote the process of AEO mutual recognition and cooperation. Up to now, China Customs has signed AEO mutual recognition arrangements (agreements) with 46 countries or regions in 20 economies including Singapore, South Korea, and the European Union. The number of mutually recognized countries or regions ranks first in the world. Customs investigations show that when Chinese AEO companies export to mutually recognized countries (regions), 73.6% of companies have significantly reduced their overseas customs clearance inspection rate, 77.3% of companies have significantly increased their overseas customs clearance speed, and 58.9% of companies have reduced their overseas customs clearance logistics costs.

Exploring the “Belt and Road” market weapon

“In the past six months after passing the customs AEO advanced certification, the export goods have been cleared faster, the procedures have been easier, and it has won several important customers. The company’s comprehensive competitiveness has reached a new level. In the first half of this year, the company’s export volume has increased by 38%. “Recently, Wang Jinwei, chairman of Zhejiang Tianpai Knitting Co., Ltd., said happily, holding the company’s semi-annual data sheet.

Zhejiang Tianpai Knitting Co., Ltd. is a seamless underwear manufacturer integrating independent design, production and foreign trade services. Since last year, affected by factors such as the global epidemic of the epidemic and the saturation of demand in traditional markets such as Europe and the United States, the pressure on enterprises to compete has been increasing, and there is an urgent need to explore emerging markets such as countries along the “Belt and Road”. Wang Jinwei found that when negotiating with foreign customers, many foreign customers value whether their suppliers have customs certification.

After learning about the urgent need for enterprises to apply for advanced AEO certification, Yiwu Customs, a subsidiary of Hangzhou Customs, selected certification experts as corporate coordinators to carry out precision training and key guidance in “Tianpai Knitting” to help companies sort out and standardize internal management processes, and from the system structure We will guide and standardize the business operations of enterprises, and comprehensively improve the level of enterprise trade safety management. At the end of 2020, “Tianpai Knitting” successfully passed the customs AEO advanced certification.

“AEO, a golden sign, has become a powerful tool for the company to open up the’Belt and Road’ market.” Wang Jinwei, who has obtained the sweetness from the AEO advanced certification, said for example, “Tianpai Knitting” was fighting for Israeli overseas customers with two other companies. The negotiation was once in a tug of war due to the fact that the strength indicators of the company and the competing companies were on par. The turning point occurred after the Israeli customer learned that “Tianpai Knitting” is an AEO certified company. Israel is China’s AEO mutual recognition country. Relying on the golden signboard of AEO advanced certification enterprise qualification, “Tianpai Knitting” finally won this overseas customer and successfully entered the Israeli market.

From January to August this year, the total foreign trade of 13 AEO-certified enterprises newly cultivated since 2020 in the Hangzhou customs supervision service area reached 14.92 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 57.42%.

Under the influence of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, shipping costs have risen sharply, and uncertainties in foreign markets have increased. In response to this, Shanghai Customs actively promoted the mutual recognition of AEO between China and the countries of the “Belt and Road” countries and its facilitation measures, and guided advanced certification companies to strengthen communication and cooperation with the customs and trading partners of the countries that jointly recognized the “Belt and Road” countries. Ports fully enjoy the convenience of AEO mutual recognition; do a good job in compliance training and other guidance work, coordinate and solve difficult problems in enterprise import and export customs clearance; give full play to the role of customs AEO liaison, and guide enterprises to adopt the “self-inspection result recognition model of advanced certification enterprises in the field of customs verification” “To reduce the burden on enterprises. From January to August this year, the import and export volume of Shanghai’s advanced certification enterprises to countries under the “Belt and Road Initiative” reached 699.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19%.

Reduce cross-border e-commerce customs clearance costs

“With the development of the global market, companies that have obtained the’AEO Advanced Certification’ will become VIPs for customs clearance, which will not only enable companies to expand the international market faster, provide customers with a better international logistics service experience, but also provide companies with further compliance development. This is a powerful help.” Hu Hong, China Operations Director of Tianjin ECM International Logistics Co., Ltd., said happily. Recently, the company successfully passed the customs AEO advanced certification, becoming the first inbound and outbound express mail operator with AEO advanced certification in Tianjin.

In order to further help cross-border e-commerce companies to fully enjoy the AEO policy dividends, Toray Customs, a subsidiary of Tianjin Customs, has carried out credit cultivation in enterprises for many times, and conducted guidance and cultivation through policy lectures and specially appointed “counselors” to achieve “one-to-one”. Precise guidance, timely answers to difficult questions of enterprises, help enterprises to grasp the latest policies, and comprehensively improve the level of standardized management.

“This increase in credit ratings will not only enable us to enjoy preferential policies and convenient measures in terms of priority handling of cargo clearance procedures, reduction of inspection and spot checks, and simplification of formalities, but also enable us to also participate in countries and regions that have signed AEO mutual recognition agreements. Enjoying the highest level of convenience for customs clearance has greatly reduced the company’s customs clearance costs, shortened the customs clearance time, improved the overall logistics operation efficiency, and provided tremendous support and motivation for the company’s further development.” Hu Hong said with deep feeling.

It is understood that Tianjin Customs takes the cultivation of corporate credit as the starting point, continuously strengthens and improves corporate cultivation assistance measures, and vigorously cultivates more high-quality enterprises to become advanced customs certified enterprises. Since the beginning of this year, Tianjin Customs has carried out “one-to-one” exclusive cultivation for 54 enterprises, concentrated cultivation for 15 enterprises, and “cloud cultivation” for two enterprises. Up to now, there are 166 high-level certified enterprises in Tianjin, and the cumulative import and export volume has accounted for more than a quarter of the total import and export volume in Tianjin.

Credit cultivation enhances the ability to resist risks

Guangdong Sili International Group Trade Development Co., Ltd. is a traditional foreign trade enterprise in Guangzhou. The company’s knowledge and skills, business model, and profit structure are relatively simple, and there are unstable shortcomings in customer base and risk control capabilities. However, the company has long-term and stable cooperative relations with financial and trade agencies, and has the ability to improve supply chain service quality and trade convenience Level of potential.

In response, Guangzhou Customs preached to the company on the theme of corporate credit cultivation and supervision model innovation, helping companies build a three-level risk prevention and control system and a management platform based on customer classification management, establish a standardized management system, and guide the company Transform to the direction of comprehensive foreign trade service business, and cultivate the company to become an AEO advanced certified company.

“Since the company’s transformation into a comprehensive foreign trade service company, the trade model has been optimized, and the customs credit cultivation has guided us to improve our management and management, so that we can better leverage the advantages of connecting small, medium and micro enterprises to enhance the momentum of exporting goods.” The person in charge Wang Hui said that the newly established comprehensive foreign trade service platform not only provides customers with one-stop customs clearance, foreign exchange, tax rebate and other services, but also realizes real-time tracking and monitoring of goods, the logistics system has been further improved, and the ability to resist risks has been further enhanced. Since becoming a customs AEO advanced certification company at the end of 2020, the company’s “friend circle” has been expanding, with nearly 200 regular customers, and the value of exports in the second quarter of this year was nearly 60 million yuan, an increase of about 46% from the previous quarter.

It is understood that there are currently 35 comprehensive foreign trade service companies in the Guangzhou Customs District, and 20 companies have been cultivated as AEOs, and high-credit companies account for more than 57%. In the first half of 2021, these comprehensive foreign trade service companies served and undertook the export business of more than 18,000 small, medium and micro foreign trade companies, with a total export value of 10.24 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 50%.

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The AEO system is the abbreviation of Authorized Economic Operator. This system is an important system of the World Customs Organization. A system for enterprises to provide preferential customs clearance. After the implementation of the mutual recognition arrangement, the AEO companies of the two countries will enjoy the convenience of reducing document review and cargo inspection rates, speeding up customs clearance, implementing priority inspections, and establishing liaisons to communicate and solve problems encountered by enterprises in customs clearance. measure.

Article source: General Administration of Customs