General Administration of Customs： 56 measures to promote the stability of foreign trade and foreign investment have been effective and the level of customs clearance facilitation has been continuousl

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　　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, spokesman of the General Administration of Customs and director of the Statistics and Analysis Department, introduced that the Customs resolutely implemented the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, concentrated on "six stables" and "six guarantees", made overall plans to prevent and control the epidemic situation at ports and promote the steady growth of foreign trade, further proposed 56 measures to stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment, and continuously improved the level of customs clearance facilitation.

　　First, reform and innovation promote trade facilitation.We will comprehensively promote facilitation measures such as "two-step declaration", "declare in advance", "green channel" and exemption from on-site inspection to improve customs clearance efficiency. In September, the overall customs clearance time for imports and exports in China was 35.02 hours and 1.86 hours respectively, which was 64.04% and 84.87% lower than that in 2017, both of which have decreased for five consecutive months.

　　The second is to find ways to reduce the cost of enterprises.By reducing and exempting the import delay payment, late payment fee and the interest of deferred tax on domestic sales of processing trade goods, the company has reduced and saved nearly 200 million yuan. Especially among the import and export enterprises that use tariff guarantee insurance, SMEs account for about 70%.

　　The third is to accelerate the pilot to promote the development of new formats.Comprehensively promote the regulatory measures for the return of cross-border e-commerce export commodities, and carry out pilot projects for cross-border e-commerce enterprises to export to enterprises. Encourage the central and western regions, the northeast and other places to carry out market procurement trade pilot. In the first three quarters, the import and export through the customs cross-border e-commerce management platform was 187.39 billion yuan, up 52.8%, and the market procurement export was 509.86 billion yuan, up 35.5%.

　　The fourth is to take multiple measures to promote the creation of a new highland for opening up.Vigorously support the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port and Yangshan Comprehensive Bonded Zone, intensify the innovation and replication of customs supervision system in the Pilot Free Trade Zone, and promote the full implementation of global maintenance and remanufacturing business in the comprehensive bonded zone. In the first three quarters, the import and export of the national comprehensive bonded zone was 2.34 trillion yuan, an increase of 15.1%, 14.4 percentage points higher than the growth rate of foreign trade.

　　The fifth is to fully guarantee the import of key products.We will continue to expand the scope of importing countries and commodities, newly approve 5,965 foreign registered enterprises, and increase the import security of important agricultural products and foods such as meat, grain, aquatic products and fruits. In the first three quarters, meat and grain were imported 162.65 billion yuan and 253.36 billion yuan respectively, up by 87.3% and 20.7% respectively.

　　In the next step, the national customs will deepen reform and innovation, do a good job in the work of "six stabilities" and "six guarantees", fully promote the implementation of 56 measures to further stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment, promote the stable development and quality improvement of foreign trade, and make positive contributions to promoting the formation of a new development pattern.