Health & Beauty

"What tax reduction and exemption policies can we use?" "Vaccine storage and transportation requirements are very high, can the customs clearance be faster?" A few days ago, a policy publicity event for biopharmaceutical enterprises was held in the Tianzhu Customs Conference Room, which is affiliated to Beijing Customs. , 16 key international trade biopharmaceutical enterprises in the city participated in this event.

Since the beginning of this year, in response to the problems encountered by enterprises in customs clearance, the Beijing Customs Department and Tianzhu Customs have sent a "one-to-one" policy service package to break through the difficulties in importing pharmaceutical products, help enterprises to revitalize funds, and stimulate new opportunities for the development of international trade. kinetic energy.

Statistics show that from January to September, Tianzhu Customs inspected and released imported pharmaceutical products of US$21.08 billion, a year-on-year increase of 34.9%, and pharmaceutical imports accounted for one-fifth of the country's total.

At the end of 2021, the targeted drug dacomitinib tablet for the treatment of advanced lung cancer was successfully included in the national medical insurance list of the year through the negotiation of the medical insurance catalog. Benefiting from this, the terminal price of the drug has fallen by 84% this year. This is major positive news for patients. However, Yang Haining, head of Keyuan Xinhai (Beijing) Medical Supplies Trading Co., Ltd., as the national import agent of the drug, was a little worried: "With so many price adjustments, it will take time for customs price determination, will it affect the speed of customs clearance? Patients are all looking forward to medicines to treat their illnesses, but they can't wait..."

Upon learning of this news, Tianzhu Customs launched a rapid price review procedure to provide the company with "hands-on" price professional identification services to help companies accurately declare the dutiable value. With the help of Tianzhu Customs, more than 17,000 boxes of dacomitinib tablets were quickly cleared through customs, and patients also benefited from the price reduction of the drug for the first time.

For enterprises that have difficulties in production and operation due to the impact of the epidemic, Beijing Customs also provides a service policy of deferred payment and late payment fee reduction. Enterprises can defer tax payment for a maximum of three months, and at the same time exempt the corresponding late payment fee, effectively reducing the pressure on enterprises’ funds. . Wang Wei, deputy director of the Beijing Customs Tariff Department, said: "We review the application materials submitted by the enterprise for overdue fines reduction and exemption as soon as possible, and sign a tax overdue fines reduction and exemption implementation agreement with the enterprise to help the enterprise settle all the follow-up customs duties in the shortest possible time. formalities."

Benefiting from this, Zhifei Airport (Beijing) International Trade Co., Ltd. successfully applied for the deferral of tax payment of RMB 217 million, and the late payment fee was reduced or exempted by RMB 5.995 million.

At the main customs bay of Tianzhu Comprehensive Bonded Zone, 40 pharmaceutical cold chain transport vehicles have also achieved rapid customs clearance recently. Since then, these cold chain transport vehicles carrying 73 tons of imported testing reagents and medicines will go to 32 destinations across the country. As the owner of this batch of testing reagents, Zhu Zhiguang, head of Shanghai Pharmaceuticals Cardinal (Beijing) Co., Ltd., said: "During this period of time, it is difficult to find a cabin for international cargo flights. It was severely compressed, and it seems that the delivery will be delayed. Fortunately, Tianzhu Customs is powerful enough to provide us with a full range of service guarantees from the early morning to ensure the delivery on time.”

It is understood that this batch of goods has a total of 1,305 pieces, loaded with 421 pallets, and the total price is 50 million US dollars. It only took 6 hours from the landing and unloading, the release of the entry area, and the loading and delivery area.

"We will simultaneously advance various measures such as 'advance declaration', 'two-step declaration' and 7 x 24-hour appointment clearance, appointment inspection, etc., so that the timeliness of customs clearance can be greatly improved." Zhang Jizhou, deputy director of Tianzhu Customs, introduced, " For imported goods with difficult tariff problems, Tianzhu Customs provides pre-ruling services such as valuation, classification, and origin to solve the 'difficult and pain points' in the declaration of tax-related factors of enterprises. At the same time, it has opened a green channel for in-the-event assessment appointments, which requires more storage conditions. High-quality goods adopt the guarantee release mode to speed up customs clearance, effectively improve the port business environment, and enable enterprises to obtain real convenience."

"Sinopharm Group is the largest pharmaceutical and health industry group in the country. It has several import and export subsidiaries. In the past, when handling customs duty guarantee business, each subsidiary needed to apply for a customs guarantee letter from the bank." Sinopharm Airport (Beijing) International Trade Tang Peng, the manager of the limited company, said, "The use of the Group's financial company guarantee model not only makes the process easier, but also greatly improves the efficiency of customs clearance. It can save more than 40 million yuan of capital every year, which provides a strong guarantee for us to further develop the market. "

Funds are an important support for the survival and development of enterprises, and ensuring the stability of the capital chain is also the focus of helping enterprises to bail out. After Tianzhu Customs learned about the actual business situation and needs of the enterprises in the area, it dispatched a special person to connect with them as soon as possible, and "delivered" the guarantee policy to the door: Compared with the traditional guarantee model, the group guarantee does not require mortgage, does not occupy the cash flow of the enterprise, and the application is convenient. Significantly reduce the cost of enterprises and ensure the smooth operation of the supply chain of large group enterprises.

Zhang Jizhou, deputy head of Tianzhu Customs, introduced: "Through the green channel for guarantees, we implement the work mode of 'real-time acceptance, same-day disposal, and return visits for effects', further simplifying the application process for enterprises on the basis of the original policy, and expanding the scope of application of guarantees. Coordinate and solve business problems in the field of tax guarantee for enterprises, realize 'multiple guarantees are optional, one guarantee is multi-purpose, territorial filing, and national use', revitalize funds for international trade enterprises, and solve the difficulties of survival."