Hangzhou to declare "China online free trade Zone"

The era of real liberalisation and facilitation of cross-border electricity dealers is likely to come soon. At the 2014 China E-commerce Fair held here, Hangzhou Municipal Committee member Guili revealed that Hangzhou will declare China's Hangzhou free trade Area to the state and promote the liberalization, facilitation and planning of Cross-border E-commerce.

For this idea of Hangzhou, the deputy director of the National Informatization Advisory Committee and former chief engineer of the national General Administration of customs, Yang Guoxun said that it is of great significance to deepen the reform of the pilot project of Cross-border Electric power, and hope to report it as soon as possible for early implementation.

Hangzhou officials: Cross-border electricity dealers have not yet been considered a new form of trade

Hangzhou's various types of e-commerce activities, Guili appear very high frequency, and the various types of data is also familiar with the heart. She said that the global Internet population has accounted for 1/3 of the world's population, nearly 1 billion people online shopping, and China's Cross-border E-commerce Retail is also growing fast, last year, reached 21.4 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 33.3%. Under this situation, Hangzhou faces the commanding heights of the development of E-commerce, in addition to the first to establish Cross-border E-commerce Industry Park and network tax and other emerging customs clearance mode, Hangzhou is also actively reporting to the State China Hangzhou online free trade zone.

In December 2012, the general Administration of Customs approved 5 cities, including Hangzhou, as one of the trans-border electricity business pilot, Hangzhou quickly established Cross-border E-commerce Industrial Park, but Guili that the current pilot work is still adaptable, remedial, local innovation, " Cross-border e-commerce has not been used as a new form of trade to make a separate comprehensive system arrangement. The problem of the lack of coordination between traditional business model and Cross-border e-business is not well solved. ”

After the pilot free trade Test zone in Shanghai, Hangzhou is also actively planning to declare the "China Hangzhou online FTA".

Guili said that Hangzhou hopes to promote the liberalization, facilitation and planning of cross-border electronic commerce through system innovation, management innovation and service innovation, to expand the development of comprehensive reform, promote foreign trade, stabilize growth and promote transformation, and provide the Hangzhou experience which can be replicated and popularized.

Original Customs chief engineer: Online free trade zone to land as soon as possible

For this idea of Hangzhou, Yang Guoxun, deputy director of the National Informatization Advisory Committee and former chief engineer of the national General administration of customs, said that this is of great significance to the expansion of the pilot project to deepen the reform of Cross-border electric power.

Yang Guoxun said that the current Cross-border in the field of foreign trade is a solo show, but there are many problems, it is urgent to change the regulatory changes. At this stage, Cross-border online shopping in accordance with the management of mail items, affecting taxes, colleagues mail "for personal use, reasonable quantity" and other old rules, both restrictions on Cross-border online shopping development, but also led to "fragmented" or "generation gap" and so on a large number of gray zone phenomenon. Consumer rights, business data, personal privacy protection and other aspects of the "cross-border" legal application issues, may be more impact on exports.

It is understood that the Shanghai free Trade test area of the financial, communications, education, medical, design, creation and other services trade and investment in the opening and supervision of the first attempt to explore, the management model is basically a line of open, second line control. However, because the scope is limited within the park, the selection of test and investment subject and the scale of test are limited, so we still have to expand the pilot scope in two directions.

In Yang Guoxun's view, there are two options for expanding the Shanghai pilot scheme, one that continues to replicate in its original mode, and the second is the online FTA. “

"It can solve a very large area or all parts of the test problem that must be uniformly carried out simultaneously." Second, medical, education, entertainment and other services should have a large number of people to participate in the problem. Third, financial and all kinds of literature and art, animation and other online business and virtual products, there is no physical logistics, and regional card is not related to the "second line" problem, especially the current financial reform. Four is to solve the need to participate in the test of the enterprise not in the experimental area and so on. Yang Guoxun Lists the advantages of a network of free trade test zones.

And for the pilot online free trade Area scheme, he also proposed his own proposal, one is to set up a national service trade and virtual industry Investment negative list, the second in the online financial business system reform and innovation pilot, three in education, medical, literature and other mass participation in the industry pilot ...

"Whether it is to expand the FTA pilot zone or to develop Cross-border e-business, there is an urgent need for effective results." Therefore, to make full use of the current strong reality, Zhejiang (Hangzhou) Online self-trade test area of the general ideas and design, as soon as possible to put into practice. "Yang Guoxun said. (Reporter Chaoxiao)