The Threshold Of Duty-Free Shops Must Be Lowered Before Consumers Can Be Caught.

In 2015, Chinese tourists spent about 1 trillion and 200 billion yuan abroad, equivalent to about 4% of the total retail sales of consumer goods in China.

According to the statistics of the National Tourism Administration, the number of outbound travellers in China reached 120 million people (including Hong Kong and Macao) in 2015, and tourism consumption was 104 billion 500 million dollars, up 12% and 16.7% respectively over the same period last year.

According to other statistics, the per capita consumption of Chinese tourists ranked first in the world in 2014, 3 to 5 times the world average.

According to the Customs Law, the duty free shops should comply with the customs supervision requirements.

Approval and registration procedures.

Anyway, duty-free shops are still attractive to consumers.

It is understood that at present, domestic duty free shops include port entry duty free shops and offshore duty-free policy duty free shops in Hainan Island.

The entry duty free shops at the port are the isolated areas at the airport, land and waterway ports which are open to the outside world, mainly for the sale of high-grade cosmetics and luxury goods. The service targets are ordinary citizens returned from abroad. Tax-free taxes include customs duties, import value-added tax and consumption tax. The total amount of tax-free shopping abroad is not more than 8000 yuan.

Tax exemption in Islands refers to the restricted import tax free shopping for passengers flying Islands (excluding departure). The passengers should be paid in the duty-free shops with the offshore duty-free policy system, and a preferential tax policy is to pick up Islands in the airport isolation area.

At present, the State Council has set up a duty free shop in Haikou and Sanya respectively in Islands.

The limit is 8000 yuan.

The reporter understands that the threshold for opening duty-free shops can be described as "quite high". According to the Customs Law, the duty free shops should comply with the customs supervision requirements and go through the registration procedures after customs approval.

In 2016, the national government's work report on the two sessions pointed out that we should reduce the import tariffs on some consumer products and set up duty-free shops, hoping to provide more choices for domestic consumers and keep as much consumption as possible in China.

It is understood that since 2015, the state has promulgated a series of promotions.

The policy of reflux.

But according to the Ministry of commerce data, in 2015, Chinese tourists spent about 1 trillion and 200 billion yuan overseas, equivalent to about 4% of the total retail sales of social consumer goods in China.

In fact, most port duty-free shops are concentrated in the exit link, and there are few duty-free shops, mainly distributed in Beijing and Shanghai, and have few varieties.

To this end, in February this year, the Ministry of finance, the Ministry of Commerce, the General Administration of customs, the State Administration of Taxation and the National Tourism Administration issued a notice, and decided to set up and restore duty free shops at the port level from February 18, 2016 onwards, reasonably expand the tax-free varieties and increase a certain amount of duty-free shopping.

The State Council has agreed to set up a duty free shop at 19 ports in Guangzhou Baiyun, Hangzhou Xiaoshan, Chengdu Shuangliu, Qingdao Liuting and Heihe ports.

Zhao Ping, a researcher at the China Council for the promotion of trade (CCPIT), has said that after the implementation of the policy, there will be a significant effect in attracting consumption reflux.

She believes that the number of imported duty-free shops is also necessary to constantly sum up experience after the current exploration stage, further expand the total volume, and also need to determine the final size of duty-free shops based on the basic situation and purchasing power of the entry and exit ports at the local ports.

Since February 1st of this year, the third adjustment of offshore duty-free policy in Hainan has cancelled the restriction on shopping times.

At the same time, in the existing two entity duty-free shops, Sanya Haitang Bay duty free shop and the Haikou Meilan Airport duty-free shop set up an online sales window, Islands passengers can duty-free shopping through the online sales window, pick up goods at the airport quarantine area and carry Islands with identity cards and boarding passes.

The customs supervision of duty-free shops and duty-free goods is clear. The establishment of duty-free shops should be submitted to the General Administration of Customs for a written application and an independent legal person qualification; a duty free sales place and a tax free goods supervision warehouse that meets the requirements of customs supervision; a computerized management system that meets the requirements of customs supervision can provide the customs with the information of warehousing, sales and so on; with a certain scale of operation, where the application for establishing port duty free shops, the port duty-free shops at the ports where the duty-free shops are located should have no fewer than 50 thousand persons.

Generally speaking, the entry duty free shops at ports are determined by the airport or other tenderers through the tender.

If there are no special conditions for bidding, such as the small volume of entry and exit, the limited opening area, etc., an application can be submitted and submitted to the Ministry of Finance for approval, and the main body of operation shall be determined in accordance with the competitive negotiations stipulated in the government procurement law of the People's Republic of China.

It is easy to see that there are strict restrictions on the introduction of duty-free shops to the locations and locations. Therefore, the enterprises in the domestic tax exempt industry are mainly composed of "national teams", with few social capital entering.