□ our reporter Liu Xin
After the implementation of RCEP, the approved exporters can issue their own declaration of origin, arrange exports more flexibly and enjoy the agreement preferences. In this regard, di Jie, deputy director of the Customs Department of the General Administration of customs, reminded enterprises that "the premise of realizing tax reduction and zero tariff is that the products comply with RCEP rules of origin and need to be declared according to the customs requirements of the importing party". To this end, the customs also comprehensively upgraded the informatization application of origin management, added functions such as the issuance of ASEAN certificate of origin and ASEAN mobile certificate, migrated and integrated all free trade agreements, and realized the "single window" to complete all businesses of origin information management. According to di Jie, in order to help enterprises integrate into RCEP "circle of friends" as soon as possible, the General Administration of Customs has guided local customs to actively carry out RCEP rule interpretation and training guidance for import and export enterprises. At present, 980 enterprise trainings have been organized.
In order to ensure the smooth sailing of the world's largest free trade zone, customs in many places have put the publicity of RCEP rules of origin and tariff concessions in a prominent position as an important work, providing trade guidance for import and export enterprises and promoting the high-quality development of foreign trade under their jurisdiction.
At present, Guangxi is building a South automobile export manufacturing base facing ASEAN. There are 21 enterprises exporting automobile products to RCEP member countries in Liuzhou alone. As early as February 2021, Nanning customs established the "RCEP Nanning Research Office", analyzed more than 140000 commodity tax numbers in the tariff concession commitment table of RCEP countries, and put forward opinions and suggestions on optimizing the industrial chain, supply chain and logistics chain. "In order to effectively grasp the major opportunities brought by RCEP to the automotive industry after its entry into force, we and the Department of industry and information technology of the autonomous region jointly carried out the research on the rules of origin accumulation of RCEP and sorted out the tax reduction arrangements for complete vehicles and parts in various countries." Jiang Zhihuan, director of Nanning customs tariff department, said. Xin Junqiang, director of the International Business Department of Guangxi Automobile Group, who participated in the special event, said that the implementation of RCEP made them see the great potential of the ASEAN automobile market.
"RCEP member countries share a large share of goods trade with Shanxi, and have strong economic and trade complementarity. They have broad cooperation space in digital economy, infrastructure construction, equipment manufacturing, coal chemical industry, characteristic Shenzhen Agricultural Products Group Co.Ltd(000061) development and so on." Yuncheng customs director Xu Weidong said. To this end, in 2021, Taiyuan customs organized business experts to carry out extensive publicity and interpretation of RCEP rules of origin. During the epidemic, they carried out comprehensive and systematic interpretation of RCEP to enterprises through online training and exchange platforms such as nailing and Tencent meetings, as well as offline centralized training. A total of 21 online and 5 offline trainings were held, and the heads of relevant foreign trade enterprises 983 person times of origin visa applicants and customs broker personnel participated in the training; By means of wechat push, telephone guidance, on-site interpretation and distribution of brochures, the backbone of customs business has fully interacted with enterprises, helped enterprises make full, flexible and good use of RCEP related policies, effectively reduced product export costs and improved the competitiveness of import and export enterprises in the international market.
RCEP member countries are also an important market for foreign trade enterprises in Shandong, and have trade exchanges with advantageous foreign trade industries such as textile, clothing, Shenzhen Agricultural Products Group Co.Ltd(000061) , machinery and equipment in Shandong Province. In order to improve the understanding and utilization ability of RCEP policies and preferential measures, Tai'an customs has conducted collective learning for many times, carefully studied the contents of RCEP agreement, invited free trade experts to analyze policies, focused on analyzing the opportunities and impact of RCEP implementation on Tai'an's foreign trade, organized enterprises under its jurisdiction to understand RCEP trade preferential policies, and carried out online training by using the service network of China free trade zone, Policy guidance was provided in many fields such as goods trade, cross-border e-commerce, rules of origin accumulation, service trade and intellectual property protection to help enterprises understand the pattern of the global trade system. In the first 11 months of 2021, the import and export value of enterprises in Tai'an district to RCEP countries was 11.015 billion yuan, an increase of 282.5% over the same period.
(International Business Daily)