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CCTV news: on October 13, the State Information Office held a press conference on import and export in the first three quarters. Li Kuiwen, spokesman of the General Administration of customs and director of the Department of statistics and analysis, introduced in response to reporters' questions that the customs resolutely implemented the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council and focused on" six stabilities"and" six guarantees " , we will coordinate the prevention and control of port epidemics and promote the steady growth of foreign trade, further put forward 56 measures to stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment, and constantly improve the level of customs clearance facilitation
first, reform and innovation to promote trade facilitation comprehensively promote facilitation measures such as "two-step declaration", "declaration in advance", "green channel" and no on-site inspection to improve customs clearance efficiency. In September, the overall customs clearance time of import and export was 35.02 hours and 1.86 hours respectively, down 64.04% and 84.87% respectively compared with 2017, both of which have decreased month on month for five consecutive months
the second is to find ways to reduce enterprise costs nearly 200 million yuan has been reduced and saved for enterprises through the reduction and exemption of import late declaration fees, late payment fees and the exemption of interest on domestic sales of processing trade goods. In particular, small and medium-sized enterprises account for about 70% of the import and export enterprises that use tariff guarantee insurance
the third is to speed up the pilot and promote the development of new business forms comprehensively promote the regulatory measures for the return of cross-border e-commerce export commodities, and carry out the pilot of cross-border e-commerce enterprise to enterprise export. Encourage the central and western regions and Northeast China to carry out pilot market procurement trade. In the first three quarters, the import and export through the customs cross-border e-commerce management platform was 187.39 billion yuan, an increase of 52.8%, and the market procurement and export was 509.86 billion yuan, an increase of 35.5%
Fourth, take multiple measures to promote the building of a new highland of opening to the outside world vigorously support the construction of Hainan free trade port and Yangshan Comprehensive Bonded Zone, strengthen the innovation, replication and promotion of customs supervision system in the pilot Free Trade Zone, and promote the full implementation of global maintenance and remanufacturing business in the comprehensive bonded zone. In the first three quarters, the import and export of the National Comprehensive Bonded Zone reached 2.34 trillion yuan, an increase of 15.1%, 14.4 percentage points higher than the growth rate of foreign trade
fifth, make every effort to ensure the import of key products continue to expand the scope of importing countries and commodities, approve 5965 foreign registered enterprises, and strengthen the import guarantee of meat, grain, aquatic products, fruits and other important agricultural products and food. In the first three quarters, meat and grain imports were 162.65 billion yuan and 253.36 billion yuan respectively, with a year-on-year increase of 87.3% and 20.7% respectively
in the next step, the national customs will deepen reform and innovation, make every effort to do a good job in the "six stabilities" and "six guarantees", fully promote the implementation and effectiveness of 56 measures to further stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment, promote the stable development and quality improvement of foreign trade, and make positive contributions to promoting the formation of a new development pattern
(source: CCTV)