China’s Pilot Cross-border E-commerce Import and Export Exceeds 3 Billion Yuan

China's General Administration of Customs released on the 26th, until the end of 2014, China's import and export volume of cross-border e-commerce pilot has exceeded 3 billion yuan.

Cross-border e-commerce, booming in recent years, has become an important force in promoting foreign trade growth. To support this new format development, the General Administration of Customs continues to reform the clearance regulatory model, made cities with ripe conditions pilot from 2012 and established a new type of regulatory model of cross-border trade e-commerce.

Statistics show that in exports, from July 2013 to the end of December 2014, 16 pilot cities, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Zhengzhou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Beijing, Suzhou, Qingdao, Jinhua, Dongguan, Xi'an, Nanjing, Huludao, Yinchuan carried out cross-border e-commerce export business for about 2.04 billion yuan, covering 181 countries and regions. At the same period, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Zhengzhou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen has launched a cross-border e-commerce import business, clearing from customs 4,11 million parcels, worth about 1.01 billion yuan.

It is known that that in 2014 the general administration of customs developed a unified version management system of the cross-border e-commerce export clearance, which launched in Dongguan on July 1. This system relies on electronic port platform, and completes efficient networking docking with e-commerce enterprises, logistics, payment companies, thus making export tax rebates and exchange settlement convenient for e-commerce business enterprise, improving customs clearance efficiency and reducing business costs.

The general administration of customs spokesman Zhang Guangzhi said, the cross-border e-commerce export clearance unified version system is being actively promoted. At present, Customs of Guangzhou, Nanjing, Shenyang, Xi'an, Yinchuan has completed the deployment of a unified version system, and carried out related export business. Meanwhile, the networking docking between e-commerce enterprise and this system is also being accelerated, DinoDirect, IZP, Oasis, and other more than 50 companies have completed the networking docking and data exchange with electronic port data center. (www.chinainout.com)