Cross Border Electricity Supplier 500 Million Package Challenges Traditional Regulation

With the further development of electronic information technology and economic globalization, the status and role of e-commerce in international trade is increasingly prominent. The General Administration of Customs announced that last year the number of packages exported to 500 million parcels was several times higher than that of the normal 1-2 billion package. The industry believes that cross-border e-commerce as a new form of business will become one of the main channels of international trade. China's enterprises should participate as soon as possible in order to seize more international market share. But at present, the development of cross border e-commerce is fragmented, networked and instant. It is separated from the existing regulatory system, and faces many challenges such as settlement, customs clearance, taxation and so on. It needs all kinds of legal system and standard "convoy" to occupy the commanding heights of this future competition.

E-commerce into SMEs across the border "gold rush" new platform

The West Wing Micro park has attracted many cross-border electric business enterprises such as white horse, Hai Tao and many other cross-border electric business enterprises, and stationed in cross-border e-commerce platform. Bhai Mars De, general manager of the International Trade Co., Ltd., Huang Side, introduces that consumers usually receive half a month or even a month to receive goods through overseas purchasing. They often lose their packages. With the help of cross-border e-commerce platform, consumers can only receive 2-3 days from the order to receive goods, and the price is also very advantageous. For example, a razor with a domestic price of 1800 yuan, the foreign market price of about 1000 yuan, through cross-border e-commerce platform purchase, the price is only about 1200 yuan.

Like the white International Trade Co., Ltd., more and more small and medium sized foreign trade enterprises and entrepreneurs turn their attention to the import and export business of cross-border e-commerce. The "whole wheat net" was founded by 3 college students. The website, which is not very popular, sold clothing, bags and other products in more than 200 countries in 14 languages in 4 years, and its sales volume has now exceeded one hundred million dollars.

Statistics show that in recent years, China's import and export growth has slowed down, but in the same period China cross-border e-commerce Strong development, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Commerce, in 2013, cross-border electricity supplier transactions reached 3 trillion and 100 billion yuan, accounting for 12.1% of the total import and export volume, representing a 7.5 percentage point increase over 2008. The small package of cross-border electricity suppliers is usually exported through postal routes. The General Administration of Customs announced that last year the number of export packages was 500 million parcels, several times higher than the normal 1-2 billion package.

In the fast-growing cross-border electricity supplier industry, except for its own R & D business platform, more and more small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises have passed eBay, Alibaba Amazon, cable network and other large business platform, try online export. According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 5000 kinds of platform enterprises in China, and more than 20 foreign trade enterprises have carried out cross-border e-commerce through the platform.

In 2013, pan Dian information technology company achieved sales of 250 million yuan in cross-border e-commerce, ranking the first in sales of eBay jewelry products in the world, and achieved 110 million yuan in sales in 1-5 months, an increase of 70%. "If we have been doing traditional foreign trade, we can not get rid of the most difficult predicament. Cross border e-commerce is the best choice. Our profits can reach 4 to 5 times of traditional foreign trade." Pat duo information technology company responsible person said.

Many experts believe that, compared with traditional foreign trade, cross-border e-commerce advantages are very obvious. Cross border e-commerce not only has the traditional advantages of electronic commerce, such as reducing the intermediate links, resolving overcapacity, and providing the way of development for SMEs, but also has the role of reshaping the international industrial chain, promoting the transformation of foreign trade development mode, and enhancing international competitiveness. It should innovate supervision mode, increase support and occupy the commanding heights of future foreign trade.

Hidden dangers behind the rise of "dark horse"

Reporters learned that, despite the explosive development of cross-border e-commerce in recent years, the "barbaric growth" has also exposed the relevant policies are not perfect, foreign exchange settlement, customs clearance, taxation and other supporting regulatory and service measures are not high risk, but also contains consumer rights protection and counter-terrorism stability and other risks.

The head of a large cross border electricity supplier in the eastern region told reporters that he operated commodities, and the general price was around tens of dollars. Most of the parcels were directly or indirectly through the logistics company. The postal route was imported to the other country and mixed with commercial parcels into the civil package. This is a common practice in the real world. It also avoids customs declaration and tax payment. Because the volume of the single business is small, it will not cause the attention of the regulatory authorities. However, once the volume of business is large, it is easy for customs and tax departments to be vigilant. Once verified, they will face huge fines or even criminal responsibilities.

"I have been running cross-border electric business for three years. My business is getting bigger and bigger, but I can't sleep at night. Our company has been listed as the focus of the national tax, and it is not only a question of fines if we are afraid to check it one day. " The head of the enterprise said.

In addition, postal, settlement and other supporting measures lags far behind the development of cross-border electricity providers, affecting the effectiveness of trade policy. It is understood that the number of small packages of cross-border electricity providers has increased significantly, and frequent break ups occur on holidays. At the same time, because of the influx of large numbers of packages, the entry rate of the other countries is getting worse and worse. What's more, these parcels are extremely harmful to the regime of the other country, especially the tax system and the retail system. It shows that many countries have begun to formulate some policies for postal routes, so as to counter the massive entry of Chinese parcels. For example, emerging countries such as China, Russia and other countries have responded quickly and have begun tightening the management policy of parcel post entry.

Reporters interviewed learned that in addition to postal delivery, the way of settlement is also away from supervision, many times using the "quack way". Lin Wenchao, general manager of a foreign trade company, said that the cross-border electricity suppliers are not regular in the settlement of foreign exchange. Most of them can only solve the problem of foreign exchange to RMB by means of logistics companies, banks and individuals.

At the same time, there is also a risk that consumers' rights and interests can not be protected and there is a potential safety hazard. A customs expert said that because of the large number of importing electricity providers outside the country, not subject to domestic laws and regulations, consumers' rights and interests were infringed, and domestic laws were hard to implement effective protection. Because of the particularity of cross-border e-commerce transactions, the diversity of the main body, the asymmetry of information, drugs, prohibited printed matter, and even nuclear chemical and biological products, which pose a great hidden danger to social security, are easy to be imported through the way of partition and hiding, and evade supervision. The effective implementation of effective combat by the customs and other supervision departments is more difficult, which poses a new challenge to the stability of terrorism.

Advantageous formats need government services and supervision to keep up with them.

According to the analysis of relevant experts, although cross-border e-commerce has achieved breakthroughs, cross-border e-commerce, characterized by fragmentation and immediacy, is challenging traditional regulation and also has multiple risks. We should make clear the cross border electricity supplier positioning, set up a regulatory and supporting system to adapt to the development of cross-border electricity providers, and promote the development of cross-border e-commerce standards.

A senior customs expert said that defining the trade attributes of cross-border e-commerce is the basis for solving problems. After clearing the trade location of cross-border e-commerce, we should earnestly study and formulate regulatory policies that are compatible with the development of cross-border e-commerce, develop a unified cross-border e-commerce platform, and achieve customs and e-commerce, third party payment, logistics providers docking, and cross border e-commerce in the scope of customs supervision.

"With the supervision of cross-border e-commerce development, services should also be followed. To achieve cross-border e-commerce, we should pay foreign exchange by regular channels, and promote the development of e-commerce enterprises to regularization and scale. At the same time, what tariff policies should be applied to the import of commodities for cross-border e-commerce, and how to levy and establish a clear collection and management system? " He said.

Researchers at Dalong Research Institute, Dalong Network China Limited, said that because of the fragmentation characteristics of cross-border e-commerce, some small packages will also exist for a long time. Therefore, this part of the formalization of sunshine procedures must be very simple and fast, according to general export customs declaration, commodity inspection procedures are unlikely to be achieved, this small package area only needs fast and efficient customs declaration statistics. Small foreign trade and small orders need sunshine. Most of them are concerned about the main points of their interest: tax rebate, efficiency of customs clearance, international collection cost, small order supply chain financial services.

Reporters learned that, in the process of cross-border e-commerce development, export commodities logistics Bottlenecks are becoming increasingly apparent, resulting in high cost of logistics for small pieces of goods and long transshipment of Customs packages. Insiders suggested that this would force cross-border electricity providers to build positions overseas. The wide use of "overseas warehouse" will change the logistics ecology of cross-border e-commerce retail export industry, achieve local shipments, speed up the delivery of goods, increase the click rate of consumers to the shops, and speed up the sale of goods.