Xinmin Evening News (Reporter Guo Jianfeng) Today, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's work "Pumpkin", as the first batch of bonded display artworks of the fourth circumference of the Shanghai Customs District, successfully exited the freight bayonet of Nichikura North Road in waigaoqiao free trade zone and officially embarked on the road of participating in the Expo.
Photo: The first batch of cultural artworks of the Fourth CIIE Wang Yan / Photo (the same below)
On the basis of consolidating and deepening the successful experience of the supervision and service guarantee of the previous three CIIE, the Customs of Shanghai Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone focused on the requirements of "promoting trade upgrading, industrial upgrading, consumption upgrading, and opening up and upgrading", focusing on the core industries of the region such as biomedicine, intelligent manufacturing and cultural artworks, relying on the functional advantages of special supervision areas, vigorously promoting the implementation of relevant preferential policies of the General Administration of Customs, and actively providing customs clearance, supervision, consulting and other services under the background of normalized epidemic prevention and control, and encouraging bonded goods to actively participate in the Expo. Go all out to do a good job in the customs supervision and service work of the Fourth CIIE.
In order to support the participation of works of art, collectibles and antiquities in the China International Import Expo, the General Administration of Customs has introduced facilitation measures to allow temporary entry exhibits or bonded exhibitions to participate in the exhibition, and can also enjoy preferential tax policies for the sale of cultural relics and exhibits that are allowed to be purchased during the exhibition period. The customs of the bonded zone actively implements the 15 facilitation measures supported by the General Administration of Customs to support the fourth China International Import Expo in 2021, makes full use of the policy superposition advantages of the pilot free trade zone and the special customs supervision area of the customs, and does a good job in the full-chain customs clearance facilitation service of the exhibits of the Expo" of "entering the area - going out of the area to participate in the exhibition - returning to the area", and further expanding and strengthening the scale of bonded display business.
At the relevant business site, a special window and inspection channel for customs declaration of exhibits entering the Expo are set up, and a unified version of the logo is hung to provide green channel "zero waiting" services for exhibitors and goods, so as to ensure that the exhibited goods can be quickly inspected and released in customs clearance, inspection, bonded supervision, material control and other links.
The implementation of a diversified tax guarantee system, enterprises through the provision of guarantees, can be transported to the Expo bonded goods in the zone for display, after the completion of the exhibition of goods back to the zone, the system automatically returns the enterprise guarantee amount, to achieve the whole process of bonded, simplifying the exhibits in and out of the area business processing process, and because the goods can be stored in the bonded warehouse in the zone in advance, but also to avoid the long-distance transportation may lead to the arrival time uncertainty problem, further enhance the bonded display enterprise service quality and competitiveness, to attract more enterprises in the zone to actively participate in the Expo.
Pictured: Customs officers supervise the cultural artworks exhibited
This year, according to the actual experience of the last CIIE, Shanghai Customs completed the upgrading and transformation of the cross-border trade big data platform into the Expo window, added paperless modules such as sales confirmation and exhibition carry-over to bonded goods during the exhibition period, improved and optimized the pre-entry function of the certification letter, further improved the correlation between the customs system, strengthened the contrast between the previous data, and realized the seamless docking, automatic comparison, accurate prompting and retrospective query of the data in each link. Through the cross-border trade management big data platform and information technology, the whole process supervision service is provided for the exhibitors and exhibits information of the import expo, which improves the information interaction between the on-site customs and the exhibitors, and creates a digital, intelligent, convenient and intensive whole-process supervision service model of the import expo.
After learning that the enterprise in the zone, Shanghai Free Trade Zone International Cultural Investment and Development Co., Ltd., as a partner of the cultural sector, the customs of the free trade zone served in the front, practiced "I do practical things for the masses", timely publicized the relevant facilitation measures of the Expo to enterprises, ensured that high-quality art and collectible exhibits "deserved to enjoy" preferential policies, and expanded the spillover effect of the exhibition to lay a solid foundation. Not only that, in order to cooperate with the warm-up of the cultural sector of the Fourth CIIE, the Customs of the Free Trade Zone also took many measures to ensure that the first Shanghai Free Trade Zone Art Season opened at the Shanghai International Art Bonded Service Center in the Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone on October 12, releasing the potential of the Expo in advance and promoting more overseas galleries, art institutions and other cultural and artistic enterprises to appear at the Expo.
In the fourth CIIE, representative enterprises of several core industries such as cultural artworks, biomedicine and intelligent manufacturing will be exhibited in the Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone, and their Chinese artworks will be exhibited for the first time through special regulatory areas. Ciie expo is not only a display of goods and technologies in different countries (regions), but also a cultural and artistic exchange event. Relying on the unique policy advantages of the waigaoqiao free trade zone, the customs of the free trade zone makes use of the advantages of the free trade zone's opening up to the outside world and the allocation of resources, strives to promote the development of the cultural industry in Shanghai and even the whole country, actively plays the role of "window", "experiment" and "demonstration" in the process of China's institutional opening up, promotes China's international competitiveness in the field of culture and art industry and further integrates into the global cultural and art market, fully demonstrates the diversified industrial layout of the bonded area and the development direction of the continuous transformation and upgrading of the regional economy.