Small micro-importers and exporters to lighten the burden

In the context of the tightening of China's import and export foreign trade demand, the Cross-border electricity Trader's mode of trading is unexpectedly "hot".

August 29, the Ministry of Commerce website posted news, the State Council recently forwarded to the Ministry of Commerce and other departments, "on the implementation of Cross-border E-commerce retail export policy advice" (hereinafter referred to as the "opinion") put forward 6 specific measures for Cross-border electrical business exports in the customs, inspection and quarantine, taxation and collection and payment of the specific measures proposed, Including customs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Commerce and other 9 ministries coordinated development.

This is the first time the Ministry of Commerce formally to the Cross-border E-commerce clear policy support.

Since the publication of the opinion, 5 cities such as Shanghai, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Ningbo and Zhengzhou, which have carried out Cross-border trade e-commerce Customs service, have started to try new policies. Since October 1, 2013, these policies have been implemented throughout the country in conditions.

The National Development and Reform Commission data show that 2011 Cross-border E-commerce turnover reached 1.6 trillion yuan, an increase of 33%, 2012 Cross-border turnover of more than 2 trillion yuan, year-on-year growth of more than 25%, the growth rate is much higher than the same period of foreign trade growth.

Local governments scramble for pilots

"The general direction of this opinion defines the trend of trade facilitation in service intensification." "Although for Shenzhen unsuccessful first pilot city, a little regret, Shenzhen, a Xiaofeng Enterprise Services Co., Ltd. deputy general manager of the" opinion "is still not conceal the affirmation.

He is a company specializing in the import and export enterprises to provide trade declaration, finance, tax rebate comprehensive services provider, since last year, the state Ministry of Commerce, Guangdong Provincial government departments have several times to the enterprise for investigation, the main purpose is to explore the Cross-border electrical business service flow.

It is reported that in the first batch of pilot cities in the declaration, divided into two types of declarations: one is the market-oriented platform, the other is the government-led platform. People close to the situation said the first selected cities were selected for active reporting by the government-led platform.

According to Xiaofeng revealed that the Shenzhen government has begun to carry out a second pilot declaration, including in the former maritime area of the Southern electronic ports and other projects have been included in the declaration materials. The aim is to catch up with the next pilot on October 1.

Danyang, spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce, said earlier that the current Cross-border E-commerce in China is mainly divided into enterprises (is commonly referred to business-to-business) and enterprises to consumers (is the consumer) trade model, the policy focus on the direct production of the business model. Such transactions amounted to $2.08 trillion in 2012, according to a disclosure of public information. But at the same time, this kind of transaction mainly uses the aviation small package, the mail, The courier and so on the way, but before the most is outside the customs registration.

The fiery development of the foreign trade to provide a new way of thinking, the views clearly can be seen in order to better serve such enterprises, the government management has carried out the reform of the regulatory process and demonstrated the attitude of encouragement.

From the open opinion of the Ministry of Commerce can be extracted from the interpretation of this policy highlights include several aspects: process supervision and innovation-the establishment of a new regulatory model, the customs of the main business of the export commodities centralized supervision, and take the list of nuclear release, summary declaration of the way to deal with customs formalities, reduce the E-commerce export enterprises and their products will be the inspection and quarantine record or access management, the use of third-party inspection and accreditation bodies for product quality and safety of conformity assessment. The implementation of the full declaration system, the main quarantine supervision, general industrial products no longer carry out the law inspection. The implementation of centralized declaration, the centralized handling of relevant inspection and quarantine procedures of the facilitation measures; financial liberalization-will allow the main business to apply for the establishment of foreign exchange accounts, with customs declaration information for the export of goods to the settlement business;

"Among them, the centralized supervision of customs and the reform of the summary declaration, we have a clear positive." Xiaofeng example, in the past a package if there are 10 products, in the customs clearance, the need for each commodity to print a separate declaration, a single declaration dozens of yuan. The new rules can be summed up to declare, not only save costs, but also save time for customs declaration.

Policy environment heats up

In fact, how to maintain the steady development of nearly 4 trillion economic aggregates, seek new growth point of foreign Trade Development, the Government management department has not stopped to explore the footsteps. September 16, 2012 Office of the State Council issued a "on the promotion of stable growth of foreign trade," a number of views, including "reduction of legal inspection and Quarantine catalogue" "norms and reduce the import and export link charges" and other policies have passed the "trade facilitation" to enhance the efficiency of import and export trade.

But unfortunately, the reporter learned from some foreign trade companies, some of the policy only implemented a quarter of the suspension. Since January 2013, AQSIQ's newly promulgated inspection scope has expanded to 4491 species. The Ministry of Commerce Research Institute Ma Yu has said that, according to its statistics, the annual commodity inspection fee totals more than 10 billion yuan.

Entering the 2013, the import and export situation still did not have the trend to improve. Despite previous data from the Ministry of Commerce, 2013 1 ~ July, China's import and export value of 14.7 trillion yuan (equivalent to 2,351,760,000,000 U.S. dollars), excluding exchange rate factors (same below) growth of 8.5%. But some insiders said that because of the April trade data of the abnormal rebound caused by the query on the statistics, the actual situation of foreign trade may be weaker than the data show.

At this time, from the Ministry of Commerce to the State Council, the caliber of the policy recommendations began to appear repeatedly.

The State Council issued on July 26 on the promotion of export and import stability growth, a number of views on the structure of the transfer referred to the problems encountered by the Cross-border electricity dealers and the experience gained, and called for "active research on customs supervision, tax refund, inspection, foreign exchange payments and statistics, etc. in the export of goods through cross-border electronic commerce, and improve relevant policies." , we should take the pilot to advance the development of Cross-border e-business.

Then Minister of Commerce, Gao, in an interview with the media to classify Cross-border E-commerce as a number of new potential trade and new services, said the Ministry of Commerce will actively support.

August 19 ~ 23rd, the title of the National E-commerce Demonstration unit was called to Beijing, in the Ministry of Commerce for a week of trade training in E-commerce services.

August 23, at the Ministry of Commerce's routine press conference, Danyang, a spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce, spoke again of the importance of cross-border electricity dealers, and highlighted specific measures that the Ministry of Commerce is studying and preparing to promote, including "standardizing the trading system, developing trade standards, strengthening online payments, improving Cross-border logistics, Electric Dealer Export drawback "five aspects."

August 26, the National Electronic Commerce Standardization General group convened the reorganization meeting. It is understood that this by the National Standardization Management Committee, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce after the reorganization, will be responsible for the development of "National Electronic Commerce Standards System" in the relevant Cross-border electricity business, including: Electronic commerce Cross-border Small electronic documents basic information standards, Cross-border e-commerce Import and export clearance business process norms Standard of service quality evaluation for cross-border e-commerce platform.

August 29, "opinions" published.

Small Micro First try

Cross-border electricity business is a kind of foreign trade form known as "small foreign trade". This form first started in the country in 2005, mainly in the transaction between the two parties through the Internet to reach transactions through PayPal and other Third-party payment methods. As a result of many buyers for the individual, small amount of trading products, small transactions, such trade was mainly through DHL, FedEx and other Express way to complete the delivery, forming a different from the traditional trade process of import and export trading methods.

If from a typical international product line for example, a key chain in the domestic 1 yuan, exported to Australia is 1 Australian dollars, and 5 yuan. Suppose its sales terminal is a Community store boutique, which usually has a gross profit margin of 35%. Distributor Gross profit margin 20%, importer gross profit margin of 15%. In general, if the target price is 1 Australian dollars, then the supermarket purchase price is 0.65 Australian dollars, the distributor purchase price of 0.45 Australian dollars, importers purchase price of 0.35 Australian dollars (CIF price including logistics costs), so in accordance with the international normal business channel profit distribution, Manufacturers should be the price of 0.35 AUD, 1.75 yuan (CIF), minus all the intermediate costs, the factory price should be 1.65 yuan/a.

And in the domestic Yiwu small commodity market Mr. Chen's ex-factory price of 0.60 yuan, because there are brands, manufacturers will be in accordance with the retail price of 80 percent quotes, the guests will bargain in 70 percent transactions, that is, each key chain factory prices 0.70 Yuan/A, Domestic logistics inspection plus 0.10 yuan, fob price of 0.80 yuan, plus tax rebate, plus 0.09 yuan, the factory actual factory price of 0.89 yuan/a. Regardless of the export tax rebate factor, originally factory factory price can be the lowest is 1.65 yuan, but in fact his factory price is less than 0.90 yuan, the middle of 0.95 yuan, almost the manufacturer's appearance price 1 time times!

This model was quickly accepted by the market. 2008, the United States Customs and Border Patrol released data, in 2008, the United States, the largest 3,000 importers of the market share is from the stable 73% per cent decline to 66%, and 2008, a single purchase of the number of importers accounted for 45%. This means that a small number of importers dominate the import market and the situation is changing. At home, the Orchid Pavilion, which operates in this mode, has been listed on the NYSE this June 7.

This model, in particular, has benefited smaller importers and exporters, with the obvious advantage of reducing trading links, but the disadvantages are difficult to regulate and regulate.

"Although the new ideas have taken into account the characteristics of such trade and optimized it in the process, the concrete implementation still needs further refinement." "Xiaofeng view, the current opinion still does not have the clear definition to the trade declaration main body, the individual, the trader or the factory can, this relates to the product retrospective responsibility determination degree; for some high intellectual property risk products are not specifically identified ... These appear to be uncertainties that will affect trade efficiency in future implementation.

"Yiwu obtain the approval of the ' market procurement ' model will be exported are classified as tourist souvenirs is a good precedent, should be from some commodities, some platform to gradually promote the pilot." "he said. However, in his view, the current "innovation" in the field of Cross-border electric power, is to achieve trade facilitation for general trade first pilot.