Make good use of 'paper gold' to expand foreign trade routes
At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, workers were busy loading boxes of bamboo straws onto trucks in the factory area of Anhui Hongye Group. After passing the inspection of Chizhou Customs under Hefei Customs, this batch of products will be sent to South Korea.
Our products are exported to more than 110 countries and regions. Last year, we exported bamboo straws, bamboo sticks, bamboo fiber lunch boxes and other bamboo products worth 430 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15%, "said Shi Tianyu, the foreign trade manager of Anhui Hongye Group. Last year, our exports to South Korea increased by nearly 60%, and it is expected to continue to maintain high-speed growth this year. ”
It is reported that in order to assist enterprises in seizing the global opportunity of "replacing plastic with bamboo", Chizhou Customs has opened a "green channel" to provide support for enterprises in inspection and quarantine, customs clearance, intellectual property customs protection, etc., guiding enterprises to standardize quarantine and pest control treatment, strengthen source control and improve product quality, and achieve "immediate reporting, inspection and release" through new regulatory models such as "direct loading upon arrival", fully releasing policy dividends such as rules of origin and tariff reductions, and reducing comprehensive costs of enterprise tariffs, logistics, warehousing, etc. by more than 30%. Last year, we issued 439 certificates of origin under the China Korea Free Trade Agreement for export enterprises, a year-on-year increase of 26%. The visa amount exceeded 130 million yuan, which can reduce import tariffs by about 6 million yuan for enterprises, "said the relevant person in charge of Chizhou Customs.
The certificate of origin is known as the "paper gold" and is an important document for export products to enjoy tariff preferential treatment abroad. Since last year, Anhui has continuously optimized its business environment and promoted policies on origin, helping enterprises fully enjoy the benefits of free trade agreement policies.
By 2025, the company's export value of household storage batteries to Australia will reach 360 million yuan. With the certificate of origin issued by customs, the original 5% Australian import tariff will be reduced to 0, "Li Ka, the customs officer of Sunshine Power Co., Ltd., told reporters." Thanks to the China Australia Free Trade Agreement certificate of origin, nearly 18.31 million yuan in import tariffs were directly saved for household storage batteries exported to Australia last year
What surprised Li Ka even more was: "Previously, it took 2 working days to get the certificate, but now it can be printed out in 2 minutes by self-service. The efficient and high-quality service allows us to fully enjoy the policy dividends
In order to enable enterprises to efficiently enjoy benefits, Luzhou Customs under Hefei Customs promotes the application of "self-service printing+paperless declaration", connecting the electronic processing of customs origin business "last mile", and basically realizing the online processing of export origin certificates throughout the entire process; Build and upgrade an "intelligent verification" platform for certificates of origin, utilizing human-computer interaction to achieve "instant signing" of certificates of origin. The proportion of intelligent verification for certificates of origin has reached over 70%, and the self-service printing rate has increased from 85% in 2024 to 93%.
According to statistics, by 2025, Luzhou Customs will issue about 80000 certificates of origin, a year-on-year increase of 20%. The value of goods benefiting enterprises will be about 39.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 40%, helping enterprises enjoy import tax incentives of over 1.9 billion yuan.