Notice of Beijing Customs on Printing and Distributing 27 Specific Measures for Beijing Customs to Optimize Business Environment

Jing Guan zong fa [2023] No.54

All units and departments of this customs:

　　In order to thoroughly study and implement the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the New Era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th Party Congress, fully implement the major decision-making arrangements made by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on optimizing the business environment, further implement the relevant requirements of the "16 Measures for Customs to Optimize the Business Environment" issued by the General Administration of Customs, and combine the actual economic and social development of the capital to continuously create a "domestic leading and world-class" business environment in Beijing, Beijing Customs has studied and formulated the "27 Specific Measures for Beijing Customs to Optimize the Business Environment", which is hereby issued. The relevant requirements are hereby notified as follows:

　　First, improve the station and strengthen policy coordination.

　　All units and departments should effectively improve their political positions, proceed from the height of stressing politics and the overall situation, thoroughly implement the 27 Specific Measures of Beijing Customs to Optimize the Business Environment, and organically combine them with the 22 measures of the 2023 Beijing Customs Special Action to Promote Trade Facilitation and the 26 measures to promote Beijing’s high-level opening and high-quality development, and make overall plans to ensure that all measures achieve pragmatic results.

　　Second, pay close attention to implementation and form a joint effort.

　　All units and departments should strengthen the awareness of "a game of chess" and form a working mechanism of performing their duties, grasping and managing together and promoting together. All functional departments should take the initiative to do a good job of up-and-down linkage and left-and-right coordination, and promptly guide the scene to solve practical problems. In case of difficult problems in the process of implementing policies and measures, it is necessary to report to the relevant departments of the General Administration for instructions at the first time. At the same time, it is necessary to carry out policy evaluation in a timely manner, track the effectiveness, and timely form our experience, typical cases and policy suggestions that can be popularized and effective. All customs offices should focus on the concerns of market participants and the society, and do a good job in the implementation of various tasks. They should not only do a good job in the "prescribed actions" of various tasks, but also boldly explore the "optional actions" that are in line with reality, so as to strive for more highlights and more results.

　　Third, strengthen research and release policy dividends

　　All units and departments should study and implement the theme education of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era, carry out in-depth investigation and study, understand the needs of enterprises in various forms, and get through the "last mile" of serving enterprises. In accordance with the requirements of the Notice of the General Business Department of the General Administration of Customs on Relevant Matters Concerning the Implementation of Article 16 on Optimizing the Business Environment of Customs (Comprehensive Letter [2023] No.67), we should comprehensively utilize traditional media and new media, and combine the activities of "sending the policy to the door", "sending 100 cadres to the grassroots" and "bringing the customs policy into thousands of households" to carry out classified publicity and training for different enterprise groups and the public, so that enterprises can listen.

　　I hereby inform you.

Beijing Customs　　　　

June 29, 2023　　

27 Specific Measures for Beijing Customs to Optimize Business Environment

　　First, continuously improve the efficiency of cross-border logistics

　　(1) Deepen the reform of "direct lifting by boat" and "direct loading at port", further optimize the mode and improve the quality, improve the participation and awareness of enterprises on the principle of respecting the wishes of enterprises, and promote the expansion of "direct lifting by boat" and "direct loading at port". Support Beijing airport to explore the pilot mode of "direct lifting" and "direct loading". (Responsible department: Supervision Department)

　　(2) Give further play to the advantages of territorial supervision, and give priority to inspection and quarantine of qualified agricultural products if they hit the operation instructions of territorial inspection and inspection, according to the application of enterprises. Carry out the "5+2" scheduled inspection, organize all subordinate customs to set up and make public the local inspection appointment telephone number, and timely carry out the inspection of goods according to the appointment time according to the application of enterprises, so as to reduce the waiting time of enterprises. (Responsible department: Inspection Office)

　　Two, support the import of advanced technology and equipment, special items.

　　(3) Optimize the import supervision and inspection process, and comprehensively promote the mode of monitoring and inspection of high-tech goods such as vacuum packaging. Strengthen policy propaganda and guide qualified enterprises to apply for high-tech monitoring and inspection. Strengthen information exchange and coordination with local government departments, standardize enterprises in the jurisdiction to fill in application materials and carry out preliminary filing. Track and evaluate the import and export control inspection of enterprises participating in the control inspection mode of high-tech goods such as vacuum packaging, and increase the sense of acquisition of high-tech enterprises. (Responsible department: Risk Control Branch)

　　(four) to carry out in-depth investigation and study, to do a good job of policy interpretation, to provide guidance services for the relevant enterprises to handle tax reduction and exemption procedures, so that they should be exempted. (Responsible department: Customs Office)

　　(five) to cooperate with the General Administration to improve the functions of the examination and approval and analysis system for entry-exit health and quarantine of special goods. Further promote the "intelligent approval" policy for special items and realize "zero waiting" for the approval of low-risk special items. Improve the risk assessment process and standards for high-risk special goods, and promote the application of "one increase, one decrease and one fixation" measures. (Responsible department: Health Inspection Office)

　　III. Promoting the import and export of agricultural, food and energy minerals

　　(six) to cooperate with the General Administration of agricultural products risk assessment and quarantine access, and promote the diversification of agricultural products imports. (Responsible department: Animal and Plant Inspection Office)

　　(seven) to meet the needs of industrial development, and actively strive for the innovation policy support of animal and plant quarantine system from the General Administration to help the export of agricultural products in the customs area. (Responsible department: Animal and Plant Inspection Office)

　　(eight) to implement the diversification strategy of food imports and promote the stability of the international food supply chain. Cooperate with the General Administration to carry out the pre-entry evaluation of meat products exported from Tunisia, Sudan and Morocco and the entry evaluation of aquatic products exported from Tunisia, and do a good job of access control from the source. To undertake the registration review task of overseas food production enterprises issued by the General Administration. (Responsible department: Food Safety Department)

　　(9) Continuously optimize the requirements and modes of inspection and supervision, implement "release before inspection" for imported low-risk mineral products and crude oil, implement "enterprise-applied" quality inspection for imported iron ore and cotton, and adopt the inspection results for imported clothing, cement and other commodities. (Responsible department: Commodity Inspection Office)

　　Fourth, continue to promote cross-border trade facilitation

　　(10) Promote the special action of Beijing Customs to promote trade facilitation in 2023, evaluate the business environment of the World Bank, and continuously improve the level of trade facilitation. (Responsible department: General Office)

　　(eleven) to promote the construction and application of "single window" in international trade, in accordance with the deployment of the General Administration, to promote the implementation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) online tax rebate, export goods subsidized/non-tax rebate certificate online verification and other service functions. (Responsible department: Customs Office, General Office)

　　(twelve) to support the local port management departments to carry out the pilot construction of "smart ports". Support the establishment and pilot project of Beijing double hub airport integrated service platform. (Responsible department: General Office, Supervision Office)

　　V. Helping to build a high-level open platform

　　(XIII) Promote the implementation of the comprehensive reform of the Comprehensive Bonded Zone and help the high-quality construction of the Zhongguancun Comprehensive Bonded Zone in Beijing. Promote the "bonded+e-commerce" model to promote consumption replenishment and potential release. We will promote three customs supervision modes of cultural works of art: "warehousing in the region+exhibition outside the region", "exhibition in the region+online transaction" and "bonded exhibition transaction". Promoting the mode of "bonded+quarantine" and improving the supervision efficiency of biomedicine. Promote the "bonded+warehousing" model to help enterprises increase revenue and reduce expenditure. (Responsible department: Enterprise Management Office)

　　Sixth, the service free trade agreement will play a better role.

　　(14) Do a good job in tracking and analyzing the implementation effect of preferential trade agreements, make classified policies, strengthen targeted policy propaganda and guidance for Beijing advanced certification enterprises, newly implemented member countries and import and export enterprises in related key industries, make full use of rules of origin to enjoy benefits, improve the utilization rate of agreements, further promote the high-quality implementation of RCEP, and continue to promote the reform measures of intelligent examination of certificates of origin and self-service printing to facilitate enterprises to fully enjoy benefits. (Responsible department: Customs Office)

　　(fifteen) to further explore and promote the characteristics of the "three wisdom" project, and actively promote the construction of intelligent border and intelligent access, and strive to form a replicable and scalable experience of Beijing. Relying on the international cooperation mechanism, we will actively publicize the concept of "three intelligences" in foreign exchange activities and exchange experience in building "three intelligences". Strengthen the political research and publicity of the "three intelligences" and increase the promotion of ideas and practices. (Responsible department: office)

　　Seven, to further facilitate the export tax rebate.

　　(16) In accordance with the unified arrangements of the General Administration of Taxation, the electronic interaction of customs declaration and invoice information is promoted by relying on the "single window", so that enterprises can automatically call the customs declaration and invoice information when they declare export tax rebates through the "single window" and the electronic tax bureau, which is convenient for enterprises to declare export tax rebates. (Responsible Department: Data Sub-center)

　　Eight, strengthen the cultivation of advanced certification enterprises.

　　(XVII) Under the framework of AEO mutual recognition cooperation of the General Administration of Customs, actively promote the implementation of AEO mutual recognition measures and do a good job in relevant mutual recognition evaluation. Focusing on enterprises that have trade relations with countries in the Belt and Road Initiative, member countries of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP), five Central Asian countries and Central and Eastern European countries, we will intensify credit cultivation for cross-border e-commerce and foreign trade integrated service platform enterprises, "specialized and innovative" and headquarters economy enterprises, expand the capacity of key enterprise cultivation libraries, carry out targeted cultivation for key enterprises, improve the quality and efficiency of cultivation, and actively cultivate and increase the number of advanced certified enterprises in customs areas. Through the combination of "online and offline", we will increase the publicity of customs AEO system and customs credit management related systems and expand the scope of publicity. (Responsible department: Enterprise Management Office)

　　IX. Expand the application of the voluntary disclosure policy

　　(eighteen) with the General Administration of voluntary disclosure policy revision. Enterprises that meet the requirements shall be given a lighter, mitigated or no administrative punishment according to law, and the late payment fee for tax payment shall be reduced or exempted according to law, providing enterprises with convenient channels for fault tolerance and error correction and law-abiding. Actively carry out publicity on the relevant policies of voluntary disclosure to enterprises, so that more enterprises that meet the requirements can enjoy the customs policy dividend. (Responsible department: Inspection Office)

　　Ten, promote the upgrading of processing trade.

　　(nineteen) in accordance with the unified deployment of the General Administration, innovate the customs supervision mechanism, support the development of new formats such as bonded maintenance and remanufacturing, improve the level of information management, and optimize operating procedures. Combined with the actual situation of processing trade in customs area, relevant facilitation measures are implemented, and suggestions for upgrading processing trade are put forward to the General Administration in various ways to promote the sustained and healthy development of processing trade and the stability of industrial chain and supply chain. (Responsible departments: Enterprise Management Office and Audit Office)

　　XI. Promote the sustained and healthy development of cross-border e-commerce

　　(20) Implement the comprehensive reform requirements of cross-border e-commerce customs supervision, refine and improve the system and measures of cross-border e-commerce online shopping bonded import supervision, and improve the standardization level of cross-border e-commerce online shopping bonded import supervision. (Responsible departments: Postal Office, Enterprise Management Office)

　　(twenty-one) in accordance with the requirements of the General Administration of pilot, timely promote the electronic tax payment function, to facilitate enterprises to handle tax payment business online. (Responsible department: Customs Office)

　　(twenty-two) to promote the strengthening of cross-border e-commerce B2B export overseas warehouse qualification mutual recognition with local authorities. On the premise of ensuring data security, provide relevant data services for local commercial departments. (Responsible departments: Postal Office, Statistics Office)

　　(23) Implement measures to upgrade the function of the return center warehouse, and strive to pilot the cross-border e-commerce online shopping bonded retail import cross-customs return mode and cross-border e-commerce general export goods cross-customs return. (Responsible departments: Postal Office, Enterprise Management Office)

　　XII. Support the development of new bonded maintenance formats.

　　(24) In accordance with the relevant regulations of the General Administration of Taxation, support enterprises in the comprehensive bonded zone to carry out bonded maintenance business of the Group’s domestically produced products, and support large-scale equipment such as aircraft, ships and offshore engineering structures imported by financial leasing enterprises registered in the comprehensive bonded zone to carry out bonded inspection and maintenance business outside the domestic area according to the existing regulations, so as to promote the orderly development of related businesses. Cooperate with local commercial departments to do a good job in customs supervision of bonded maintenance related to enterprises outside the comprehensive bonded area that meet the requirements. (Responsible departments: Enterprise Management Office and Audit Office)

　　Thirteen, continue to do a good job in technical trade measures consulting services.

　　(twenty-five) to carry out the annual statistical investigation of the impact of foreign technical trade measures, actively carry out enterprise publicity, research and comment and special trade concerns. Relying on the "Jingguan Technology and Trade" column and other channels to provide technology and trade information to help enterprises explore overseas markets. (Responsible department: General Office)

　　Fourteen, strengthen the customs protection of intellectual property rights.

　　(26) Strengthen the customs protection of intellectual property rights of independent brands, encourage independent brands and small and medium-sized enterprises with import and export needs to apply for customs filing of intellectual property rights, provide policy interpretation and rights protection guidance for enterprises, support enterprises to explore the international market, and provide support for enterprises to protect their rights overseas. Continue to carry out "Longteng Action 2023" and "Blue Net Action 2023". Strengthen the tips on intellectual property risks of import and export enterprises, and improve the ability of enterprises to prevent and resolve infringement risks. Provide targeted guidance and services to independent intellectual property enterprises to help cultivate enterprises with export intellectual property advantages. (Responsible department: General Office)

　　Fifteen, strengthen the analysis of foreign trade situation and customs statistics services.

　　(twenty-seven) to strengthen the import and export monitoring of key commodities, do a good job in foreign trade data release. Timely submit special statistical reports to local governments and statistical information of key commodities to the General Administration. According to the relevant regulations of the General Administration, the foreign trade data of Beijing area are published on the website of Beijing Customs on a regular basis. According to the deployment of the General Administration, we will promote the digital statistical service mode for the public. (Responsible department: Statistics Department)