CCTV news: From March 1 this year, the new version of the "Cross-border E-commerce Retail Import Commodities List" was officially implemented, and 29 new goods 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.
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.
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 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 a cumbersome process 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 is transferred to the region, allowing consumers to return packages into the area, and sorting, return declaration, listing and other processes are carried out in the area, and the innovative supervision mode of the cross-border e-commerce return center warehouse makes the return time and process more shortened and optimized.
Hu Haomiao, chief of the first section of cross-border e-commerce in Zhengzhou New District Customs, which belongs to Zhengzhou Customs: Speed up the time for returning goods into the area. Compared with before, our customs clearance time has been compressed by 2-5 days, which is more than one-third of the compression.
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.
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: Through such a new format and new model of cross-border e-commerce retail imports, we can promote the recovery and return of consumption, so that the domestic market and the international market are integrated, and foreign goods are a good supplement to domestic goods.
Source: CCTV