General Administration Of Customs: RCEP "Small Certificate" Helps Textile And Garment Development

Photo: Zhang Meng / photo by Buji customs officer, affiliated to Shenzhen customs, guiding enterprises to apply RCEP policy

Cutting, sewing, packing... Guoqiao (Shenzhen) Industrial Co., Ltd. workshop a busy scene. Guoqiao Industrial Co., Ltd. is a non-woven fabric and products manufacturing enterprise. The main products are isolation clothes and waiting bags. "After the implementation of RCEP, our factory has increased a lot of orders from Japan. As of the end of July, the export to Japan has increased by 21% over the same period last year. With the advantages of low tariff and market demand, the company is very confident in the future overseas market." Guoqiao industrial customs broker Ms. Yan said.

According to the statistics of the customs, the value of the textile enterprises in Shenzhen was 9.97-2.4 million yuan.

Since the beginning of this year, Shenzhen Customs has focused on key industries to optimize the origin management services and make every effort to promote the implementation of RCEP policy. "For the clothes exported to Japan this year, we have achieved a breakthrough of zero by using RCEP certificate of origin." Ms. Jiang of Shenzhen Huasi Enterprise Co., Ltd. According to the RECP agreement, the tax rate of the company's products exported to Japan has been reduced from 16% to 8.2%, which has greatly helped to increase the pricing power of products and enhance the market competitiveness.

According to the relevant person in charge of the customs and tariff Office of Shenzhen customs, China's textile and garment industry is currently in a critical period of transformation and upgrading. The rise of human costs has led to the relocation of processing and production links. If enterprises can make full use of the preferential policies of RCEP reasonably, it will reduce the tariff cost of the textile and garment industry and stimulate the development potential of the textile and garment industry, It is of positive significance to optimize the layout of low-end production and upstream Design in the region.

Therefore, Shenzhen Customs has carried out extensive publicity on RCEP tariff reduction and rules of origin for textile and garment enterprises under its jurisdiction by means of "Online + offline", on-site service window guidance and code scanning query and answer; According to the actual needs of enterprises, the customs printed a tax reduction list for the textile and clothing industry in Japan, which was sent to Japanese export enterprises in a targeted way to help them understand RCEP policies and enjoy dividends.

Shenzhen Customs vigorously promotes the intelligent examination and self-service printing of RCEP certificate of origin to further improve the audit efficiency. Shenzhen RCEP service center will be jointly established with Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Commerce, CCPIT, Shenzhen Judicial Bureau and Shenzhen International Arbitration Court, so as to better serve textile and garment enterprises relying on Service Center entities. (GaN Mengzhu, Zhao Nan, he Jiansheng / article)

(source: General Administration of Customs)