Taiwan sea express arrives at Xiamen Xiamen port trade advantage is obvious

In August 2014, the first batch of ocean express from Taiwan arrived at Xiamen Dongdu Terminal by coSCO Star passenger and cargo roll-on vessel, marking that cross-strait ocean express business officially entered the pilot operation stage.

The first batch of three containers, weighing 4,604 kg, will contain 639 items, mainly clothing, food and personal online shopping goods. All the items will be inspected in Xiamen and distributed to other parts of the mainland.

In recent years, the rapid growth of cross-strait express business, strong market demand. Before the cross-strait express use of air transport, the cost is higher, there are more restrictions on the goods carried. In February this year, The General Administration of Customs approved xiamen to pilot express shipping services to Taiwan, making xiamen the first city on the mainland to be allowed to operate cross-strait express shipping services.

According to the introduction, in the future, Marine express will also provide a variety of transportation options for individual needs, and is expected to achieve door-to-door services from door-to-door to door-to-door delivery within 72 hours.

As the upgraded version of "postal service" among the "three direct links" between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits, the first ocean express is the latest achievement of Xiamen's efforts to comprehensively deepen reform and build a beautiful Xiamen. It is the booster of cross-Straits economic and trade exchanges, cooperation and win-win. It embodies the consensus and efforts of both sides of the Taiwan Straits to actively explore customs clearance facilitation mode, promote the development of cross-strait economic and trade cooperation, and jointly build a new logistics channel across the Taiwan Straits.

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Cross-border e-commerce ushered in a new era

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We will develop a new model for cross-Straits trade customs clearance

[For cross-Straits trade, port authorities will, under the premise of effective supervision, provide special and convenient customs clearance services, promote Xiamen to become the main distribution center for cross-Straits import and export commodities, and jointly explore a new model of cross-Straits trade clearance facilitation.]

As one of the earliest ports in mainland China to carry out cross-strait trade, Xiamen's five advantages have long been self-evident. In the past decade, the average annual growth rate of trade between Taiwan and Xiamen has exceeded 20%. It is one of the main gathering areas for Taiwan businessmen in the mainland and the largest port for Taiwan's fruits, wine, snack food, books and rice to enter the mainland. It has become a bridgehead and a window for the mainland's exchanges and cooperation with Taiwan.

Customs clearance facilitation is the premise and foundation of trade facilitation and the key link of cross-strait express shipping business. A shipment of goods, a seemingly simple entry and exit customs clearance, involving customs, entry and exit inspection and quarantine, border inspection, port office, state tax, foreign exchange administration and other port departments.

"To improve the level of customs clearance facilitation, it is not enough to rely on any department alone. We should firmly establish the concept of 'great customs clearance, great cooperation and great service', integrate the existing port resources, deepen the cooperation between departments and seek joint efforts. The relevant person in charge of municipal business bureau, told reporters on the shipping Courier, cross-border development of new formats, such as electricity, port of each department will hand in hand with combination, under the precondition of effective regulation of cross-strait come-and-go commodities, given special convenient customs clearance service, push xiamen become a distribution center for import and export goods are mainly on both sides of the Taiwan, jointly explore new pattern building cross-strait trade customs clearance facilitation.

Nowadays, xiamen Customs, on the basis of adhering to the convenient customs clearance mode of "guarantee inspection", "centralized customs declaration", "post delivery of documents" and so on, orderly promotes various reform measures such as "local declaration and local release", "paperless customs clearance", and "three ones" for customs inspection. Xiamen Inspection and Quarantine Bureau is studying and formulating supervision standards for the inspection and quarantine of import and export commodities of cross-border e-commerce, exploring facilitation measures such as one-time declaration, batch verification and cancellation, and implementing integrity management and differentiated supervision for e-commerce enterprises, so as to guide the healthy development of cross-border e-commerce. At the same time, under the leadership of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government, the relevant departments of the customs, national Inspection and other ports are working together to build a comprehensive public service platform for cross-Straits cross-border e-commerce and maritime express, integrating business office, e-commerce transaction, logistics distribution, customs clearance and inspection, online payment and other functions. In the future, zhuhai will gradually build a port clearance service platform for "information exchange, mutual recognition of supervision and mutual assistance of law enforcement" among port supervision departments.

Marine express business is a window, the new customs clearance mode will release cross-strait trade facilitation dividends, for cross-strait economic and trade exchanges open new possibilities. It is understood that Xiamen Inspection and Quarantine Bureau will continue to deepen exchanges and cooperation with quality inspection departments in Taiwan, and promote joint research on inspection and quarantine standards, mutual trust of results and mutual recognition of supervision.