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Contents:
- The China Customs
- Customs procedures
- Shanghai Customs
- Guangzhou Customs District
- IMPORT & EXPORT procedures
Summary:
China Customs is a government agency that supervises and manages
all arrivals in and departures from the Customs territory of the mainland of
the People's Republic of China.
It exercises a centralized management structure. The mission of China
Customs is to guard the national gateway and provide services. It’s
essential tasks are Customs control, revenue collection, fighting smuggling
and foreign trade statistics compilation. Its specific responsibilities
include revenue collection, fighting smuggling, Customs control, supervision
and management of bond operations for processing trade, foreign trade
statistics compilation, audit-based control and risk management, and port
management.
Currently, the revenue collected by China Customs mainly includes
Customs duties, import VAT, consumption tax and vessel tonnage tax.
China Customs have played an important role in the formulation and
implementation of import and export tariff schedule and preferential tax
policies, CEPA (Closer Economic Partnership Arrangements with Hong Kong SAR
and Macao SAR), FTA negotiations, implementation of rules of origin, zero
import tariff treatment for fruits originating from Taiwan Province and
other relevant policies and measures.
Customs control over processing trade and bond operations is a new
Customs management model which means that, after getting promise from
enterprises that there will be no loss of national revenue, Customs does not
levy duties on their import goods but exerts control over the whole process
of processing until the processed goods are re-exported.
Currently, E-Customs System has been upgraded, switching from H883
to H2000. For E-General-Administration System, they have developed and
applied the sub-systems for import and export statistics compilation, risk
management, enforcement evaluation, revenue analysis and monitoring, prior
warning monitoring, office automation, anti-smuggling investigation, etc.
Shanghai Customs has fully implemented a new clearance model of
“preliminary Customs Clearance; release after actual checking the goods”, in
which e-manifests for customs declaration is accepted instead of the
traditional practice of forestalling customs declaration until the arrival
of goods. With this current model, the average time for Customs clearance is
2 hrs 53 min. which is an 86% improvement over the traditional method. To
date, Shanghai Customs has signed the “Paperless Clearance Agreement” with
1319 companies.
The Import and Export Tariff is a tariff rate table of customs
duty of the imported and exported goods dutiable or free from duty
formulated, released and implemented through the legislative procedures in
conformity with the national tariff policies and economic policies. It is
the legal basis on which the customs levy the customs duty and is also the
specific embodiment of the tariff policies of a country.
Guangzhou Customs District is in Guangzhou, the capital city of
Guangdong Province. Its supervision area takes about one half of the
administrative area of Guangdong Province, including Guangzhou city and
other more than 40 cities and counties in the western and northern part of
Guangdong Province.
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