China Guomen Times: Ningbo Customs issues Zhejiang Province's first China ASEAN Free Trade Area mobility certificate, stating 'significantly enhanced price competitiveness'

Recently, the Ningbo Free Trade Zone Customs under Ningbo Customs issued the first China ASEAN Free Trade Zone mobile certificate for Ningbo Zhejin Steel Co., Ltd. in Zhejiang Province. This certificate not only directly saves the enterprise over 200000 US dollars in tariff costs, but also significantly enhances the enterprise's ability to enjoy customs clearance benefits for goods within the ASEAN region.  
The China ASEAN Free Trade Area Movement Certificate is a type of certificate of origin used to confirm that goods originating from ASEAN member countries, when transported through China's customs to other member countries of the China ASEAN Free Trade Area, are always under customs supervision and have not undergone any other processing or handling except for loading, unloading, and handling. Based on this proof, the goods can enjoy corresponding free trade agreement tariff preferences in the final importing country, effectively reducing customs clearance costs and enhancing the competitiveness of the products in the ASEAN market.  
It is understood that this certificate involves a batch of coking coal imported from Indonesia and sold to the Vietnamese market after transit in the bonded zone. Without this proof, the high customs clearance costs of importing countries will squeeze profits, and our pricing advantage will be greatly reduced. Now that we have the flow proof, customers can directly enjoy tariff reductions, and our price competitiveness has significantly increased. Our trade operations are also more flexible, and we have more confidence in development, "said Lin Xufeng, manager of Ningbo Zhejin Steel Co., Ltd.  
In order to ensure the smooth issuance of the certificate, the Ningbo Free Trade Zone Customs took the initiative to provide targeted guidance on origin policies for enterprises, comprehensively interpreting policy points, application processes, and precautions, and guiding enterprises to standardize and improve their declaration materials. At the same time, we will open a "green channel" and expedite the review and release on weekends, transforming policy dividends into tangible development benefits for enterprises as soon as possible.  
Next, Ningbo Customs will continue to focus on the actual needs of enterprises, continuously optimize origin visa services, increase policy promotion and targeted assistance, promote various preferential policies for enterprises to directly enjoy, and help more foreign trade enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency, and expand international markets.