A reporter from China Tibet News learned from Lhasa Customs that since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, Lhasa Customs has resolutely implemented the measures of the General Administration of Customs to promote the steady growth of foreign trade, combined with the actual economic and social development of Tibet, through the policy and service “combined boxing”, to protect Tibet Foreign trade enterprises resume work and resume production.
The picture shows Lhasa customs officers supervising the export of agricultural and sideline products. Picture provided by Lhasa customs “Non-contact” handling customs business
Certificate of origin is called “economic passport” of international trade goods. It is a kind of certificate that proves that the goods are produced or manufactured by a specific country (or region). Export enterprises can enjoy preferential tariff rates of importing countries or regions based on the certificate of origin. During the epidemic prevention and control period, in order to ensure that foreign trade enterprises can handle customs business in an orderly and timely manner, Lhasa Customs implemented a “non-contact” application for certificates of origin.
In the initial filing of the enterprise, guide the enterprise to submit enterprise information online through the entire process of the “Internet + Customs” platform, upload business licenses, Chinese and English seal impressions and other materials. After the customs’ remote audit passes, the filing is successful. After the enterprise submits the electronic application for the certificate of origin, the customs officer remotely verifies the accuracy of the enterprise information and prints, signs, and seals, and sends the printed certificate of origin to the enterprise by post to achieve “no meeting, online processing, express delivery “.
“Precision Inspection” helps speed up and resume production of key projects
“Hello, we have a batch of complete equipment that requires customs to conduct on-site inspection. The goods will soon arrive at the Qamdo project site. We are in the hurry, can we inspect our equipment as soon as possible.” The staff of Tibet Changdu Basu Conch Cement Co., Ltd. to Lhasa Customs advisory. The Basu Conch Cement Project is a key project for poverty alleviation in Changdu, Tibet Autonomous Region, with a total investment of 1.2 billion yuan. The complete equipment mentioned on the phone is a batch of grate coolers from Germany with a value of 1.76 million euros and a total weight of 95 tons. 28 packages are the key imported equipment for the entire cement project.
To help the project speed up and resume production, Lhasa Customs designated a special person to provide policy consulting services to the enterprise, organize business backbones, and accurately formulate inspection plans. Thousands of miles traveled to Basu County, Changdu City, Tibet Autonomous Region for the first time, effectively avoiding the “empty period” of equipment waiting for inspection. At the same time, overtime and overtime will compress the inspection tasks that would take about 3 days to complete. Customs inspection work.
In-depth research and listening to the “voices” of foreign trade enterprises
Tibet Plateau Natural Water Co., Ltd. is a poverty alleviation project of the state-owned Sinopec Group to assist the development and investment of Tibet’s advantageous resources. The “Zolma Spring” natural glacier drinking water produced by it is sold at home and abroad. The customs service of Lhasa Customs “progressed service”, actively visited the key foreign trade enterprise to understand the resumption of production and production of the enterprise, listened to the difficulties in the equipment import and product export of the enterprise, and announced to the enterprise seven supports for the stable growth of Tibet ’s foreign trade Measures.
Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, Lhasa Customs has conducted surveys with more than 50 foreign trade companies through questionnaire surveys, enterprise surveys, and interviews. In order to alleviate the capital turnover pressure caused by the new crown epidemic in foreign trade enterprises, and allow enterprises to truly enjoy the “real gold and silver” policy dividend, and help them to resume production, Lhasa Customs provides “one-to-one” policy announcements and other services to actively guide enterprises to use Make full use of various favorable policies such as tariff rebates and tariff reductions. At present, through the implementation of various preferential tax policies issued by the General Administration of Customs on tariff rebate to the United States and Canada, it is expected that more than 2.5 million yuan will be refunded to enterprises.
Next step, Lhasa Customs will further strengthen the policy promotion and tailor-made services for foreign trade enterprises, actively invigorate the confidence of enterprise development, and help the plateau foreign trade enterprises to resume production and production, and effectively play the role of Lhasa Customs’ oxygen supply. (China Tibet Network reporter / Wang Yuanyuan correspondent / Wang Xinyuan), Learn more about Tibet tour, China travel.