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'Wanting to be together and working together with enterprises' - Focusing on the demands and concerns of enterprises, customs has taken multiple measures to boost confidence in foreign trade

Further facilitate the processing of export tax refunds in international trade, allowing enterprises to receive tax refunds early and benefit early; Focusing on cultivating the growth of "specialized, refined, and innovative" enterprises, strengthening customs protection of intellectual property rights, and escorting innovative development of enterprises... In order to fully implement the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on optimizing the business environment, the General Administration of Customs has launched 16 measures to optimize the business environment within the scope of customs responsibilities, making customs contributions to creating a market-oriented, legalized, and internationalized first-class business environment, and further stabilizing social expectations, Boost confidence in foreign trade development.

At the regular press briefing held on June 13th, Wu Haiping, Director of the Comprehensive Business Department of the General Administration of Customs, said in response to a question from the reporter of the Economic Information Daily, "Are the policies and measures we have introduced good? Are they effective? The key is to see whether the enterprises have a strong sense of gain. The Customs deals with import and export enterprises in international trade every day, wants to work together with enterprises, and attaches great importance to studying and formulating assistance measures based on the actual needs of enterprises."

Wu Haiping further introduced that in the early stage, the customs conducted a lot of research and collected and sorted out the demands and concerns of many enterprises through various channels. The pain points and difficulties that enterprises pay attention to mainly focus on reducing costs and increasing convenience. This time, the customs has put forward many targeted measures to help enterprises reduce burden and increase efficiency. He summarized it as "three increases and one decrease", which means increasing the convenience of enterprises, enhancing their vitality, enhancing their services, and reducing their costs.

Specifically, in terms of increasing enterprise convenience, we will further facilitate the handling of export tax rebates in international trade, work with the State Administration of Taxation to promote the realization of "exemption from filling in" of enterprise export tax rebates Customs declaration and invoices, facilitate the declaration of enterprise export tax rebates, so that enterprises can get tax rebates early and benefit early. Focusing on the joint construction of the "the Belt and Road" countries (regions), we will continue to expand the scope of mutual recognition of customs "certified operators" (AEOs), and promote AEO enterprises to enjoy customs clearance facilities at home and abroad.

In terms of enhancing the vitality of enterprises, the first priority is to cultivate the growth of "specialized, refined, and innovative" enterprises. At the same time, we will strengthen the cultivation of advanced certification enterprises and strive to increase the number of advanced certification enterprises by 10% by the end of 2023 compared to the same period in 2022. The customs will also strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights with relevant departments, carry out the "Longteng Action 2023" and "Blue Net Action 2023", and escort the innovative development of enterprises.

In terms of enhancing enterprise services, in response to the "going global" needs of enterprises, we will strengthen technical trade measure consulting services, fully leverage the role of the WTO/TBT National Notification Consulting Center and the WTO/SPS National Notification Consulting Center, and actively assist enterprises in responding to unreasonable trade barriers. Continuously innovating digital statistical services for the public, publishing foreign trade data well, and providing decision-making references for enterprises to carry out international trade import and export and expand the international trade market.

In terms of reducing the cost of enterprises, we will further expand the scope of application of the proactive disclosure policy, give the enterprises that meet the requirements a lighter, mitigated or no administrative penalty, and reduce or exempt the payment of Late fee in accordance with the law. At the same time, we will help and guide enterprises to make full use of tax preferential policies, promote technological innovation, progress, and industrial transformation and upgrading. Further promote the high-quality implementation of RCEP, and service enterprises should fully enjoy the tariff benefits of the Free Trade Agreement.

How to implement these measures and reflect them on enterprises is also a key deployment point for customs. Wu Haiping stated that in order to fully unleash the policy dividend, the General Administration of Customs will focus on implementing the 16 articles from three aspects in the next step. Firstly, it is required that the national customs introduce detailed supporting measures tailored to local conditions, conduct in-depth investigation and research, respond to enterprise demands in a timely manner, and strengthen the synergistic effect of policy measures. The second is to consolidate and deepen the "customs director's door-to-door policy delivery" service, deepen the policy delivery, listen to opinions, solve difficult problems for enterprises, strengthen the promotion of policy measures, and targeted solutions to the actual difficulties faced by enterprises. The third is to strengthen feedback on the implementation of policy measures, requiring national customs to provide timely feedback on important situations in implementation, ensuring that policy measures are implemented and giving enterprises a more tangible sense of gain. (Transfer from: Economic Information Daily)