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EU extends the policy of "suspending import tariff and value added tax on medical materials"

At the request of Member States and the United Kingdom, the European Commission has decided to suspend the collection of tariffs and value-added taxes on medical supplies imported from third countries, according to the European Commission website on April 3. Relevant tax-free materials include protective products such as masks, virus detection kits, ventilators, and other medical equipment. The tax exemption period is from January 31, 2020 and is valid for six months.

On July 27, the European Union amended its decision to suspend the collection of tariff and value-added tax on imported medical materials, extending the applicable period for three months to October 31.

US Antidumping on various products

In May 2020, both members of the Committee on anti-dumping and anti-dumping (ITC) voted in favor of China's anti-dumping and anti-dumping measures against China's metal storage industry since May. It was found that the products involved in the case that the alleged government subsidies and dumping had caused substantial damage to the domestic industry of the United States. Based on the affirmative ruling of the United States International Trade Commission on China's products involved in the case, the U.S. Department of Commerce will continue to conduct anti-dumping and countervailing investigations on the products involved in the case. It is expected that a preliminary anti-dumping determination will be made before October 2, 2020, and an anti-dumping preliminary determination will be made before December 16, 2020. The case involves products under the harmonized tariff codes 9403.20.0078, 9403.20.0080 (the first two are tariff numbers of products imported before July 2019) and 9403.90.8041.

On August 21, 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced a preliminary anti-dumping ruling on imports of difluoromethane (R-32) from China, and preliminarily ruled that the dumping rate of Taizhou Qingsong refrigeration new material Co., Ltd. was 161.49%, and Zibo feiyuan Chemical Co., Ltd, Ltd., 196.19% and 221.06% respectively. The U.S. Department of commerce is expected to make a final anti-dumping ruling on November 3, 2020. This case concerns products under the United States harmonized tariff No. 2903.39.2035.

In response to the preliminary ruling of the Ministry of Commerce of China on August 13, 2020, Chow and Power Co. Ltd. filed a preliminary ruling against China's engine and Machinery Co., Ltd. against its imports of engine parts, The dumping rate of Ltd. was 401.14%, the adjusted dumping rate was 380.46%, the dumping rate of Longxin Motor Co., Ltd. was 219.07%, the adjusted dumping rate was 206.82%, the dumping rate of enterprises with separate tax rate was 326.17%, the adjusted dumping rate was 308.64%, the dumping rate of other Chinese manufacturers / exporters was 543.18%, and the adjusted dumping rate was 525.65%. The U.S. Department of commerce is expected to make a final anti-dumping ruling on January 4, 2021. This case involves products under HTSUS 8407.90.1020, 8407.90.1060 and 8407.90.1080.

On August 7, 2020, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) voted to make an affirmative preliminary determination on anti-dumping and countervailing industrial injury of twist ties imported from China. In this ruling, all five members of the committee voted in favor. It was found that the products involved in the case that the alleged government subsidies and dumping had caused substantial damage to the domestic industry of the United States. Based on the affirmative ruling of the United States International Trade Commission on China's products involved in the case, the U.S. Department of Commerce will continue to conduct anti-dumping and countervailing investigations on the products involved in the case. It is expected that the preliminary anti-dumping determination will be made before September 21, 2020, and the preliminary anti-dumping determination will be made before December 3, 2020. This case involves products under harmonized tariff numbers 8309.90.0000 and 5609.00.3000.

On August 6, 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced a preliminary anti-dumping determination on wood moldings and millwork products imported from Brazil and a positive preliminary determination on wood moldings and millwork products imported from China. According to the preliminary ruling, the dumping rate of Bel trade Wood Industrial Co., Ltd. was 146.91%, and the adjusted dumping rate was 136.18%. Fujian Yinfeng imp & exp Trading Co., Ltd. and mangrove wood machining Co, The dumping rate of Ltd. is 40.30%, the adjusted dumping rate is 29.57%, the dumping rate of enterprises receiving separate tax rate is 79.40%, the adjusted dumping rate is 68.67%, the dumping rate of other Chinese producers / exporters is 359.16%, and the adjusted dumping rate is 348.43%. The U.S. Department of commerce is expected to make a final anti-dumping ruling on December 18, 2020. This case involves products under the Harmonized Tariff No. 4409.10.4010, 4409.10.4090, 4409.10.4500, 4409.10.5000, 4409.22.4000, 4409.22.5000, 4409.29.4000, 4409.29.4100, 4409.29.5000 and 4409.29.5100.

The United States requires Hong Kong origin goods to be marked as "China"

However, the "Hong Kong origin" notice should not be issued since September 25. According to the announcement of the federal government of the United States, the United States will give manufacturers a 45 day buffer period from the date of notification, which means that the policy will be formally implemented from September 25, 2020.

It is worth noting that in the US 301 survey of trade remedy FAQs, it is currently described as "imports originating in Hong Kong or Macao are not subject to 301 additional tariff". According to the new regulations of September 25, if the origin of goods produced in Hong Kong is marked as "China", it may face the same 301 additional tariff.

Address of original announcement:

　　https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/08/11/2020-17599/country-of-origin-marking-of-products-of-hong-kong

Colombia exempts small cross-border goods from tariffs

On August 3, Colombian President Duke signed Decree No. 1090 of 2020 to exempt cross-border postal and express goods with a value of less than $200.

Specific content of the decree: Article 261 of Decree No. 1165 of 2019 (measures for customs work) is revised as follows: commodities with FOB price (excluding freight) less than US $200 (including freight) entering the customs territory of Costa Rica in the form of postal transportation and express delivery can be exempted from customs duties under customs codes 9807.1 million and 9807.2 million. The decree shall come into force 15 days after its publication in the official gazette.

Vietnam plans to exempt plastic products from antidumping duty

Vietnam's trade defense Bureau of the Ministry of industry and trade of Vietnam has advised relevant enterprises to prepare an application for exemption from the official imposition of anti-dumping duties on some plastics and plastic products made of polypropylene from China, Thailand and Malaysia, and send them to the Ministry of trade and defense (TDB) before 17:00 on September 24.

Prior to that, the Minister of industry and Trade issued decision No. 1900 / qd-bct on the official imposition of anti-dumping duties on some plastics and plastic products made of polypropylene from China, Thailand and Malaysia on July 20, 2020. The code of anti-dumping goods is HS: 3920.20.10 and 3920.20.91.

Iran bans rice imports

Iran's Teheran Times reported recently that the Iranian Customs announced that in order to support domestic farmers' production, the rice import ban would be implemented from August 22. The plan, which should have been implemented on July 22, has been postponed for a month.

Bangladesh can apply for ex gratia certificate of origin online

On August 18, the General Administration of Customs announced that since September 10, the "special preferential tariff treatment certificate of origin issuance system" will be pilot operated, which will open the online issuing function of preferential certificate of origin to visa agencies of Bangladesh, Niger, Ethiopia, Mozambique and East Timor, and the initial number of the certificate issued online is "e".

If the consignees of imported goods or their agents (hereinafter referred to as importers) apply for preferential tariff rates with the certificate of origin with the letter "e" as the first number, they shall fill in the customs declaration form and submit the certificate of origin in accordance with the relevant requirements of the General Administration of Customs announcement No. 67 of 2017 on "imported goods under preferential trade agreement with electronic information exchange of origin realized".

If the importer applies for preferential tariff rate by virtue of the certificate of origin other than the above online issuance certificate, it shall still fill in the customs declaration form and submit the certificate of origin in accordance with the relevant requirements of the General Administration of Customs Announcement No. 67 of 2017 on "imported goods under preferential trade agreement for which electronic information exchange of origin has not yet been realized".

Stabilizing foreign trade policy

On August 12, the general office of the State Council issued the opinions on further stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment (hereinafter referred to as the opinions), focusing on the development of new trade formats, gradient transfer of processing trade, encouraging more foreign investment in high-tech industries, and providing financial support to foreign-funded enterprises.

In terms of stabilizing foreign trade, the opinions put forward a number of policies and measures, including: giving better play to the role of export credit insurance, supporting localities with conditions to copy or expand the financing mode of "credit insurance + guarantee", providing credit enhancement support for foreign trade enterprises in various ways, further expanding export credit for small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises, and supporting the development of new trade formats, We should guide the gradient transfer of processing trade, increase support for labor-intensive enterprises, help large-scale backbone foreign trade enterprises solve problems, expand online channels of foreign trade, and further improve the level of customs clearance facilitation.

It is worth noting that this opinion once again proposes to support the development of new trade formats, promote a batch of market procurement trade mode pilot projects in places where conditions permit as soon as possible, and strive to expand the total number of national pilot projects to about 30, so as to drive the export of small and medium-sized enterprises.

Re expansion of cross border e-commerce B2B export supervision pilot

On August 13, the General Administration of Customs announced that on the basis of pilot projects in various cities in the early stage, 12 customs directly under the jurisdiction of Shanghai Customs, Fuzhou Customs, Qingdao Customs, Jinan customs, Wuhan Customs, Changsha Customs, Gongbei Customs, Zhanjiang customs, Nanning customs, Chongqing customs, Chengdu Customs and Xi'an customs will be added to carry out B2B export supervision pilot projects of cross-border e-commerce.

On June 13, the General Administration of Customs announced that it had decided to carry out export supervision pilot projects of cross-border e-commerce enterprises to enterprises (B2B) in 10 local customs, including Beijing customs, Tianjin Customs, Nanjing Customs, Hangzhou Customs, Ningbo customs, Xiamen Customs, Zhengzhou customs, Guangzhou Customs, Shenzhen Customs and Huangpu customs.

The cross-border e-commerce B2B export can be divided into two types of business models. Enterprises can choose the corresponding mode to declare to the customs according to their own business types: after the domestic enterprises reach a transaction with the overseas enterprises through the cross-border e-commerce platform, the goods are directly exported to the overseas enterprises through cross-border logistics, referred to as "cross-border e-commerce B2B direct export", and the customs supervision code is "9710".

Export overseas warehouse means that domestic enterprises first export goods to overseas warehouses through cross-border logistics, and then trade through cross-border e-commerce platforms, and then deliver them to overseas buyers from overseas warehouses, which is referred to as "cross-border e-commerce export overseas warehouse", and the code of customs supervision mode is "9810".

Certificate of origin

In order to further optimize the business environment and promote the intellectualization, standardization and standardization of certificate of origin visa, on August 10, the General Administration of Customs officially launched the intelligent examination of certificate of origin in Hangzhou, Ningbo, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other customs.

The types of certificates include: China ASEAN, China Chile, China Pakistan, China New Zealand, China Singapore, China Peru, China Costa Rica, China Iceland, China Switzerland, China Australia, China Korea, China Georgia, and the framework agreement on cross strait economic cooperation There are 16 kinds of certificate of origin, certificate of origin of the Asia Pacific Trade Agreement, non preferential certificate of origin and GSP certificate of origin.

The pilot customs include Tianjin Customs, Shanghai Customs, Nanjing Customs under Suzhou and Changzhou customs, Hangzhou Customs under Jinhua, Wenzhou and Jiaxing customs, Ningbo Customs (except Haishu customs), Qingdao Customs under Huangdao customs, Guangzhou Customs under Tianhe customs, Shenzhen Customs and Chongqing customs.

After the implementation of the certificate of origin intelligent audit, the certificate audit time will be reduced from the original manual 4 hours to the system "second release", greatly optimizing the business environment and enhancing the enterprise sense of gain. Prior to this, the General Administration of Customs has implemented the self-service printing of 16 kinds of certificates of origin. In addition, the major reform effects of the intelligent examination of certificates of origin have been superimposed, and enterprises have truly realized the goal of "staying at home" and "waiting for immediate results".

6 kinds of export commodities inspected by customs

On August 21, the General Administration of Customs issued announcement No. 95 of 2020 (notice on carrying out spot check and inspection of import and export commodities other than statutory inspection commodities in 2020), and decided to carry out spot check inspection on some import and export commodities except for statutory inspection commodities in 2020. The scope of the random inspection covers 28 categories of import and export commodities, including 22 import commodities and 6 export commodities.

1. Import commodities: Children's wear, stationery, neckties, scarves, toilets, dishwashers, air purifiers, printers, electric water heaters, microcomputers, television sets, monitors, garbage food processors, electromagnetic cookers, motor vehicle horns, motor vehicle reflex reflectors, motor vehicle brake hose, car interior accessories, dyes, pigments, coloring materials, etc.

2. Export commodities: imitation accessories, children's bicycles, children's scooters, electric baby carriages, plush toys, electric faucets, etc.