Guangdong Office Letter [2013] No.665
General Office of Guangdong Provincial People’s Government on Printing and Distributing the Implementation of Guangdong Province
General Office of the State Council on Promoting the Steady Growth of Import and Export and Adjusting the Structure
Notice of several opinions on the implementation plan
People’s governments at the local level and listed, people’s governments of counties (cities, districts), departments and institutions directly under the provincial government:
"Guangdong province to implement the general office of the State Council on promoting the steady growth of imports and exports to adjust the structure of the implementation plan" has been agreed by the provincial people’s government, is hereby issued to you, please seriously implement. Problems encountered in the implementation, please report to the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation.
Provincial general office
November 18, 2013
Guangdong Province implements the General Office of the State Council’s policy on promoting import and export.
Implementation plan of some opinions on stabilizing growth and adjusting structure
In order to conscientiously implement the Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Promoting the Steady Growth of Imports and Exports and Adjusting the Structure (Guo Ban Fa [2013] No.83), accelerate the transformation of the development mode of foreign trade in our province, and maintain the steady growth of foreign trade imports and exports in our province, combined with the actual situation in our province, this implementation plan is formulated.
First, accelerate the facilitation of customs clearance
(1) Expand the "three ones" pilot reform of customs clearance cooperation.Port management departments at all levels actively assisted in promoting the Guangdong Customs and inspection and quarantine units to launch the "Three Ones" pilot project of customs inspection cooperation in the second half of 2013, and expanded it to all qualified ports in the province in 2014, effectively improving the efficiency of customs clearance at ports, reducing customs clearance costs and helping enterprises reduce burdens and increase efficiency. (Guangdong Branch of Customs, entry-exit inspection and quarantine bureaus of Guangdong, Shenzhen and Zhuhai, and provincial port office are responsible)
(2) Accelerate the innovation of regional customs clearance mode.Further deepen the pilot work of paperless reform of customs clearance operations, expand the scope of pilot enterprises to enterprises with B or above customs management, and expand Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Gongbei and Huangpu customs to all business sites and all pilot businesses in the customs area; The customs declaration form under the customs clearance mode of "territorial declaration and port clearance" will be included in the pilot scope of paperless reform of customs clearance operations. Popularize the centralized document examination system for inspection and quarantine, and promote the implementation of the classified customs clearance mode with the characteristics of "intelligent document examination, customized process and automatic processing". (Guangdong Branch of Customs, responsible for entry-exit inspection and quarantine bureaus in Guangdong, Shenzhen and Zhuhai)
(3) Optimize the customs clearance inspection process.Simplify customs bonded supervision procedures, and cancel the Approval Certificate for Processing Trade Business and the Approval Certificate for Domestic Sales of Bonded Imported Materials and Parts for Processing Trade. Classified inspection shall be carried out. Except in special circumstances, the customs shall conduct a low proportion of random checks on the import and export goods of enterprises whose business units are AA managed by the customs and whose reporting units are B or above. (Guangdong Branch of Customs is responsible)
(four) reduce the export inspection catalogue.From August 15th, 2013, 1,551 general manufactured goods under harmonized system code will no longer be subject to export commodity inspection. Simplify administrative examination and approval and registration procedures, and promote automatic collection, electronic supervision and electronic release of inspection and quarantine clearance data. (Guangdong, Shenzhen, Zhuhai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau is responsible)
(5) Promoting the construction of provincial electronic ports.Relying on Guangdong Electronic Port, we will promote the construction of a public information service platform for customs clearance, logistics and foreign trade in foreign trade and economic cooperation (port), customs, inspection and quarantine, border inspection and maritime affairs, so as to realize effective supervision and "one-stop" service for all departments and further improve customs clearance efficiency. (The provincial port office is responsible)
Second, reduce the import and export link charges
(six) strictly implement the export commodity law to reduce the free policy.From August 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013, all exit inspection and quarantine fees for goods, means of transport, containers and other legal inspection and quarantine objects will be completely exempted; Exempt from all kinds of certificate of origin visa fees and production costs. (Guangdong, Shenzhen, Zhuhai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau is responsible)
(seven) reduce administrative fees.Conscientiously implement the 46 policies related to administrative fees that have been cancelled and exempted at the national and provincial levels since the issuance of Document No.83 [2013] of the State Council, and on this basis, continue to intensify efforts to clean up relevant administrative fees and further reduce the burden on enterprises. (Responsible for the Provincial Price Bureau)
(eight) rectification of business service charges.Clean up the charging policies for business services related to import and export, and reduce or cancel some charging standards for business services related to customs clearance. (Responsible for the Provincial Price Bureau)
(nine) to strengthen the supervision and inspection of import and export fees.We will carry out special inspections involving import and export fees, re-approve the fees that enterprises have reflected more intensively according to the principle of "strict and low", and resolutely correct the fees that are ultra vires. Improve the complaint reporting mechanism of import and export charges, promptly accept complaints from enterprises about cases of arbitrary charges in import and export links, intensify the investigation and punishment of reported complaints, and establish a supervision system for cases of arbitrary charges in import and export links. (Responsible for the Provincial Price Bureau)
Third, accelerate the progress of export tax rebate
(ten) reduce the level of tax refund approval.For the prefecture-level listing where the annual export tax rebate (exemption) exceeds 10 billion yuan, the export tax rebate of production-oriented export enterprises and foreign trade enterprises that have applied for export tax rebate business for more than 5 years, have a good reputation record of export tax rebate, and the goods purchased from commercial circulation enterprises in the previous year do not exceed 20% of the total export goods that should be refunded, and the scale of export tax rebate is less than 5 million yuan, can be entrusted to the county (city, district) level national tax department for examination and approval. Simplify the review of document declaration and actively promote the online pre-declaration of tax refund for export enterprises. (Responsible by the Provincial State Taxation Bureau)
(eleven) to broaden the scope of benefit of enterprise classification management.Reduce the classification management rating standard of tax refund (exemption) for export enterprises in the national tax department, and reduce the annual tax refund export standard of A-type production export enterprises in non-Pearl River Delta region from 15-30 million dollars to 10-20 million dollars, and the relevant standards of B-type production export enterprises to 8-10 million dollars; The relevant standards for Class B production export enterprises in the Pearl River Delta region have been reduced from $50 million to $20-30 million. Enterprises rated as Class A management level can apply for tax refund (exemption) with electronic information such as customs declaration, and enterprises rated as Class B management level can first use the certification information of special VAT invoices to review and apply for tax refund (exemption). (Responsible by the Provincial State Taxation Bureau)
(twelve) to speed up the export goods tax correspondence processing.In the same tax period, the national tax department only conducts on-the-spot verification and replies separately for correspondence and investigation of similar products of the same supplier. For the export goods of the same export enterprise, the same export product and the same supplier that do not belong to the "information of special concern" issued by State Taxation Administration of The People’s Republic of China, if the results of the investigation by letter are normal, the investigation by letter may not be repeated within six months when no new doubts are found. (Responsible by the Provincial State Taxation Bureau)
(thirteen) to optimize the tax refund service for export enterprises.Establish a communication platform for key export enterprises of provincial, municipal and county (district) tax departments to provide personalized services. For production-oriented export enterprises with large export volume or export tax rebate, with Class A tax credit rating and meeting the conditions of key export enterprises, the paperless pilot of export tax rebate (exemption) can be carried out first after being reported to the Provincial State Taxation Bureau for approval. Accelerate the progress of tax refund for service trade exports. (Responsible by the Provincial State Taxation Bureau)
Four, accelerate the reform of foreign exchange management and RMB settlement of cross-border trade.
(14) Promoting the reform of the foreign exchange management system.We will continue to deepen the reform of the foreign exchange management system for trade in goods and fully implement the reform of foreign exchange management for trade in services throughout the province. (Guangzhou Branch of the People’s Bank of China is responsible)
(fifteen) to facilitate cross-border financing and foreign exchange fund operation of enterprises.We will further implement preferential policies such as foreign loans raised by Chinese-funded enterprises, domestic loans guaranteed by foreign countries, and centralized operation and management of foreign exchange funds at headquarters of multinational corporations. (Guangzhou Branch of the People’s Bank of China is responsible)
(16) Promote RMB settlement of cross-border trade.Strengthen the publicity and training of cross-border RMB business policies, promote foreign trade enterprises to settle accounts in RMB in international trade, and reduce exchange rate risks. Actively strive for the national level to decentralize the review authority of the list of key supervision enterprises for RMB settlement of export goods trade. (Guangzhou Branch of the People’s Bank of China is responsible)
V. Strengthening financing support
(seventeen) support large enterprises to accelerate development.Actively promote relevant financial institutions to implement the strategic cooperation agreements signed with the provincial government and municipal governments at or above the local level, and strengthen financial services for large-scale backbone foreign trade and economic enterprises. (Responsible for the Provincial Finance Office)
(eighteen) to increase financial services for small and micro enterprises.Fully mobilize and integrate all kinds of financial resources, including banks, securities, insurance and private capital, support enterprises to raise funds through multiple channels, and alleviate the financing difficulties and expensive problems of small and micro foreign trade enterprises. (Responsible for the Provincial Finance Office)
Six, increase the credit insurance support for foreign trade enterprises.
(nineteen) expand the scale and coverage of export credit insurance.Implement a more active underwriting policy and give strong support to enterprises with orders and market demand. We will build a policy support platform covering all localities and small and micro clusters with regional characteristics, increase the assistance of small and micro enterprises, and expand the scale and coverage of export credit insurance. (Guangdong Insurance Regulatory Bureau and Guangdong Branch of China Export Credit Insurance Corporation are responsible)
(twenty) to enhance trade financing promotion services.We will steadily increase the scale of export policy financing and encourage banks to expand policy financing. Expand import financing services, and provide import policy financing and other services for products encouraged to import. We will first try to launch credit insurance policy financing products such as "cross-border trade financing, order financing, financial leasing and project financing". (Guangdong Insurance Regulatory Bureau and Guangdong Branch of China Export Credit Insurance Corporation are responsible)
(twenty-one) support enterprises to "go global".Build a strategic support platform for emerging markets to provide enterprises with all-round service solutions from participation, market information, cooperation channels to risks and financing. Implement special arrangements for financing insurance of large-scale complete sets of equipment, support enterprises to carry out overseas mergers and acquisitions, resource development and build overseas marketing networks and production bases. (Guangdong Insurance Regulatory Bureau and Guangdong Branch of China Export Credit Insurance Corporation are responsible)
(twenty-two) to build a platform to protect the overseas rights and interests of enterprises.Strengthen the analysis and early warning of environmental changes in overseas markets, effectively prevent overseas risks, improve business risk tolerance, further improve the service efficiency of claims recovery, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises. (Guangdong Insurance Regulatory Bureau and Guangdong Branch of China Export Credit Insurance Corporation are responsible)
Seven, support private foreign trade enterprises to accelerate development.
(twenty-three) the implementation of special actions to help small and micro enterprises.Formulate a work plan for key activities to help small and micro enterprises, and carry out special service activities to help small and micro enterprises, including small and micro foreign economic and trade enterprises, from the aspects of policy propaganda, integration of industry and finance, information promotion, management improvement, market development and entrepreneurial innovation. (Responsible for the Provincial Economic and Information Technology Commission and the Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Department)
(twenty-four) improve the public service level of small and medium-sized enterprises.Implement the network construction project of public service platform for small and medium-sized enterprises, the quality improvement project of private entrepreneurs, the informatization promotion project of small and medium-sized enterprises and the management improvement plan of small and medium-sized enterprises, and encourage the provision of public demand services such as import and export policies and regulations and market information training for small and medium-sized enterprises. (Responsible for the Provincial Economic and Information Technology Commission and the Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Department)
(twenty-five) to cultivate and help small and medium-sized (private) enterprises with high growth.Support high-growth small and medium-sized (private) enterprises from the aspects of implementing key projects, encouraging independent innovation, improving brand quality, carrying out listing cultivation, broadening financing channels, and supporting mergers and acquisitions, so as to help high-growth small and medium-sized (private) enterprises explore the market. (Responsible for the Provincial Economic and Information Technology Commission and the Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Department)
(twenty-six) to support the development of foreign trade comprehensive service enterprises.Actively study the customs supervision, inspection and quarantine, tax refund, foreign exchange receipts and payments, statistics and other issues encountered by foreign trade integrated service enterprises, introduce substantive support policies, promote the accelerated development of foreign trade integrated service enterprises, and encourage small and micro private enterprises to reduce the import and export process costs and expand imports and exports with the help of foreign trade integrated service enterprises. (Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, Guangdong Customs Branch, Guangdong, Shenzhen and Zhuhai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureaus, Provincial State Taxation Bureau and Guangzhou Branch of the People’s Bank of China are responsible)
Viii. increase support for exploring the international market
(twenty-seven) to increase financial support for enterprises to explore the market.Make good use of the funds for small and medium-sized enterprises to explore the international market and the supporting special funds in our province, speed up the progress of fund review and disbursement, and focus on increasing support for exploring emerging markets. (Responsible for the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and the Department of Finance)
(twenty-eight) actively carry out trade promotion activities.Organize various activities to explore the international market, use various exhibition platforms to help enterprises seize orders, focus on consolidating the traditional market share of Europe and the United States, and actively expand emerging markets such as Central Asia, Eastern Europe, South America and Africa. (Responsible for the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and CCPIT)
(twenty-nine) improve the mechanism of expanding overseas markets.We will promptly set up economic and trade representative offices in key overseas markets such as Europe and the United States to better assist in organizing overseas trade promotion activities and provide enterprises with market information, policies and regulations and other services. (Provincial Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Department and Finance Department are responsible)
Nine, fully expand imports
(thirty) the implementation of import discount policy.According to the scope and funding period of the Catalogue of Technologies and Products Encouraged to Import in Guangdong Province (2013 Edition), the import discount funds will be implemented to maintain the continuity of the import discount policy. (Responsible by the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation)
(thirty-one) to expand the scope and coverage of import discount.Revise and improve the catalogue of imported technologies and products, add more advanced technologies, equipment and products that meet the needs of foreign trade development and transformation and upgrading, and support the expansion of imports of advanced technologies, key equipment, resource commodities and high-quality consumer goods. (Responsible by the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation)
(thirty-two) to speed up the construction of import service platform.Support Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Zhuhai Free Trade Zones to declare the construction of national import trade to promote innovation demonstration zones, and actively promote the planning and construction of import commodity trading centers. Support the holding of the World Brand Import Expo. Study and introduce policies and measures to support import service platforms and import commodity exhibitions. Increase investment in port infrastructure construction and improve its import customs clearance service capacity. (Responsible for the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, Development and Reform Commission and Port Office)
Ten, vigorously develop cross-border electronic commerce.
(thirty-three) actively implement the national pilot policy.Accelerate the construction of the pilot city of cross-border trade e-commerce services in Guangzhou, strive for the relevant policies to land as soon as possible, and promote the province’s cross-border electronic commerce business to achieve practical results. (Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, Guangdong Branch of Customs)
(thirty-four) to carry out research on mechanism innovation.Actively explore, study and formulate a customs clearance supervision system that conforms to the characteristics of cross-border electronic commerce mode, and a standardized information platform across departments and enterprises to promote business collaboration and data sharing. (Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, Guangdong Customs Branch, Guangdong, Shenzhen and Zhuhai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureaus, Provincial State Taxation Bureau and Guangzhou Branch of the People’s Bank of China are responsible)
(thirty-five) innovative marketing model of foreign trade enterprises.Guide foreign trade production enterprises to enter the supply chain system of cross-border small-scale trade e-commerce platform, and help enterprises to expand import and export by using B2C and C2C cross-border small-scale trade business models. (Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, Guangdong Customs Branch, Guangdong, Shenzhen and Zhuhai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureaus, Provincial State Taxation Bureau and Guangzhou Branch of the People’s Bank of China are responsible)
XI. Promoting the development of market procurement trade
(thirty-six) strive to set up a pilot market procurement trade.Actively strive for the state to set up pilot projects for comprehensive reform of international trade in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other cities, and allow enterprises in the pilot projects to carry out export business in the form of "market procurement". (Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, Guangdong Customs Branch, Guangdong, Shenzhen and Zhuhai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureaus, Provincial State Taxation Bureau and Guangzhou Branch of the People’s Bank of China are responsible)
(thirty-seven) to strengthen the research of supporting policies.According to the characteristics of "market procurement" trade mode, strengthen cross-departmental coordination and communication, and speed up the research and formulation of customs supervision, inspection and quarantine, taxation, foreign exchange settlement and other policies that match the market procurement mode. (Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, Guangdong Customs Branch, Guangdong, Shenzhen and Zhuhai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureaus, Provincial State Taxation Bureau and Guangzhou Branch of the People’s Bank of China are responsible)
XII. Properly Deal with Trade Friction
(thirty-eight) to strengthen overall guidance and coordination.Give full play to the mechanism of the joint meeting of provincial foreign trade and economic cooperation, and make overall plans to promote the province’s response to trade frictions. Further strengthen the guidance and coordination of the province’s trade friction response, and improve the "trinity" trade friction response mechanism of government, industry and enterprises. (Responsible by the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation)
(thirty-nine) to improve the trade friction response system.Optimize and support industry organizations and leading enterprises to set up fair trade grass-roots workstations, support the early warning and monitoring of trade frictions in this industry, coordination of complaints and information consulting services, and give full play to the backbone role of industry associations in dealing with trade frictions. Coordinate all forces and do a good job in legal defense, foreign negotiations, public relations lobbying and so on. Strengthen publicity and training and case guidance for enterprises. Support industry associations to organize enterprises involved in the case to carry out harmless defense, participate in hearings, and negotiate with foreign investigation organs and related industry organizations or enterprises. Strengthen foreign exchanges and negotiations, and unite all parties to resolve trade risks. We will do our best to deal with major cases of trade friction and major cases. (Responsible by the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation)
(forty) the construction of the basic work platform.We will build basic work platforms such as early warning and monitoring of trade friction, research and consultation on technical barriers to trade, promoting the adoption of international standards and advanced foreign standards, and investigating and reviewing trade barriers to provide support for government decision-making and enterprises to deal with trade friction. Build a comprehensive information service platform to deal with trade frictions, and realize information sharing and real-time interaction among governments, associations and enterprises. (Responsible by the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation)
XIII. Safeguard measures
(forty-one) improve the work coordination mechanism.Improve the coordination mechanism for promoting the steady growth of import and export and restructuring in our province, which is led by the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and participated by all relevant units according to the division of functions, coordinate and solve problems in the work in a timely manner, and ensure the formation of joint efforts. All localities should establish and improve the corresponding work coordination mechanism, strengthen the cooperation between departments, and ensure that the work measures are implemented.
(42) Strengthen communication and guidance.All relevant units in the province should strengthen communication and reporting with their national counterparts, and report the problems encountered in the process of implementing Document No.83 [2013] of the State Council to the state departments in a timely manner to support and solve them, so as to ensure an accurate understanding of the connotations of various policies and make full use of them. It is necessary to strengthen business guidance to relevant departments around the country, timely collect the difficulties encountered in the process of implementing policies in the front line of business, and actively coordinate and solve them.
(43) Strengthen supervision and inspection.All localities and relevant units should improve the work supervision mechanism to promote the steady growth of imports and exports and adjust the structure, and regularly carry out relevant supervision work and evaluation summary. The Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation should give full play to the role of overall planning and coordination, strengthen work supervision and inspection, sum up and popularize advanced experience in various places in a timely manner, and strengthen special supervision over cities with slow progress in completing import and export tasks. All localities should submit their work every six months to the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, which will make a summary report to the provincial government.