General Administration of Customs： New formats such as cross-border e-commerce have become an important force to stabilize foreign trade.

Li Kuiwen, spokesperson of the General Administration of Customs and director of the Statistical Analysis Department.　

　　CCTV News:On October 13th, the State Council held a press conference on import and export in the first three quarters. In response to a reporter’s question, Li Kuiwen, spokesperson of the General Administration of Customs and director of the Statistics and Analysis Department, said that as a new trade format, cross-border e-commerce has played a positive role for foreign trade enterprises to cope with the impact of the epidemic. During the epidemic, the import and export trade volume of cross-border e-commerce did not fall, but rose, becoming an important force to stabilize foreign trade. In the first three quarters, China’s import and export through the customs cross-border e-commerce management platform was 187.39 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 52.8%. The customs constantly innovates and optimizes the supervision system to support the healthy and orderly development of new formats.

　　Innovate to carry out cross-border e-commerce to business (B2B) export pilot, and add 9710 (cross-border e-commerce B2B direct export) and 9810 (cross-border e-commerce export overseas warehouse) trade methods. Starting from July 1st, pilot projects will be carried out in 10 customs offices directly under Beijing, and the innovation achievements of cross-border e-commerce supervision will be extended from B2C to B2B, and customs clearance facilitation measures will be supported. Pilot enterprises can apply such measures as "one-time registration, one-point docking, priority inspection, allowing customs clearance and facilitating return". Small and medium-sized enterprises can choose more convenient customs clearance channels for goods with low single ticket value, and the new regulations can also be applied to goods traded in online exhibitions such as Canton Fair. From September 1st, the pilot scope will be further expanded to 22 directly affiliated customs offices. Since the introduction of the pilot measures for more than two months, the business has been expanding and increasing, and the number of participating enterprises, the number of declaration forms and the value of export goods have steadily increased, which has been widely praised.

　　In addition, there are other related measures, such as expanding and smoothing cross-border e-commerce logistics channels. During the epidemic period, the General Administration of Customs timely issued 10 measures to support the development of China-Europe trains, and supported the use of China-Europe train capacity to carry out cross-border e-commerce, mail and other transportation services. Support the postal department to open temporary postal routes for entry and exit, open 15 temporary exit ports and 13 temporary entry ports, and actively distribute inbound and outbound mail and cross-border e-commerce goods.

　　Also, comprehensively promote the regulatory measures for the return of cross-border e-commerce export commodities. Explore the establishment of efficient, safe and fast cross-border e-commerce export return channels, and fully support cross-border e-commerce export enterprises to "sell the world". Optimize cross-border e-commerce retail import return measures to help enterprises overcome the impact of logistics delays caused by the epidemic.