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

According to the Notice No. 75 of the General Administration of Customs of Tianjin (No. 75) on cross-border e-commerce enterprises, the General Administration of Customs of Tianjin has decided to carry out the pilot export of e-commerce enterprises in Tianjin from July 1, 2020. 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.

CEPA revised standards of origin for 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, according to the relevant provisions of the agreement on goods trade between the mainland and Macao on Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement and the agreement on goods trade between the mainland and Hong Kong on closer economic partnership arrangement, the Announcement No. 213 of the General Administration of Customs in 2018 and the Notice No. 214 of the General Administration of Customs in 2018 are amended The standard of origin of some commodities in Annex No. It will be implemented from July 1, 2020.

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

The national development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce recently issued the Special Administrative Measures for foreign investment access (negative list) (2020 Edition) and the Special Administrative Measures for foreign investment access in pilot free trade zones (2020 Edition), which will come into effect on July 23, 2020. Among them, the negative list of foreign investment access in China is reduced from 40 to 33, and the negative list of foreign investment access in pilot free trade zones is negative From 37 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.

EU China joint IPR mediation rules

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. The rules came into effect on July 1, which will play a positive role in resolving 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. In addition, the number of duty-free goods purchased by consumers in Hainan will be increased from RMB 30000 to RMB 100000 per person.

▌ 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 commitment to grant zero tariff treatment to 97% of the tariff products 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 originating in the people's Republic of Bangladesh from July 1.

▌ Republic of Kiribati's most favored import rate

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.

▌ Saudi Arabia increases import tariffs on 1449 products

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 and steel 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.