Customs policy adjustment Sea Amoy concussion electricity trader Global buys the transaction to reduce 1/3

For the "sea Amoy" industry, this is a chaotic season.

One months, a large number of online shopping shop pain unbearable. Insiders say that the "Global Purchase" volume on the relevant electric-business platform has plummeted 1/3, and more small platforms have stopped serving.

Cross-border logistics prices soared, the clearance slowly caused a large backlog of parcels. A related industry to the "first financial daily" said that the cost is enough "uncomfortable", now the logistics paralysis, "really not live."

Cross-border shopping logistics companies are also suffering, their single quantity has fallen One-third, some have laid off two-thirds.

This is related to a new policy of the national Customs Administration at the end of March. The new deal stipulates that all foreign Express enterprises using EMS Customs clearance delivery package, not in accordance with the entry of postal goods for customs clearance formalities.

Customs New deal makes the original customary parcel transfer company had to find another clear access, the sea Amoy industry shocks and spread to the industrial chain of each link.

Customs ' New Deal triggers drastic changes in Access

The so-called Sea Amoy, usually refers to the direct purchase of goods from overseas Web site and shipped to the domestic. Some of the foreign sites provide global distribution services, and more need to be transported through the implementation. Transshipment part, some by providing purchasing services to the domestic electricity merchants to provide, there are a large number of consumers choose the transshipment company to achieve.

The sea Amoy transshipment process is composed of 4 links: first, the consumer registers with the relevant forwarding company website and obtains the overseas recipient's name, the mailing address and so on, and then orders in the Overseas Corporation website, sets the above information as the distribution address; Third, the overseas transshipment company receipts, by the consumer confirmation after warehousing, packing, sends to China; Related goods through the Chinese customs port to complete customs clearance, distribution to the domestic real address.

Most transit companies usually act as overseas "receiving packer" role, goods to China and then by Customs clearance company. If the cooperation between the hundred and the Hundred is a typical mode of cooperation, the former package forwarding, the latter provides customs clearance services.

But the new deal stirred up transshipment because the customs clearance had changed.

Customs clearance of overseas goods logistics is roughly divided into three categories: first, trade clearance. More in the bulk of business-to-business transactions, the need to pay tariffs, value-added tax, and after the "three inspection." Second, Express. Contains KJ1 documents, KJ2 and KJ3 commercial samples and advertising samples and KJ4 personal belongings. The third category is mail. Include document letters and parcels.

Express and Mail are required to pay tax. It includes tariffs, VAT, and excise taxes on specific categories.

The difference between the two is that the express need to provide a copy of the individual purchaser ID card, from abroad from the beginning of the change cannot be, and the message is not required. International express usually for UPS, DHL and other Express company distribution, but it is usually active customs declaration, that is, individual purchases of goods will be hundred cent tax, parcel post is usually sampling.

Prior to this, the transport companies set up in the United States to send parcels to domestic mail access, convenient and low-cost, but irregular. The UPU Convention stipulates that incoming mail refers to goods that are used by the foreign (regional) postal enterprises to use the Union-specified form and are handed over to China post in the Chinese area. Transshipment companies are not postal companies.

The reason for the customs to close the new deal is here. All foreign Express enterprises using EMS Customs clearance delivery Package, shall not be in accordance with the entry of postal goods for customs clearance procedures. Only parcels that are used by the other country's postal enterprises through the post network are to be used in a single form by UPU and handed over to China post in China.

The original ropes channel was closed, many transit companies limited to the predicament. Hundred Li, such as the original mail customs clearance service providers have no longer orders, transshipment company hurriedly is anxious to find a way out.

Panic and Pain

The whole "sea Amoy" industrial chain is suffering pain. The last batch of mail clearance package in early April distribution completed. Insiders said that this is only late March to Tianjin port of the lot. At the end of March, the sea Amoy transshipment distribution has been basically paralyzed.

Portal level "Sea Amoy" professional Forum let's buy a moderator is the sea Amoy senior personage. For one months he had heard the forwarding company complaining every day.

Almost all transit companies have a large backlog of parcels, or not from outside the bank, or to China difficult to have a smooth access to customs clearance, and some even returned. The most typical is the "Changsha incident". Many batches of goods have been detained in Changsha customs for more than two months. The official said, the current has entered the identification stage, but the specific resolution date is undecided.

The Airport Express port is also not unimpeded. Rui days, Long Wo chose Chongqing Airport Express Port, but a lot of parcels, clearance speed slow, landing backlog is usually about 10-15 days.

The bad news is still coming. This Tuesday night, a forwarding company CEO on the phone complained to this newspaper that Chongqing Airport Express Port has been closed. Insiders said that at present almost only the Beijing Airport Express Port a road to go, costly. A transit company to provide the Beijing Airport Express clearance service provider Crown Czech logistics quotes: 20 yuan per piece of document information input fee, that is, the delivery fee, 8 yuan per kg customs clearance fee. The official said that only paid off before the fee, not included.

Transshipment service is a low margin business. The industry margin is as low as 0.5 dollars before the mail access is closed. The owner of a Chinese transit company in the United States complained to the newspaper that losing several iphones would cause the company to do it for 1 months. More sources say that many Chinese transshipment companies are losing money to do business in the near future.

It is not difficult to understand the recent transfer company service price has been significantly increased by 50%: The same boat Express, Tianyi Express U.S. West LAX the first weight of the center of the United States to raise one-fold; the express shipping price of Rui days from 3.5 U.S. dollars per pound to 7 U.S. dollars, a pound of 4 dollars.

A large number of purchasing small businesses difficult to support, consumers began to wait and see. In addition, transshipment companies began to advance tariffs, express customs clearance to consumers to upload identity cards, photos and so on, many people worry about exposure to personal information and deterred.

Let's E buy moderator said, a lot of shops have gone to the end of the Forum small purchase network merchants have closed. Another personage in the industry said, many consumer-to-consumer on the electric Commerce platform's "global buys" the business, the turnover reduction 1/3.

Some multinational purchasing merchants in China with warehouses, but also some inventory, but the trans-border transport volume has been reduced by One-third.

This leads to a chain reaction: a reduction in trading, a decline in transshipment orders, and a bad transit company. Many transshipment companies began to lay off workers. There are only one-third people left in the Los Angeles warehouse.

The Bureau relies on more channels. Some transit companies began to smuggle. Insiders said, part of the transit company official online labeling "Large price" is the parallel import channel freight.

This newspaper was informed that a number of transshipment companies are currently with the second-tier City Airport port active contact to seek the Airport Express Customs clearance open. People familiar with the matter said it could work, with several second-tier city ports expected to open in the next 1-2 months.

A person close to the customs system said that for the Airport Express port, many local customs had little experience in the interior, and the tightening of customs policy is one of the reasons for the slow progress.

A lower tax exemption may be an indirect cause. According to the current regulations, the individual mail imported goods applied for import duty tax in RMB 50 yuan (including 50 yuan) below, the customs exemption.

In this way, the customs workload is huge, and all parcels are inspected and the levy is difficult to achieve. People familiar with the matter said that many of the local customs were not active in the port of express because of the complicated business and the policy pressure in the system to make mistakes.

From 2004 to 2010, the amount of import duty exempted from personal mail entry was 500 yuan, and decreased to 50 yuan in 2010. The head of a trans-shipment company said the industry hopes to get a modest increase in the amount of exemption.

This is about the growth of the Cross-border shopping industry. Not a personal direct cross-border shopping, "2011 (China) E-commerce Market Data Monitoring Report" showed that, as of last June, the overseas purchase market transaction size has reached 20.6 billion yuan, 2012 or up to 48 billion yuan.