We will promote the adoption of 56 measures to stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment and improve customs clearance facilitation

CCTV news: On October 13, the State Council held a press conference on import and export in the first three quarters. Spokesman of news of the General Administration of Customs, director-general of the department of statistics and analysis Li Kuiwen introduced when answer questions from reporters, resolutely implement the customs of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council decision deployment, cohesion "six stability" six bao ", "well-planned way port epidemic prevention and control and promote the steady growth of foreign trade work, further put forward the article 56 foreign trade, foreign investment measures, improve customs clearance facilitation.

First, reform and innovation will facilitate trade. We will comprehensively promote facilitation measures such as "two-step declaration", "declaration in advance", "green passage" and exemption from on-site inspection to improve customs clearance efficiency. In September, the overall clearance time for imports and exports was 35.02 hours and 1.86 hours respectively, 64.04% and 84.87% lower than that in 2017, both of which have decreased for five consecutive months.

Second, try every means to reduce enterprise costs. By reducing or exempting import delayed declaration fees, late fees, and deferred tax interest on domestic sales of processing trade goods, it has reduced or exempted enterprises and saved nearly 200 million yuan in total. In particular, small and medium-sized enterprises account for about 70 percent of import and export enterprises that use tariff guarantee insurance.

Third, we will accelerate trials to promote the development of new forms of business. We will comprehensively promote regulatory measures for the return of goods exported by cross-border e-commerce enterprises, and carry out trials of exporting goods from cross-border e-commerce enterprises to enterprises. We will encourage trials of market procurement and trade in the central and western regions and northeast China. In the first three quarters of this year, the import and export through the cross-border e-commerce management platform of customs reached 187.39 billion yuan, up 52.8 percent, and the market procurement and export reached 509.86 billion yuan, up 35.5 percent.

Fourth, we will take multiple measures to forge new heights in opening up. We will give strong support to the construction of hainan Free Trade Port and Yangshan Comprehensive Bonded Zone, step up efforts to innovate, replicate and promote the customs supervision system in pilot free trade zones, and fully implement global maintenance and remanufacturing operations in comprehensive bonded zones. In the first three quarters of this year, imports and exports from the country's comprehensive bonded zones reached 2.34 trillion yuan, up 15.1 percent, 14.4 percentage points higher than the growth rate of foreign trade.

Fifth, we will do our best to ensure the import of key products. We continued to expand the range of imported countries and commodities, approved 5,965 more foreign registered enterprises, and strengthened the guarantee for the import of meat, grain, aquatic products, fruits and other important agricultural products and food. In the first three quarters of this year, meat and grain imports totaled 162.65 billion yuan and 253.36 billion yuan respectively, up 87.3 percent and 20.7 percent year-on-year.

In the next step, the customs will deepen reform and innovation and make every effort to ensure the "six stability" and "six guarantees", and make every effort to ensure the effective implementation of the 56 measures to further stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment, so as to promote the steady development and quality improvement of foreign trade and make positive contribution to the formation of a new development pattern.