Reduce costs, smooth channels, and improve services
In 2023, cross-border e-commerce exports in many places will hit a new high.
Reporter Liu Cheng, Yu Jindong, and Li Zhiguo.
As the world's leading new force, cross-border e-commerce has enabled more people to "buy the world and sell the world". According to preliminary statistics, China's cross-border e-commerce import and export will be 238 trillion yuan, an increase of 156%。At present, cross-border e-commerce has become an important driving force for the growth of foreign trade, and all localities continue to deepen the comprehensive reform of cross-border e-commerce, innovate measures, break through blockages, and promote the accelerated development of cross-border e-commerce business.
Exports are growing rapidly.
The hot market situation of cross-border e-commerce has attracted well-known domestic e-commerce platforms to carry out cross-border e-commerce business. Shanghai Airport has become an important channel for cross-border e-commerce to promote domestic goods to the sea. With the low-price strategy, emerging e-commerce platforms such as Shein, Pinduoduo, and TikTok have risen rapidly, occupying a large share of the foreign e-commerce market. The reporter recently learned from Shanghai Pudong Airport Customs that the export declaration volume of the above three e-commerce platforms in 2023 will increase by more than 10 times year-on-year, and the declared export volume has accounted for more than 30% of the total export declaration of cross-border e-commerce at the port, ushering in explosive growth. In 2023, the number of cross-border e-commerce declarations for Shanghai airport and port exports will reach 4400 million votes, a year-on-year increase of nearly 2 times, a record high; The total export value exceeded 85 billion yuan.
This is our 310th export since last year, and the sales trend is improving. A few days ago, a batch of HDPE pipes produced in Linyi, Shandong Province were sent to the Middle East on time through Qingdao Yirui International E-commerce, the company's business director Chen Weize said, "We have now carried out first-chain cooperation with enterprises in Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other node cities in the Yellow River Basin, and actively promoted industrial products to go to sea." ”
As the main passage to the sea in the Yellow River Basin, in recent years, Qingdao has actively integrated into and actively served the major national strategies of ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, vigorously promoted the development of cross-border e-commerce formats, and took the lead in establishing the "9+2" cross-border e-commerce industry cooperation and exchange mechanism and the cross-border e-commerce alliance of the Yellow River Basin covering the nine provinces and regions along the Yellow River, Xinjiang and Yunnan, so as to create the most efficient "gateway window" for the integration of the provinces and cities along the Yellow River into the domestic and international dual circulation. In 2023, Qingdao Customs will supervise a total of 1 cross-border e-commerce export list100 million orders, a year-on-year increase of about 80%.
On January 12, the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce issued Document No. 1 in 2024, announcing a new round of well-known brands exported by Zhejiang cross-border e-commerce, and 16 brands in Ningbo were on the list. Up to now, Ningbo has cultivated a total of 53 well-known provincial cross-border e-commerce export brands, accounting for 20% of the total in Zhejiang Province. In 2023, Ningbo will achieve cross-border exports in 2013200 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 154%。
New channels are constantly being opened.
A few days ago, the fifth air right cargo flight loaded with cross-border e-commerce goods such as clothing and daily necessities took off from Ningbo Airport under the supervision of Ningbo Customs and arrived in New York after a 16-hour flight. "Now is the peak period for buyers to stock up, and it is expected that the stock volume will increase to more than 120,000 tickets per day before the Spring Festival, an increase of 30%. Zhou Tangyin, assistant general manager of Zhejiang Sinotrans, who is responsible for transportation, is full of confidence.
Previously, Ningbo did not have direct flights to New York, and Ningbo enterprises could only detour to Shanghai and other places if they wanted to transport goods to New York by air. Now, with the landing of the fifth air right, these high-value, time-sensitive cross-border e-commerce packages can fly directly from Ningbo to overseas consumers. At present, Ningbo Airport has opened four fifth air right routes from Ningbo to Liege, Ningbo to Chicago, Ningbo to Los Angeles and Ningbo to New York, all of which are cross-border e-commerce air export lines.
On January 22, in the express supervision center located in the bonded logistics center of Qingdao West Coast New Area, the staff was skillfully packing a batch of clothing from Xi'an and preparing to send it to Japan by sea.
It is estimated that all our goods will be delivered to Japanese consumers within 5 days, which is 2 to 3 days shorter than before. Sui Weijing, deputy director of the capacity of Qingdao West Coast New Area Bonded Logistics Center, introduced, "Relying on the 'cross-border sea' Japanese shipping main channel opened not long ago, we have improved the cross-border efficiency of Japan again." ”
At present, Qingdao West Coast New Area Bonded Logistics Center has set up a full-link, one-stop cross-border e-commerce shipping and export integrated service system covering "domestic efficient transportation - export cross-border e-commerce fast customs clearance - international shipping - Japanese domestic customs clearance and delivery".
Regulatory reform helps go global.
In the face of the rapid development of cross-border e-commerce exports, Pudong Airport Customs has continuously promoted the reform of export cross-border e-commerce supervision business. "We have launched the electronic release of exports, and cross-border e-commerce logistics enterprises can declare a ticket of e-commerce goods, and they can receive the customs release information within 5 minutes after the data is successfully matched. Song Ge, deputy director of Pudong Airport Customs Express, said. With the rapid growth of export business volume, some logistics companies have encountered bottlenecks in terms of shipping space costs, operation time, route selection, etc., and need to open charter flights to solve them. Pudong Airport Customs customizes supervision plans for logistics enterprises, coordinates and guides in advance, and ensures zero service delay and zero waiting for customs clearance.
Ningbo has focused on cultivating a cross-border e-commerce "one station, two warehouses" public service platform system. That is, in addition to overseas warehouses, we also develop export pre-warehouses and encourage enterprises to set up independent stations. Last year, Ningbo pioneered a new model of cross-border e-commerce export pre-warehouse supervision in the country. As one of the first batch of enterprises to test the waters, Ningbo Aosen Independent Station has more than 4 million users since its establishment in 2014. Xiao Yinglan, manager of the independent station, said, "The characteristic of the independent station is to be as close as possible to local needs and consumption habits, so that the products can win the goodwill of consumers, and the overseas popularity of the brand is getting higher and higher."
In order to help enterprises better explore overseas markets and increase the intensity of "products going overseas", Qingdao Customs further supports eligible enterprises to carry out cross-border e-commerce export overseas warehouse business on the basis of cross-border business supervision, and helps e-commerce enterprises expand overseas markets by relying on overseas warehouses. Fang Dalin, Chief of the Special Regional Business Section of the Enterprise Management Office of Huangdao Customs, said: "Exporting through the e-commerce overseas warehouse model has lower logistics costs and higher delivery timeliness, which will help enterprises enhance their competitiveness." ”
In order to meet the needs of e-commerce enterprises for export returns, Qingdao Customs, as the first batch of 10 cross-border e-commerce retail export goods cross-customs return business pilots, actively explores an efficient and smooth return process. Subsequently, domestic cross-border retail e-commerce goods exported from other ports can choose to be returned from Qingdao Customs Port, which greatly shortens the logistics and transportation time. (Economic**).