The new policy will implement billions of overseas purchasing market will change greatly

After the general administration of Customs September 1 to adjust the tax exemption for overseas postal parcels, overseas purchasing official farewell "free lunch." The investigation found that, after the implementation of the new tariff policy, some sellers directly call business difficult to choose to wait and see, some sellers clearly put the cost to the buyer, while the other part of a single foreign trade, from the Express declaration to the collective Declaration, entered the ranks of the formal declaration. China's nearly tens of billions of dollars in the size of the network shopping market in the implementation of the new tariff policy is facing a reshuffle.

"Frozen" overseas purchasing?

From September 1 This year, the General administration of Customs to personal mail imported goods from the original 500 yuan reduced to 50 yuan, as long as the tax should be paid more than 50 yuan, the full price of goods to pay import duties.

In the tax rate, accounting for the first cosmetics overseas to levy a 50% import duties, purchasing popular digital products, watches class levy 30% of import duties, gold and silver jewelry and cultural goods and other commodities levied the lowest tax rate, but also to 10%.

"Overseas purchases are basically middle and high-end goods, less than 50 yuan of things." "In Taobao, the shopkeeper engaged in purchasing business," said, "if all international postal parcels are levied on tariffs, the entire purchasing industry has almost no profit margin." ”

Taobao Forum, the purchase tax has become a hot topic. Often through overseas purchasing to children to buy milk powder, Ningjing said, from the site to choose the purchase is there is concern, because the quality can not guarantee that the goods are not timely there is a risk, out of the problem can not be held responsible for business, if the price difference is not large, certainly many people will give up overseas

Regarding the tariff adjustment, the general Administration of Customs Supervision Department responsible person's explanation is, along with the Chinese economy rapid development, one is most incoming mail no longer is the gift between the friends and relatives the goods, the customs originally formulated preferential policy to take care of the overseas demand the role already weakened. Secondly, the nature of inbound and outbound mail has changed to the commodity of transaction nature.

In addition, the customs said that from the actual customs supervision of the situation found that some outlaws to the operation of imported goods split into multiple votes, false reported as personal belongings, the use of personal items tax concessions, through the mail, express channels to escape from supervision. "This kind of behavior not only causes the loss of state revenue, but also avoids the state's control over imported goods, so that the related goods can be brought into the domestic market without safety, health and quality, and consumers cannot get the protection they deserve." ”

There are still tricks to evade taxes.

Available data show that in recent years, China's overseas purchasing market has sprung up, China's E-commerce Research Center released the latest "2010 (ON) China's E-commerce market data Monitoring Report," as at the end of June, the market transaction size of overseas purchase reached 7.82 billion yuan, the end of the scale is expected to reach 11.03 billion yuan.

The report also said that the top ten consumer products are welcomed by consumers for cosmetics, milk powder, bags, shoes and hats, clothing, electronic products, high-end watch jewelry, food, personal sports equipment and overseas specialties. Among them, cosmetics and powdered milk are most popular.

In addition to some personal sellers, the purchase of consumer Web sites everywhere, even large-scale network retail platform is very optimistic about this market. ebay also opened the purchase of proprietary business, and the monthly turnover rate of three to five times times the rapid growth.

In the face of such a large market, does tariff adjustment disrupt the pace of rapid development of overseas purchasing?

Reporter learned that the current overseas purchase is divided into professional international purchasing website and personal purchase two shops. The former is usually connected with foreign online shopping websites to form a large network, and most of the latter are contacted by overseas suppliers or friends who are cooperating to send the goods to the home. Two reactions are different: purchase shop explicitly said to increase tariffs, personal shop said, can be "fragmented", continue not to pay taxes.

The reporter discovered that many overseas purchasing merchants did not stop purchasing business because of the new policy, but instead took the "Ant move" mode, and tore the parcel into multiple pieces of single goods to evade tariffs. A seller, for example, the previous 7 bags of American cranberry can be shipped, the price is about 740 yuan, go personal goods mailing, do not need tax. After September 1, only small packaging to go fast access, the only problem is that will increase the cost of delivery, and these costs can be diluted in each buyer.

Industry will shuffle

Some people in the industry believe that, as a new industry, experienced the rapid development of the past few years, surface prosperity to some extent to conceal the overseas purchasing industry some problems. The tariff adjustment, or the first real industry reshuffle, has led to a healthier development path.