The Latest July Foreign Trade New Regulations Summary, Textile Foreign Trade Enterprises Look!

According to the Announcement No. 75 of the General Administration of Customs in 2020, it is decided to carry out the pilot project of cross-border e-commerce enterprise to enterprise export (B2B export of cross-border e-commerce) in 10 customs offices of Beijing, Tianjin and Nanjing from July 1. It is necessary for foreign trade enterprises in cotton textile industry to understand these new regulations.

domestic

▌ pilot project of cross border e-commerce B2B export supervision launched

According to the Announcement No. 75 of the General Administration of Customs in 2020, it is decided to carry out the pilot project of cross-border e-commerce enterprise to enterprise export (B2B export of cross-border e-commerce) in 10 customs offices of Beijing, Tianjin, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Xiamen, Zhengzhou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Huangpu from July 1. The code "9710" (direct export of cross-border e-commerce B2B) and "9810" (cross-border e-commerce export overseas warehouse) are added to guide enterprises to change from the customs clearance of ordinary goods to the customs clearance under the B2B export management mode of cross-border e-commerce, so as to facilitate the customs to collect and count the export data of cross-border e-commerce directly according to the mode of photo supervision, so as to effectively solve the statistical problem of cross-border e-commerce export.

▌ implementation of revised origin standards under CEPA of Hong Kong and Macao

According to the Notice No. 76 of the General Administration of customs, in order to promote the economic and trade exchanges between the mainland and Hong Kong and Macao, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the goods trade agreement on the arrangement between the mainland and Macao on the establishment of closer economic and trade relations and the goods trade agreement on the arrangement between the mainland and Hong Kong on the establishment of closer economic and trade relations between the mainland and Hong Kong, the Notice No. 213 of the General Administration of customs and No. 214 of the General Administration of Customs in 2018 are attached The origin standards of some of the goods in the package were revised. It will be implemented from July 1, 2020.

▌ the negative list of foreign investment access in 2020 will be implemented

The Ministry of foreign investment and the Ministry of foreign investment have issued a list of negative access measures for foreign investment (FTZs) (the list of negative access measures for foreign investment in special free trade zones before 2020) and the list of negative access measures for foreign investment (FTZs) will be issued by the Ministry of foreign investment (sftz) from July 2020 To 30. The main changes are as follows: first, speed up the process of opening up key areas of service industry; second, relax the access to manufacturing and agriculture; third, continue to carry out pilot opening in the pilot free trade zone.

▌ China EU joint IPR mediation rules come into force

After more than two years of communication and exchange, the Shanghai Economic and trade mediation center and the Appeal Committee of the European Intellectual Property Office jointly worked out the joint mediation rules for intellectual property rights focusing on trademarks and designs between China and the EU, which came into effect on July 1, and will play a positive role in the settlement of cross-border intellectual property disputes. The European Intellectual Property Office appeal board is an independent decision-making body within the European Intellectual Property Office, which is responsible for hearing and adjudicating EU trademark and design disputes from global commercial entities. Shanghai economic, trade and commercial mediation center is the first neutral professional mediation organization in China. In 2018, it was selected to be the "one-stop" international commercial multi dispute resolution mechanism of the Supreme People's court and the only social organization on the platform.

▌ the tax-free shopping quota of Hainan Island was raised to 100000 yuan

On June 29, the Ministry of finance, the General Administration of customs and the State Administration of Taxation jointly issued the announcement on the tax-free shopping policy for Hainan Island passengers, which came into effect on July 1. It is clear in the announcement that the categories of duty-free goods should be expanded and 7 types of consumer goods such as electronic consumer products should be added; the amount of duty-free shopping per person in Hainan Island Islands should be increased from 30000 yuan to 100000 yuan, unlimited times; the part of goods purchased by passengers exceeding the duty-free limit and limit will be subject to import tax in accordance with the regulations.

▌ zero tariff treatment for 97% tariff items in Bangladesh

On June 18, the Tariff Commission of the State Council issued an announcement, in accordance with China's promise to grant zero tariff treatment to 97% of the tariff items of the least developed countries which have established diplomatic relations with China, and according to the exchange of letters between China and the people's Republic of Bangladesh, the preferential tax rate of zero will be applied to 97% of tariff products originated in the people's Republic of Bangladesh from July 1.

▌ MFN rates apply to imports originating in the Republic of Kiribati

According to the Announcement No. 77 of the General Administration of customs, with the approval of the State Council, the Republic of Kiribati will be granted MFN treatment in terms of import and export duties from July 1, and MFN tariff rate will be applied to imported goods originating in the Republic of Kiribati.

▌ the catalogue of major agricultural products subject to import report management has been adjusted

According to Announcement No. 23 of the Ministry of Commerce in 2020, the catalogue of bulk agricultural products subject to import report management (hereinafter referred to as the catalogue) is adjusted. Sugar beyond tariff quota will be included in the catalogue, and import report management will be implemented from July 1, 2020. Since July 1, the administration of olive oil import report will be cancelled.

international

▌ EU opens its borders to 15 countries including China

After several days of discussion, the European Council decided on June 30 local time that the external borders should be opened to 15 countries first from July 1, excluding the United States. The list of specific countries is as follows: China, Algeria, Australia, Canada, Georgia, Japan, Montenegro, Morocco, New Zealand, Rwanda, Serbia, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia and Uruguay.

▌ the free trade agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada came into force

After several years of "wheel type" negotiations and internal coordination positions among the three countries, the US Mexico Canada agreement (usmca) officially entered into force on July 1. Compared with NAFTA, the United States Mexico Canada agreement, known as version 2.0 of the agreement, is first targeted at automobile manufacturing and agricultural and animal husbandry products. Compared with NAFTA, the US Mexico Canada agreement is more exclusive to non market economy countries.

▌ Vietnam implements rules of origin of goods under evfta agreement

After Vietnam's parliament approved the Vietnam EU free trade agreement (evfta), Minister of industry and trade of Vietnam, Chen Junying, recently issued the Notice No. 11 / 2020 / tt-bct on the rules of origin of goods in the evfta agreement. After the entry into force and implementation of the evfta agreement, Vietnamese goods exported to the EU will be awarded the certificate of origin (C / O) in the form of EUR. 1, and enjoy preferential tariff in accordance with the evfta agreement.

▌ Germany reduces VAT rate

According to Germany's economic stimulus plan, the VAT rate will be reduced from July: the commodity tax rate originally applicable to 19% VAT will be reduced to 16%, and the commodity tax rate originally applicable to 7% VAT will be reduced to 5%. The implementation period is from July 1 to December 31.

1449 Saudi Arabian imports

On June 21, the Saudi Customs Department announced that the import tariff of some products would be increased from June 20, ranging from 0.5% to 15%. A total of 1449 products were affected, including chemicals and rubber and plastic products, leather, paper and rubber products, textile and footwear products, metal, steel and iron products. Since July 1, Saudi Arabia's value-added tax has risen from 5% to 15%, and has directly imposed value-added tax on e-commerce.