The Direction Of Import Supervision Policy Needs To Be Systematized And Definite.

Since 2013, there have been 7 pilot cities for cross-border electricity suppliers approved by the General Administration of Customs: Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Zhengzhou, Hangzhou, Ningbo and Shenzhen (the latest approved).

The General Administration of Customs has issued a number of import and export policy documents for these pilot cities.

In March this year, the General Administration of Customs issued a set of instructions on the "bonded import" mode in the notice.

Under this mode, the importing electricity supplier can purchase bulk goods in advance by sea / air way, and deliver the goods to the bonded warehouses in the bonded area tax-free. After receiving the consumer orders, the goods will be shipped directly from the bonded warehouse after customs inspection.

Only a relatively low postal tax is payable on the warehouse.

The user experience in this mode will be closer to domestic online shopping.

Recently, the General Administration of Customs has issued "56" and "57" announcements continuously, making more detailed provisions on the actual operation of cross-border electricity supplier pilot business.

At present, each pilot area is inconsistent with the specific operation of the relevant policies.

It is worth noting that the Department of the General Administration of Customs has only issued a pilot new deal.

Other regulatory departments, including the AQSIQ, issued only the relevant draft.

In addition, the small import tax policy, which is directly related to the interests of the consumer, is not yet clear.

Insiders said that the current pilot policy is likely to have a major adjustment in the future.

Even Amazon, who has entered the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, has adopted a cautious attitude in launching the "bonded import" business.

The systematic trend of future departments' policies is an important uncertainty factor faced by the whole industry.

The biggest reason behind the policy uncertainty is the rampant spread of counterfeit goods from domestic exports to domestic exports.

Only when the whole industry is working closely with the regulatory authorities to make the scale of the sunshine market possible, can we solve the problem of parallel imports better.

The import retail electricity supplier industry is still in a relatively primitive barbaric growth stage.

All players get very dispersed traffic.

The maturity of the industry, the consumers' cognition and the improvement of supporting policies also need time accumulation.

And eBay's Taobao global purchase and eBay global market purchasing platform business is relatively early.

In the independent import retail business, except for the earlier layout of foreign ports, almost all other companies entered the market only after 2013.

This also confirms our judgement that the import retail business is still in infancy.

As many import and retail business platforms are large business operators, it is difficult for us to know the amount of funds they receive through public information.

From the case of publicly available financing data, the self financing B2C business model is heavier and the amount of financing is relatively large. The A round financing of the foreign direct port terminal is also approaching tens of millions of dollars; the financing situation of the shopping guide / rebate platform seems to be not optimistic; the overseas commodity flash buying platform, Amoy, has received a A round of financing of 5 million US dollars.

It is worth mentioning that apart from domestic players, many overseas retailers have also launched direct mail service in China.

Take Macy Messi s, a department store, for example. When IP from China visits the official website of the English website, there will be a Chinese dialog box popping up to prompt "now provide freight service to China" and can be settled in RMB.

Unlike traditional Chinese seafood shopping mode, Chinese consumers take the initiative to buy from overseas websites, and overseas retailers have become the active parties.

They are actively observing and exploring cross border retail mode that directly serves Chinese consumers.

Compared with the level of the domestic electricity supplier mode, the volume difference between the various levels of the import retail business mode is likely to be multiples.

Thus, the difference between the final business level of different modes may be great.

Of course, cross-border online shopping has its own development rules and industry rules, and the future distribution of the magnitude does not necessarily copy the format of domestic electricity suppliers.

In any case, in different modes, the capabilities and resources required from the back end of supply chain management, data mining from the middle end to user management of front-end can be quite different from those of resources.

When choosing specific models, entrepreneurs should have a clear idea of the future development space of the model and the resources that match it.