Processing trade is an important driving force to promote the sustainable growth of regional foreign trade scale and also an important way to utilize foreign funds. As a major province of foreign trade, Jiangsu's processing trade has grown from scratch and from weak to strong, accounting for about 30% of the total foreign trade volume of the province.
With the continuous development of processing trade enterprises to a more efficient and intensive modern production and operation mode, the demands of enterprises have gradually changed——
"The cost advantage of traditional processing trade factors is no longer prominent, and we hope that the bonded operation mode can be more low-cost and efficient."
"We hope that through technological empowerment, enterprises can be provided with timely guidance on standardized operation and reduce manual errors."
"When handling processing trade business, we also hope to maintain more convenient and faster online communication with the customs."
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Facing the "demands" of enterprises for high-quality development of processing trade, it is urgent to innovate the service concept and mode of customs bonded supervision with more intelligent means. In line with the trend of digital economy transformation, Nanjing Customs has pushed forward the "Smart Customs Power" action. Aiming at pre-auxiliary norms and services, and focusing on bonded business scenarios centered on government-enterprise interaction, Nanjing Customs worked together with Suzhou local government to build the "Baofutong" bonded service platform (hereinafter referred to as "Baofutong" platform) in combination with the relative concentration of Jiangsu's processing trade in Suzhou, which optimizes various business scenario services for processing trade in one stop.
"Following the detailed policy interpretation and operation guidelines, we have reduced the financial pressure of RMB 6.5 million in one go and directly shortened the business handling time by two weeks." On May 9, Zhao Lijuan, a customs officer of AU Optronics (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., opened the "Baofutong" platform and saw that the Suzhou Industrial Park Customs under Nanjing Customs had just released a small class for processing trade, interpreting the preferential policy of "exemption from guarantee deposit for enterprises with advanced customs certification carrying out whole-process outsourcing processing" and providing specific operation methods. Under the operation guidance of "Baofutong" platform, the company successfully completed the business free from guarantee deposit for outsourcing processing.
"The 'Baofutong' platform provides system technical support, logical verification and convenient services for the compliance declaration and healthy operation of enterprises' medium-term bonded business through the 'one chain', 'one network', 'one click' and 'one stop' of the platform, and promotes the information-based, intensive and intelligent medium-term bonded management of the enterprises." According to Tan Zhijun, Director of the Suzhou Industrial Park Customs Office in Loufeng, for the "Baofutong" platform: The "one chain" empowers data storage, and transforms data collation into direct data connection, and manual screening into system verification through technologies such as blockchain, electronic signature and system watermarking, thus improving the document making quality and efficiency of enterprises; the "one network" enables series connection with inventory verification to realize automatic locking, automatic calculation and automatic verification of relevant data, thus helping enterprises declare accurately and truthfully; the "one click" enables enterprises to directly enjoy the bonded policies, links processing trade policy documents by classification and summary, supports label-based fuzzy screening of business type, and supports label-based accurate screening of enterprise type; the "one stop" coordinates the innovation in modes, so that enterprises' self-examination and evaluation and timely correction are served through the "three-diagnosis linkage" mode and that data confidentiality, traceability and tampering prevention are ensured through innovation in notarization destruction.
Suzhou Huaxing Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. has also benefited from this policy. "In the past, when handling tasks such as changing storage places, adjusting the cycle of accounting books and checking inventory, paper materials must be submitted to the customs in person. We sometimes have to run a second errand if the materials are not complete. Now, through the "Baofutong" platform, we can make documents directly online, follow up the progress in time and conduct logical verification. The overall business process is visualized and transparent, which improves the efficiency of business handling." said Lu Jue, customs manager of the company.
The "Baofutong" platform focuses on building standardized security service scenarios, and continues to carry out follow-up evaluation and dynamic optimization to help the compliance declaration and standardized operation of processing trade business. Since its launch, it has benefited more than 480 foreign trade enterprises in Suzhou.
According to statistics, in the first four months this year, Jiangsu Province's import and export value in processing trade expanded 11.4% year-on-year to reach RMB 553.67 billion, making up 31.5% of the province's total. Next, Nanjing Customs will deeply implement the "Smart Customs Power" action, continue to upgrade the platform functions, address the practical needs of enterprises for modern production and operation and burden relief and alleviation, continue to explore and expand application scenarios of the system, and conduct mechanism and model innovations, so as to help guide enterprises to enjoy more service measures "intelligently", and promote the sustained high-quality development of processing trade.
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