From February 1 automatic import license paperless customs clearance range extended to all the count

Published: 2016-02-01 Source: Department of Commerce press office

To increase the steady growth of foreign trade policy to implement structural adjustment efforts to enhance the level of trade facilitation, recently, the Ministry of Commerce and General Administration of Customs announced, with effect from February 1, 2016, will automatically import license paperless clearance by the scope of the current 10 customs extended to all the country's customs.

Paperless clearance steady growth of foreign trade is to implement structural adjustment work of important initiatives. In 2014, the State Council on two policy documents support the steady growth of foreign trade and the strengthening of imports made it clear to "the implementation of paperless clearance operations, speed up customs clearance," "speed up the automatic import license administration commodity pilot paperless customs clearance." To promote the implementation of trade facilitation measures, since 2015, the Ministry of Commerce and General Administration of Customs import automatically in Shanghai and other 10 pilot license paperless customs clearance, release Use complete development platform for applications for new issue provide an institutional guarantee and technical support, has organized several national issuing agencies and local enterprises to develop e-Cert license test run special training, it is widely publicized to ensure that the policy does not fall aliasing.

By the end of 2015, the National automatic import licenses were issued more than 75,000 copies of the e-Cert, accounting for nearly 60 percent of all automatic import license. To strengthen the policy impact assessment, the Ministry of Commerce have conducted a pilot survey of the conditions and related business surveys. The issuing authority and card-related business generally reflects the relative paper certificates, permits electronic certificates reshaped clearance process, the application is more convenient, the issue of more open and transparent, and customs clearance more smoothly and efficiently. Business survey showed that nearly 98 percent of card-related companies expressed satisfaction with the pilot. Currently, the pilot running smoothly, as across the country to lay the foundation.

Recently held 2016 national import and export work will be presented, one of the key foreign trade of the coming period is to increase efforts to implement foreign trade policy. To speed up the process of trade facilitation, effectively reducing the burden for enterprises to help the Ministry of Commerce will continue to work with the General Administration of Customs actively and steadily, orderly fashion paperless customs clearance work.