Customs Issued "Pitional Policy" Cross Border Electricity Providers To Plan Well

On the tenth day of the new deal, the "pitional policy" of the Customs was finally issued in the voice of the outside world.

From the people close to the General Administration of customs, the pilot city ports and some enterprises, the notice of the general office of the Customs General Office on the implementation of the new tax policy on cross-border electricity suppliers in April 18th has been issued to the eight ports.

But this pitional "de Stocking" measure is only a relief to everyone. What worries the more cross-border businesses is that the new sea rush, which has aroused numerous waves, is still facing the core regulatory blind spot - the customs clearance list after two rounds of adjustment.

While more people are waiting for the final rules of the AQSIQ to explain the landing of boots, they start to race against time, and run through various channels to get the last gasp.

In the past 10 days, while adjusting the category and stock, while "running Department forward" reflects the situation voluntarily, or passively accepts the research from all levels of departments, it has become a portrayal of the whole industry of cross-border electricity supplier.

At present, such products sold by cross-border e-commerce platforms are hardly sold in China, and the long tail products produced in accordance with the standards of Europe and America are faced with the problem of access.

Although the Ministry of finance has issued official documents as early as the end of March, it is confirmed that China will implement cross border e-commerce retail business from April 8, 2016.

(B2C) import tax policy and adjust the postal tax policy synchronously.

However, the positive list of business scope was officially released at around 21 in April 7th.

Many enterprises involved in the policy have started the overnight mode because they have only a few hours to adjust their internal systems to customs.

At the same time, it raises another question. For those products that have been placed before April 8th or shipped overseas, if not in the positive list, what should we do?

By April 18th, the policy was finally completed.

The core contents of the notice include the sale of goods that are in the library or on the way before April 8th (including April 8th), whether or not they are on the positive list, until they are sold out.

It is specifically stated that the cross-border e-commerce imports imported to the customs special supervision area or bonded logistics center (B type) before April 8th (including April 8th), whether or not they belong to the list of positive ones, are allowed to avoid the replacement of licenses and customs clearance orders until they are sold out.

The customs will check the import date of cross-border e-commerce imports which are not yet in the area before April 8th but have been shipped from abroad before April 8th. The customs will check the date of signing the relevant contracts, and allow the relevant commodities to enter the area after the date of departure of the inbound and outbound means of pport manifest.

In addition, the new deal stipulates that the limit of personal pactions in cross-border e-commerce is RMB 20000 yuan.

In order to facilitate operation, the year is calculated according to the natural year, and 2016 is counted from April 8th.

There will be a slight difference in the specific implementation scale of each port. The standard of some ports is that goods ordered in April 8th can continue to be sold, whether shipped or not, until they are sold out.

This newspaper has also reported that in many places, after the "positive list" requirement, the regulatory authorities take into account the inventory pressure of enterprises and implement the policy of slow customs clearance.

This has encouraged quite a number of enterprises to take off the shelves outside the list.

However, many of them have adjusted their inventory and category quickly in the past ten days for fear of risk taking.

Because in the past two years, they have undergone many rounds of policy subtle adjustment, and therefore exercised a keen sense of smell.

"No matter how the policy changes, we still have to walk on two legs."

But there are still some people who are still confused.

A company that imports beef as its main commodity.

Over the past few years, a lot of capital has been invested in the domestic bonded area to build professional cold chain equipment. But because beef is not in the front list, these devices are now likely to be sunk costs.

Many enterprises related to this kind of research have said to the reporter that, in essence, even if the list is open, the most important problem is a customs declaration.

The two batch of positive list shows that the online shopping bonded goods "first line" into the area need to check the customs clearance according to the goods, and the second line is free from checking the customs notes.

Zhao Ping, a researcher at the China Council for the promotion of trade, said that the regulation of cross-border electricity providers entering the bonded area has been in line with general trade.

In other words, this customs declaration means that all future cross-border electricity suppliers entering the bonded area will have to apply for entry permits according to the general trade mode, especially those involving food, medicine, health care products and milk powder.

But what is interesting is that food, medicine, health care products, milk powder and cosmetics are the commodities of large domestic consumer demand, high degree of product standardization, easy to enter the domestic bonded warehouse by collecting goods mode, and also the largest category of "sunshine" B2C cross-border electricity supplier inventory in China.

Instead of the standard category of personalized products, such as leather bags, clothes, shoes and so on, businesses prefer to send direct mail from overseas warehouses.

This trend can be seen from a number of research materials.

A number of enterprises in the comprehensive pilot city of a well-known cross-border electricity supplier have suffered a cliff slide.

Because of the uncertainty of the new deal, a number of small business providers and non self operated platform businesses have almost completely suspended their business, while other businesses are facing 35%~77%'s decline.

Many people said that this decision stems from the decision level of the import B2C cross-border electricity supplier to sell the nature of the goods, that is, whether goods trade or personal goods.

Judging from the tax adjustment policy issued by the Ministry of finance, the collection of goods from overseas into the domestic bonded area is regarded as goods.

A bonded area official said this caused a series of problems, because in the previous regulation, the goods in cross-border electricity suppliers were treated according to personal personal items, equivalent to shopping overseas.

Such a tax payment is based on individuals. If no formula milk powder registered in the food safety law and imported food without license can be regarded as the result of individual choice abroad, the customs declaration form can be obtained directly.

If it is regarded as a general trade, it is necessary to have a complete permit and other necessary procedures in order to apply for customs clearance according to the way of execution. This brings the regulatory difficulties of entry exit inspection and Quarantine Bureau at all ports.

For example, over 4 imported B2C cross-border e-commerce platforms and brands have reported to the first financial daily that in recent days, although formula milk powder has been granted exemption from imports, in practice, they can only sell existing stocks in bonded warehouses, and new orders can not enter overseas bonded warehouses from overseas, and logistics is stagnant.

The chain reaction caused by customs clearance is far more than the above problems.

Many electric providers, including those responsible for foreign trade terminals, told our reporter that the products that could not be separated from more than 2000 yuan could only be dealt with according to the general trade tax, because the main body of paying taxes in general trade must be enterprises, while individual consumers could not provide relevant procedures for general trade needs to declare customs. In fact, they could not pay taxes, leading to the fact that such products could only be lowered.

"I am also very upset about this new VAT invoice. We are not a channel merchant. How do we do the cost deduction? The express delivery has already handed over the tax. Why do we need to add all the tax to this tax base?" an industry insider said.