From March 1 this year, the new version of the "Cross-border E-commerce Retail Import List" was officially implemented, and 29 new items were added to the adjusted list, including ski equipment, tomato juice and other goods with strong consumer demand in recent years. The implementation of the new policy not only meets the diversified needs of consumers, but also brings new development opportunities to some businesses.
Cross-border e-commerce retail imported goods list adds new products Merchants are busy stocking
Ms. Liu of Beijing has been buying cross-border goods for five or six years, and at the beginning she mainly bought some maternal and infant goods, and with the continuous supplement of the mainland's "Cross-border E-commerce Retail Import List" in recent years, she has also begun to buy more categories of cross-border goods.
Many merchants said that after the implementation of the new version of the list, they immediately communicated with overseas merchants and signed contracts, and in the future, these 29 new goods can be prepared to the domestic bonded area, which greatly reduces the delivery time of merchants.
Liu Yingqi, head of international business investment development of an e-commerce platform: Under the incentive of this new national policy, we have more platforms and more opportunities to cooperate with overseas merchants, which means that a large number of overseas brands will enter China through cross-border e-commerce channels.
Xu Qing, director of the public affairs department of an e-commerce platform: For the platform, with the support of such favorable policies, we will actively introduce new products, taking the data of last year as an example, we have introduced more than 5,000 new brands.
It is understood that since the introduction of the "Cross-border E-commerce Retail Import Commodities List" in 2016, it has undergone several adjustments, and after this adjustment, the number of goods in the list has reached more than 1400.
The scale of cross-border e-commerce has grown rapidly, and services such as traceability returns have been improved
The cross-border e-commerce retail import business has developed rapidly, but the consequent problems of difficult return of goods and long cycles have also been plaguing consumers and merchants. Recently, there have been new changes in the timing and process of returns in some places.
After consumers purchase cross-border goods, once they need to return goods, they often need to go through cumbersome processes and more than 20 days of return and exchange time. At the same time, because the returned goods have completed the customs clearance procedures as personal items, if the merchant cannot deal with it in time, it will also face a large amount of payment loss and tax burden.
In order to solve this problem, in the Zhengzhou area of the Henan Pilot Free Trade Zone, the return warehouse outside the special customs supervision area will be transferred to the region, allowing consumers to return packages into the area, and carrying out sorting, return declaration, listing and other processes in the area, this cross-border e-commerce return center warehouse innovative supervision model, so that the return time and process are shortened and optimized. Hu Haomiao, head of the first section of cross-border e-commerce in Zhengzhou New Area, which belongs to Zhengzhou Customs, said that compared with before, the customs clearance time was compressed by 2 to 5 days, which was more than one-third.
Up to now, the Henan Free Trade Zone has set up 5 cross-border e-commerce retail import return center warehouses, and the value of goods returned into the area is nearly 200 million yuan.
Zhi Yanhui, general manager of Henan Zhengzhou Free Trade Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd., said that before the opening of the cross-border e-commerce return center warehouse, they only provided return processing services for five or six merchants. At present, they have provided cross-border e-commerce return processing services for more than 200 merchants on multiple platforms.
Customs data show that in 2021, China's cross-border e-commerce imports and exports will reach 1.98 trillion yuan, an increase of 15% over the previous year. While the scale is growing and the variety is rich, e-commerce companies are also constantly improving the quality of services such as product traceability and returns.
Hong Yong, associate researcher of the Institute of E-commerce of the Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce: We can promote the recovery and return of consumption through cross-border e-commerce retail imports of this new format and new model, so that the domestic market and the international market can be integrated with each other. Foreign goods are also a good supplement to domestic goods.
Source: CCTV Finance