Abstract：Heilongjiang is located in the northeast border of the motherland. The border line of Heilongjiang is 2981 kilometers long. With national free trade pilot zone, national key development and opening pilot zone, border economic cooperation zone, cross-borde
Heilongjiang is located in the northeast border of the motherland. The border line of Heilongjiang is 2981 kilometers long. With national free trade pilot zone, national key development and opening pilot zone, border economic cooperation zone, cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone and other open platforms, Heilongjiang is one of the earliest provinces in China to carry out economic trade with Russia.
Heilongjiang, which is located in the central region of Northeast Asia and has 27 national first-class ports, has become an important window for China to open to the north. Standing at the node where the development of foreign trade ushers in new opportunities, Harbin Customs has taken comprehensive measures to open channels, build an open platform, improve customs clearance efficiency, reduce customs clearance costs, and played a good "combination punch" to actively help Longjiang build a new highland for China's opening to the north. In the first seven months of this year, the growth rate of import and export of goods in Heilongjiang Province was 21.5 percentage points higher than that in the same period of the country, ranking sixth in the country.
Multi measures to benefit enterprises and benefit enterprises help the province's import and export "double growth"
On August 23, a cargo ship carrying 15 passenger cars slowly left the West Port Waterway Terminal of Tongjiang Port in Jiamusi City. This batch of goods took the mode of "direct loading upon arrival", which significantly improved the customs clearance efficiency. The person in charge of Heilongjiang Foreign Agency International Trade Co., Ltd., the enterprise to which the goods belong, introduced that "the mode of 'direct shipment upon arrival' was adopted to export goods, which reduced the logistics operation link in the port area. The average time from the arrival of goods to shipment was less than 30 minutes, and the handling cost was reduced by 40%, which greatly saved costs. Since this year, the value of the export goods we represented has risen sharply."
Barges loaded with export goods leave Tongjiang Port. Drawing provided by Harbin Customs
"Direct shipment upon arrival" of export goods refers to the direct shipment and departure of goods released by the customs through such measures as declaration in advance, bayonet triggered arrival, and separate release according to instructions. Enterprises can "book" the arrival time with the terminal according to their own production plans, flexibly arrange the warehouse area for loading and leaving the factory, and greatly improve the customs clearance efficiency and achieve "zero inventory" in logistics according to the process of "early declaration - release upon arrival - direct loading upon arrival".
"The customs has introduced the customs clearance mode 'menu'. Enterprises can independently choose such modes as port clearance, customs transfer, national customs clearance integration, declaration in advance, and 'two-step declaration', which are just as convenient as ordering dishes. Overlapping such operation modes as' ship side direct lifting ',' arrival direct loading ', and' water rail intermodal transportation 'saves customs clearance time and cost for enterprises." Zhang Hongping, director of Tongjiang Customs, introduced. In the first seven months of this year, the total import and export value of Tongjiang's goods trade was 6.26 billion yuan, an increase of 41.4% over the same period last year. Among them, the export was 790 million yuan, an increase of 17 times, and the import was 5.47 billion yuan, an increase of 24.8%. The import and export achieved "double growth".
The growth of Tongjiang Port is only a microcosm of the increase in foreign trade quality of Heilongjiang Province. According to the statistics of Harbin Customs, in the first seven months of this year, the total value of import and export of goods in Heilongjiang Province was 145.06 billion yuan, an increase of 31.9% over the same period of last year, and the growth rate of import and export was 21.5 percentage points higher than that of the country in the same period. Among them, the export was 27.3 billion yuan, up 15.4%; imports reached 117.76 billion yuan, up 36.4%.
Gradual reduction of customs clearance time of goods, continuous release of magnetic attraction effect in the comprehensive bonded area
Recently, a van carrying agricultural machinery components slowly drove into Harbin Comprehensive Bonded Zone. After comparing the customs data collection system with the declared data, it passed through two checkpoints in less than 10 seconds. After entering the enterprise warehouse, this batch of goods will be assembled in the warehouse through "tax relief", and then sold to all parts of the country.
In recent years, Harbin Comprehensive Bonded Zone has continuously enriched its business types and improved its regional functions, covering bonded logistics, bonded processing, cross-border e-commerce, testing and maintenance. It has been successively approved as "the first batch of processing trade industry pilot parks in China", "the provincial export consumer goods processing center" and "the core area of Harbin cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone", forming a pattern of coordinated development with the pilot free trade zone, airport economic zone and inland port.
"How to play the role of the customs, maximize the magnetic attraction effect of the Comprehensive Bonded Area, and attract more foreign trade enterprises is an important issue before the customs. Through multi angle and all-round publicity and implementation, Harbin Customs has made more and more Longjiang enterprises understand the Comprehensive Bonded Area and enter the Comprehensive Bonded Area." Wang Dongmei, deputy director of the Customs Department of Harbin, said.
Haoshi Agricultural Machinery (Harbin) Co., Ltd., as the first foreign-funded enterprise settled in Harbin Comprehensive Bonded Area, was the first to taste the "sweet". "We are a large international enterprise focusing on agricultural machinery R&D, manufacturing and agricultural mechanization production. Our products are imported from Germany and sold to Heilongjiang, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and other places. The tax relief policy in the bonded area has actually reduced the capital pressure of enterprises and increased cash flow for enterprises." Ding Ting, the manager of the import department of the company, said, "In the spring planting season this year, the 38 machines we imported were sold out quickly. Not only that, under the preferential enterprise policy of the customs, the customs clearance time of our bonded goods into the area was also greatly reduced, which really achieved the goal of" reporting immediately ", which effectively improved the enterprise's shipping efficiency and brand image, which also gave the enterprise the confidence to continue to expand the import of agricultural machinery."
In order to promote the high-level opening and high-quality development of the Comprehensive Bonded Zone in Heilongjiang Province, Harbin Customs has successively issued two batches of 34 specific support measures, promoting the continuous improvement of the development level of the Comprehensive Bonded Zone from the aspects of promoting trade facilitation, cultivating new business types, boosting industrial upgrading, and fully supporting the settlement of major investment promotion projects in the Comprehensive Bonded Zone. In the first seven months of this year, the total import and export value of the Comprehensive Bonded Zone in Heilongjiang Province was 2.661 billion yuan, up 25.6% year on year. The magnetic attraction effect of the Comprehensive Bonded Zone became more and more obvious.
In recent years, customs clearance documents and customs clearance time have been greatly reduced. In the past ten years, the number of import and export goods supervision certificates has been reduced from 86 to 41, of which 38 have realized online verification and automatic comparison. The entry-exit passenger quarantine supervision links were optimized from 11 to 5, the enterprise customs clearance declaration items were reduced from 229 to 105, and the documents submitted with the declaration form were consolidated from 74 to 10. Gao Wenning, Deputy Director of Harbin Customs, said: "The customs clearance time for goods has been further shortened. In July 2022, the overall customs clearance time for imports in Heilongjiang Province will be 24.7 hours, 57.35% less than that in 2017, 0.43 hours less than that in 2017, 85.71% less than that in 2017, and the customs clearance efficiency for imports and exports will remain among the top in the country."
Continuously deepen the "release, management and service" to help enterprises serve and optimize the port business environment
Recently, with the sound of sirens, the train carrying 206 GAC Trumpchi commercial vehicles slowly drove out of Harbin International Container Center Station to the European market. Looking at the departing train, Wang Lijun, the head of Zhejiang Rukaiyun Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd., smiled. "With the help of the customs, this is the first time that Heilongjiang Province, as well as the three northeastern provinces, has adopted the China Railway Special Freight Cage Special Transportation Train. Compared with the traditional container transportation in the past, it will not only increase the number of single transportation, but also greatly reduce the operating costs of the enterprise. Our company will carry out regular export. It is planned to carry more than 500 cars in two trains every month. This time, I will have a foothold in Heilongjiang!" Wang Lijun said happily.
The customs officers of Harbin Customs inspect the whole cage train shipment. Drawing provided by Harbin Customs
Wang Lijun's enterprise is mainly engaged in automobile export business. Previously, he was under pressure due to the shortage of traditional shipping capacity and the rise of freight. "The logistics cost determines whether I can succeed in going north this time." At the symposium between Harbin Customs and foreign trade enterprises, Yao Xiangjun, the deputy director of the office of Bingcheng Customs in Xiangfang, wrote down the problem Wang Lijun "threw".
In order to effectively solve the practical difficulties of foreign trade enterprises, Harbin Customs established a special work team to intervene in advance, carry out "one-to-one" services, support enterprises to develop the most advanced cross-border transport mode of railway special cage cars, and provide all-round policy support in handling customs clearance procedures and subsequent development. "In the past, only 3 to 4 cars could be loaded into a box of traditional China Europe Express containers. Now, a box of special cage type transport trains of China Railway with two layers can hold 9 to 10 cars, saving enterprises more than 20% of logistics costs." Yao Xiangjun said.
Without investigation, Harbin Customs has no right to speak. Harbin Customs made a thorough understanding of the customs' measures to promote foreign trade stability and quality improvement, difficulties and demands, foreign trade operations and expectations to 261 enterprises in the customs area, publicized the customs' measures to help enterprises, built a "mutual aid platform for enterprises", and solicited opinions and suggestions on customs work. Statistics show that from January to July this year, there were 2086 enterprises with import and export performance in Harbin customs area, with a year-on-year growth of 4.41%.
"The port business environment is of great importance." Gao Wenning, Deputy Director of Harbin Customs, said, "In recent years, Harbin Customs has focused on customs clearance facilitation, and has taken a series of hard and practical measures to continuously deepen the reform of" deregulation, regulation and service ", optimize the customs clearance process, improve the efficiency of customs clearance, and reduce the cost of customs clearance. The business environment of Longjiang Port has been constantly improved, and the level of cross-border trade facilitation has been greatly improved. The customs clearance of many law-abiding import and export enterprises is' more time-saving, more trouble saving, and more money saving '."
In the next step, Harbin Customs will continue to deepen the construction of "smart customs, smart borders, and smart connectivity", focus on the goal and task of "opening up Longjiang", continue to introduce practical and effective measures to promote stable growth of foreign trade, and continue to contribute to the customs force of "building a new highland for China's opening to the north".