? ? ? ? Recently, Fuzhou Customs issued the “version 3.0” measures to further optimize the business environment and promote cross-border trade facilitation, and launched 18 measures to fully support enterprises to “fight the epidemic” and “promote development”, winning the “six stability and six protection”.

? ? ? ? It is understood that In 2018 and 2019, Fuzhou Customs issued 15 and 28 measures to improve cross-border trade facilitation in two consecutive years respectively, helping to continuously optimize the business environment of ports in Fujian province and improve cross-border trade facilitation level year by year. In the national business environment evaluation organized by the National Development and Reform Commission, fuzhou’s “cross-border trade” index has become the national benchmark for two consecutive years in 2019 and 2020. In order to further deepen the reform of cross-border trade facilitation and optimize the business environment at ports, Fuzhou Customs continued to introduce 18 measures to facilitate the high-level opening-up of Fujian.

? ? ? ? The 18 measures are mainly divided into four aspects. First, we will deepen innovation in enterprise supervision, deepen credit management of customs enterprises, carry out the reform of processing trade supervision for enterprise groups, and promote the “zero-run” mode of fast tax payment for cross-border e-commerce enterprises. Second, improve service enterprise efficiency, including running wisdom visa auxiliary system and realize the whole customs clearance process visualization service, promote the customs certificate of origin self-service printing into the local governments’ e government affairs “self-service, further facilitate customs duty exemption or reduction business, the establishment of fuzhou customs handling RCEP laboratory and tax research studio help enterprises to enjoy you. The third is to optimize the supervision mode, establish the coordination and cooperation mechanism between fuzhou and Xiamen for bulk import of mineral products, innovate the business of inland port export through customs, and promote the safety supervision mode of export lithium electric packaging product line. Fourth, we will carry out the reform of administrative examination and approval, cancel the registration of customs declaration enterprises and the administrative examination and approval for the inspection and identification of import and export commodities, and advance the reform of frontier port health examination and approval.

? ? ? ? According to Fuzhou Customs, compared with 2018’s focus on “customs inspection integration” and 2019’s emphasis on “efficiency improvement and cost reduction”, the 18 measures put more emphasis on regulatory system innovation and technological innovation. The innovations in the regulatory system include the reform of enterprise credit management system, the pilot promotion of the “zero errand” tax payment mode for cross-border e-commerce enterprises; Scientific and technological innovation mainly lies in the use of information technology to improve service effectiveness, such as realizing the visualized service of the whole process of customs clearance, launching the intelligent visa auxiliary system, promoting the self-printing of certificate of origin to be included in the “E-government” self-service of local governments, etc. Among them, the whole process visualization service of customs clearance has been selected as the 18th batch of innovative measures in Fujian Pilot Free Trade Zone and evaluated as the first in China.

? ? ? ? Fuzhou Customs said that the business environment is only in progress, never completed; There is no best, only better. This year is the “leapfrog development year” for Fuzhou Customs to achieve the overall goal of “building strong customs and creating samples”. Fuzhou Customs will continue to focus on promoting great development and strive to achieve great leapfrog.

Article source:FuZhuou Customs District P.R.China