Official of Customs administration: the inevitable trend of future cross-border trade

China News agency, Zhengzhou, December 19 (reporter Li Zhiquan) and the Chinese export slowdown in sharp contrast is that e-commerce area has maintained a rapid growth trend. Lube, deputy director of the General administration of customs, said in Zhengzhou 19th that e-commerce has developed http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/20707.html "> has become the emerging strategic industry in China, becoming the inevitable trend of cross-border trade development in the future."

On the day of the "National Cross-border Trade E-commerce service pilot work" to launch the deployment meeting, Lube to make this statement. He said that in recent years, China's E-commerce has shown an explosive growth. According to the Ministry of Commerce statistics, China's E-commerce transaction volume reached 5.88 trillion yuan in 2011, is nearly 4 times times 5 years ago. Among them, Cross-border e-commerce growth of more than 30% per annum.

Lube said that the rapid development of cross-border trade E-commerce, also led to the rapid growth of customs shipments, mail supervision, as of the end of November this year, customs shipments, mail imports and exports have more than 310 million packages, in the overall growth of foreign trade in the case of a slowdown, still compared with the same period last year 17.5%.

But at the same time, some contradictions and problems that restrict development are gradually appearing. Lube pointed out that on the one hand, the social and business requirements to further improve the efficiency of customs clearance, reduce trade costs, solve the foreign trade, tax refund difficult problems; On the other hand, the rapid growth of Cross-border Express and Mail has also brought new challenges to the supervision of customs.

Lube said that the current situation of China's foreign trade exports is grim, this January-November, Foreign trade import and export growth of 5.8% per cent, compared with the 10% growth target set at the beginning of 4.2%, the foreign trade situation is still not optimistic. He believes that under the current situation, it is of great significance to carry out the pilot-commerce of cross-border trade, promote the new economic model of e-commerce, and promote the steady growth of foreign trade.

The National Development and Reform Commission led the Joint Ministry of Commerce, the general administration of customs and other eight ministries to jointly carry out the national e-commerce demonstration City electronic Commerce special pilot, Zhengzhou, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Shanghai, Ningbo as a pilot city, 19th start a comprehensive "first try" work.