As an integral part of the overall business environment, the port business environment is directly related to the progress and effectiveness of cross-border trade facilitation, and it needs to be improved to release its development potential.
At present, when evaluating China's business environment, the World Bank will add two more sample cities in the future in addition to the existing two sample cities of Beijing and Shanghai, which will not only improve the coverage and accuracy of sample data, but also put forward a greater test for China to optimize its business environment in an all-round way and participate in the evaluation with high standards.
At the same time, China's "Regulations on Optimizing Business Environment" was implemented on January 1, 22, which put forward higher requirements for building a market-oriented, rule-based and international business environment from the legal level. As an integral part of the overall business environment, the port business environment is directly related to the process and effectiveness of cross-border trade facilitation, and it needs to be improved to release its development potential.
At present, the downward pressure on international trade is huge, and foreign trade operators are facing practical difficulties such as supply chain interruption, poor transportation and reduced orders. It is even more necessary to optimize the business environment at ports, create convenient conditions, enhance market vitality, stabilize enterprise expectations and promote foreign trade development.
Optimizing the business environment of ports:
Optimizing the business environment of ports is indeed a matter of great concern. It should be said that the CPC Central Committee attaches great importance to it and the whole society is also widely concerned. Deputies to the National People's Congress and members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference are also a hot spot of great concern and one of the key work contents of the customs. The relevant work in this regard has achieved substantial results. The related effects are mainly manifested in three aspects:
First, the overall customs clearance time for import and export goods is shorter. Coordinate the prevention and control of epidemic situation and promote customs clearance, and guide local port offices and customs to fully implement various customs clearance facilitation measures on the basis of strict implementation of epidemic prevention. We will continue to optimize the procedures for customs clearance at ports, push key ports to announce the operating time limit, and comprehensively promote customs clearance modes such as "declare in advance" and "two-step declaration".
in qualified ports, we will steadily push forward the pilot projects of "direct pick-up by ship" for imported goods and "direct loading on arrival" for exported goods, popularize the centralized image review mode of machine inspection, expand the scope of intelligent map review, and improve the intelligent level of port management.
in p>222, the overall customs clearance time for imported and exported goods was 32.2 hours and 1.3 hours respectively, which was 67.13% and 91.6% lower than that in 217.
Second, the import and export costs are lower. We will promote the standardization and reduction of compliance costs in import and export links, strengthen cross-departmental coordination, promote the implementation of the Action Plan for Clearing and Regulating Maritime Port Charges, urge all localities to conscientiously implement the publicity system of port charge list and update it dynamically, and promote the openness and transparency of port charges. The close cooperation of various departments at the national level has effectively promoted the reduction of port charges.
according to the calculation of relevant departments, only the fee reduction of pilot agencies in coastal ports can save a lot of money for relevant enterprises every year. At present, China's port charges are lower than those of neighboring countries such as Japan and Singapore, and much lower than those of European and American countries.
thirdly, it is more convenient to go through the import and export procedures. Deepen the construction of a "single window" for international trade, continue to promote the coordination and simplification of cross-border trade data and documents, promote inter-departmental information sharing, business collaboration and process optimization, and create a "one-stop" service platform for enterprises and people.
On-line import tariffs cooperate with a number of cross-departmental applications, such as online verification and joint boarding of ships, and the operation process is changed from "series" to "parallel" to realize one-window acceptance, joint inspection and whole-process tracking feedback. Up to now, the "single window" of international trade has been connected with 3 departments.
819 services in 22 categories were launched, with more than 6.2 million registered users and 17 million daily business declarations, which basically achieved full coverage of port law enforcement services and met the "one-stop" business handling needs of enterprises.
The People's Republic of China and the Central People's Government of China have achieved substantial results in optimizing the business environment at ports.