Key second year Shanghai FTA "looking at Enterprises"

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What is the Shanghai FTA going to do in the crucial second year?

The first year of the FTA is "catching eyeball", building up the basic frame of the system innovation of four key areas and running. The second year is to "look at the enterprise", through the experience of enterprises to truly reflect the results of the system innovation of the FTA.

Combined with the content of the third party assessment and the three-year development plan of the FTA, the second Shenjiang forum held October 25, Li Shaojie, deputy director of Shanghai FTA, issued the above viewpoint.

For example, in order to safeguard the innovation of the FTA, as far as the tax system is concerned, it is urgent to initiate institutional arrangements or tax reforms which are in line with the promotion of international investment and trade facilitation.

How to evaluate the FTA

On the first anniversary of the FTA, a corresponding third party assessment was initiated. Third-party assessment is divided into three types: one is the development Research center of the State Council, the second is the PWC, the third is the university and research institutions including Shanghai Uibe and Sufe. These three systems are evaluated at the same time, but are independent of each other.

At present, the results of the third party assessment have not been disclosed, but in the forum, some of the assessment content has been disclosed.

PwC, one of the participants, said in an assessment of the Shanghai FTA that in the process of investigation of representative foreign-funded enterprises, it is generally believed that the practice of the FTA is a breakthrough government management system innovation, from the regulatory to the service-oriented government transformation, is a major way of thinking, in line with international rules, Market leading role is obvious.

The Shanghai Municipal Government Development Research Center has also evaluated the first anniversary of the Shanghai FTA and submitted a development report to the municipal government of Shanghai on the first anniversary of the trade zone.

Shorin, director of Shanghai Municipal Government Development Research Center, said that the business environment of the FTA was also recognized by foreign-funded enterprises. According to the survey conducted by the Shanghai Municipal Government Development Research Center on the FTA, most of the foreign-funded enterprises think that they have enjoyed the national treatment before admittance, and the negative inventory management measures have played their due effect.

Among them, 88.2% of enterprises believe that the current threshold for registration of enterprises to reduce the conditions, 79.4% of enterprises feel that the need for the license to reduce the material required, 86.1% of enterprises feel the speed of the card processing.

Zhaoxiaore, president of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, said that in November 2013, the newly established enterprises in the FTA accounted for 2.6% of the total foreign-owned companies, rising to 8.6% in March 2014, June 2014 to 12%, and 13.7% from September 2014.

Sufe is also a Third-party evaluation agency, responsible for this assessment is Zhaoxiaore. He said that the economic flows in the FTA, including taxes, revenues and so on, are very good, but not as the main evaluation criteria, mainly around the national strategy, institutional innovation.

Li Shaojie said that the third party assessment also pointed out that the Shanghai FTA has many needs to improve and improve the space, mainly reflected in five aspects: first, it is hoped that through the revision of negative list to further expand market access; second, to further expand the scope of the trial of various types of trade supervision and innovation Third, the progress and dynamics of financial reform need to be further strengthened; four is to further change the government function, the enterprise experience as the principle of improving administrative services; Five is to introduce the reform and innovation of foreign tax system in line with international practice as soon as possible.

What to do the next year

Li Shaojie said that the second year, on the one hand, to further promote the four key areas of institutional innovation deepening and breakthrough, in the investment field to continue to introduce a number of measures to expand the open, on the other hand, to further revise and shorten the negative list.

Shaolinze suggested that to adjust the negative list of optimization, from the form of the United States, South Korea's measures to further shorten the existing negative list, and study the United States policy, change the current negative list, starting from the content of the expansion of the service sector pilot open, the negative list of investment procedures on the content and expression of a clear specification To further enhance transparency.

In the field of trade supervision, Li Shaojie said, the focus is to promote further expansion and deepening of the pilot. For example, to start the general mode of classification and supervision of goods as soon as possible, not always pilot, deepen the construction of a single window of international trade, on the basis of the port environment, and then extend the Single window of international trade to the two ends, and strive for the pilot of international trade ship registration system.

It is understood that the current trade supervision in the field of some reforms, the pilot area is not wide, such as the first entry after the declaration, the enterprise has access requirements, now has been documented more than 300 enterprises in which almost half of the enterprises in use.

Shorin suggested that we should further innovate the concept and means of customs supervision, improve customs efficiency, and establish a differentiated regulatory system which is the core of the credit rating system, so as to combine the supervision benefit with the enterprise integrity.