Fengtai customs officials went to the production line of textile production enterprises in the jurisdiction to conduct on-the-spot investigations. Photo by Hou Lili
China News Service, Beijing, May 27th (Reporter Xu Jing) The reporter learned from Beijing Customs on the 26th that from January to April this year, the Beijing Customs District issued a total of 1,659 export certificates of origin under RCEP, with a value of 81.342 million US dollars, a year-on-year An increase of 67.2% and 21.6% respectively; the value of goods enjoyed under the imported RCEP item was 16.407 million US dollars, and the preferential tax was 3.424 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 156.2% and 148.5% respectively
As the free trade agreement with the largest population and the largest economic and trade scale, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) has effectively helped foreign trade companies stabilize orders, expand markets, and reduce costs since its implementation on January 1, 2022 , Improve efficiency.
Since the beginning of this year, Beijing Customs has further deepened version 2.0 of the “Four Excellences, Four Promotions and Promotion of Five Sons” service project, and targeted policies and precise services have jointly promoted the RCEP “Circle of Friends” trade potential to accelerate the release. From January to April, the Beijing Customs District issued a total of 1,659 export certificates of origin under RCEP, with a value of 81.342 million US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 67.2% and 21.6% respectively. The value of goods under this item is 16.407 million US dollars, and the preferential tax is 3.424 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 156.2% and 148.5% respectively. The main imported commodities are copper products, electric motors, sake, etc.
Fengtai customs officers investigated the RCEP benefits of export textiles in foreign trade enterprises. Photo by Hou Lili
In the workshop of Beijing Kuailu Weaving Co., Ltd., rows of modern hosiery machines are operating efficiently. After weaving, sewing, shaping, packaging and other processes, these products will be exported to ASEAN, Japan and other countries with the RCEP certificate of origin in a few days. Japan, South Korea and other countries and regions can enjoy the preferential tax rate of the export destination country.
“The customs has formulated a preferential plan of ‘one enterprise, one policy’ for us through the activity of ‘customs chief sends policies to the door’, guiding us to make full use of the RCEP preferential policies. From January to April this year, the company applied for a total of 106 RCEP certificates of origin. The value of exported goods is more than 40 million yuan, and the value of exported goods is more than 400,000 yuan in the destination country.” Wang Dongxun, manager of the company’s trade department, said that under the guidance of the customs, the company has skillfully used the international trade “single window” to realize self-service printing of certificates, greatly reducing the cost of certificates. the export time of the goods.
Zhou Xiaoying, chief of the comprehensive business section of Fengtai Customs under Beijing Customs, introduced that since the implementation of RCEP, the customs has extensively collected the core demands and opinions and suggestions of enterprises through investigations, and carried out online + offline policy training in combination with the “customs policy into thousands of households” activity, providing services for the jurisdiction Key enterprises provide tailor-made customized benefit plans and targeted assistance measures, and continue to promote self-service printing of certificates of origin, nearby visas and other measures to benefit enterprises and the people, so that enterprises in the jurisdiction can keep abreast of RCEP-related policies without leaving home. In order to expand overseas markets with the help of policy dividends.
After RCEP enters into force for the Philippines on June 2, all 15 member countries included in RCEP will complete the entry into force procedures and can implement tariff concessions with each other. The agreement has entered a new stage of full implementation, and the dividends of preferential policies will continue to expand.
In the next step, Beijing Customs will seize new opportunities for full implementation and further leverage the role of the agreement in stabilizing foreign trade, foreign investment, and promoting high-quality development. On the one hand, actively carry out research to find out the facts and come up with practical measures, and formulate “one policy for one industry” and “one policy for one enterprise” to help enterprises seize the opportunity of RCEP and fully enjoy tax dividends; on the other hand, further promote the self-service printing of certificates of origin To ensure that enterprises obtain the certificate of origin as soon as possible, and cultivate more qualified enterprises to become “approved exporters”, helping enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency in the whole process of taxation, documentation, customs clearance, etc. (over)