On the afternoon of August 21st, the press office of Linyi Municipal People's Government held a press conference. Relevant responsible comrades of the Municipal Business Development Service Center and Linyi Customs introduced the second RCEP Regional (Shandong) Import Commodities Fair.
Introduction to the Expo
On the afternoon of August 21st, the 2nd RCEP Regional (Shandong) Import Commodities Fair, supported by China-ASEAN Center, sponsored by Linyi Municipal People's Government, Shandong Provincial Department of Commerce and Foreign Affairs Office of Shandong Provincial People's Government, and hosted by Linyi Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Linyi Foreign Affairs Office and lanshan district Municipal People's Government, was successfully concluded.
The exhibition area of this Expo is 35,300 square meters, including 25,300 square meters of Linyi International Expo Center, equivalent to 1,232 international standard booths, and 10,000 square meters of Linyi Import Commodity City sub-venue, with a total of 43,000 visitors, including 21,000 professional buyers. The on-site transaction amount is 230 million yuan, and the intended transaction amount is 750 million yuan.
This Expo has three outstanding features.
The first is to highlight the region. Focus on RCEP countries, with the theme of "new era, new pattern, new platform, new opportunities", with 512 exhibitors as the main content, to show the economic and trade cultural exchanges between RCEP countries, cities, business associations and our province, and to exhibit famous brands and high-quality goods in RCEP; Established RCEP International Pavilion, RCEP Brand Pavilion and RCEP Quality Commodity Pavilion. Cambodia, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia and other five RCEP countries have set up national pavilions, and six overseas city pavilions, including Junpu in South Korea, Incheon in South Korea, Gunsan in South Korea, Chungcheongbuk-do in South Korea, Yamagata Prefecture in Japan and Osaka Prefecture in Japan. At the same time, there are 12 business associations such as Greenland Trade Port, Korea Chamber of Commerce for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Wenzhou Imported Food Chamber of Commerce, Tianjin Importers' Association and Weihai Importers' Association, as well as well-known international brand enterprises such as Korea Fuku, Thailand Zhifulian, Philippines Oucoco, Korea Mailele, Australia Kelini, Norway Okala and Bulgaria Rose.
The second is to highlight diversity. The commodities exhibited in this Expo are more colorful. On the basis of consumer goods such as food, alcohol and beauty cosmetics, the categories of leisure and entertainment, electronic products and automobiles will be further expanded. Deepen the interaction and integration between live e-commerce and exhibition activities, set up four live broadcast rooms and public live broadcast rooms in Aauto Quicker, and continuously carry out live broadcast activities during the exhibition. At the same time, the online celebrity product selection meeting was held, and more than 1,000 products from 120 exhibitors were carefully selected, and the product catalogue was established, which was put on the shelves of Aauto Quicker "Good Things Alliance" for selection by anchors with goods. During the exhibition, more than 50 local live broadcast bases, MCN organizations and other live broadcast e-commerce organizations were organized to conduct on-site product selection, and more than 20 well-known anchors were invited to take part in the on-site delivery of goods, and 50 ambassadors of online celebrity and online celebrity were selected for the second RCEP Expo, including Li Haizhen, Shen Ye and Super Dan. More than 20 million people watched the live broadcast of the exhibition, and the transaction volume of e-commerce live broadcast was over 50 million yuan. In the same period, the city realized the transaction volume of live e-commerce nearly 300 million yuan.
The third is to highlight the effectiveness. Organize professional buyers and professional visitors carefully to enhance the actual effect of the exhibition. Organized RCEP SME Forum, International Cooperation and Exchange Meeting, Investment Promotion Conference of Local Product Park, Linyi Import Commodity City Consumer Shopping Festival and other activities, which made the whole Expo more substantial and effective. RCEP SME Forum invited six guests to interpret RCEP-related policies in detail, introduced the opportunities brought by the entry into force of RCEP agreement to SMEs, and helped them to explore the market. Investment promotion meeting for product parks; with 14 investment promotion projects for product manufacturing industry signed centrally. International Cooperation and Exchange Meeting and Shandong-Ho Chi Minh City Investment and Trade Matchmaking Meeting, Linyi City and Ho Chi Minh City signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation, and Linyi Mall signed a contract for overseas shared exhibition halls in Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia and Thailand.
With the exhibition as the media, the potential of "Linyi Mall, China Grand Collection" was further released, and the 2nd RCEP Regional (Shandong) Import Commodities Fair was a complete success.
Linyi Customs actively promotes
Enterprises seize new opportunities of RCEP in foreign trade
Since the beginning of this year, Linyi Customs has strictly followed the deployment requirements of the Provincial Party Committee and Qingdao Customs, fully implemented the requirements of RCEP in Shandong Province to implement the "year of tackling the hardships", brought into full play the advantages of origin management function, actively promoted foreign trade enterprises to seize new opportunities of RCEP, and helped more and more exported goods in our city enjoy tariff concessions from importing countries by virtue of RCEP certificate of origin, fully utilized RCEP policy dividends, and fully promoted the high-level opening and high-quality development of our city.
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The main results achieved
(a) foreign trade enterprises in our city enjoy foreign tariff concessions exceeding 10 million yuan.
From January to July, Linyi Customs issued a total of 2,001 RCEP certificates of origin for export enterprises in our city, with a visa amount of 660 million yuan, which can reduce the tariff of importing countries by 10 million yuan for goods exported from RCEP market in our city.
(II) Featured products should enjoy RCEP tariff concessions.
From January to July, more than 200 foreign trade enterprises in our city enjoyed preferential RCEP tariff concessions, mainly in agricultural products, clothing, shoes and hats, wickerwork handicrafts and other industries. Among them, export enterprises such as garlic products, wickerwork and non-woven fabrics, which enjoy preferential treatment in the whole city, have enjoyed full coverage.
(3) The import and export scale of our city to RCEP member countries has greatly increased.
After the implementation of RCEP, policy dividends such as tariff reduction and origin accumulation in the region continue to be released, and the industrial chain and supply chain of enterprises in our city in the region have been reshaped and consolidated, and the competitiveness of products in the international market has been further enhanced. The regional supply chain of manufacturing enterprises is more stable, and the production cost is further reduced; The price competitiveness of export products in RCEP market is further enhanced, and advantageous agricultural products such as dehydrated vegetables have absolute right to speak in RCEP market. From January to July this year, the import and export value of our city and RCEP member countries was 36.59 billion yuan, accounting for 41.5% of our city's foreign trade; It increased by 27.2% year-on-year, 8.8 percentage points higher than the overall foreign trade growth.
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Main measures taken
(1) Multi-channel publicity and training of RCEP policy dividends, with wide enterprise coverage.
Set up RCEP expert service team, carry out RCEP tariff policy publicity "Thousands of Enterprises" activities, and carry out 12 policy publicity training sessions, with nearly 3,000 government and enterprise participants, covering nearly 1,000 foreign trade enterprises in our city; Released 72 issues of WeChat official account policy interpretation, with 35,000 readings; Distribute more than 1,000 RCEP knowledge manuals; The official website RCEP column publishes 65 issues of knowledge and information; Formulating the "one enterprise, one policy" tariff benefit scheme for 95 enterprises; Establish RCEP bottom accounts for key import enterprises, and keep track of the benefits of imported goods.
(2) Multi-sectoral division of labor, collaboration, linkage and coordination, and great synergy.
Take the lead in organizing the symposium to promote the benefits of FTA and RCEP implementation in the whole city, and promote multi-sectoral coordination; Sign a memorandum of cooperation on origin visa with CCPIT to form a long-term mechanism of contact and cooperation; Implement RCEP in Shandong Province to carry out the "year of tackling difficulties" activities, regularly exchange management models and experiences, and share information on high-risk commodities and enterprises; Implement the "one-window acceptance" reform of consular certification between the two sides, jointly carry out the annual supervision and management of origin, and mutually recognize the credit classification of applicants and the results of origin investigation, so that the "zero repetition" investigation can achieve 100%; Share the implementation data of agreements such as issuing (issuing) certificates of origin and preferential tariff reduction for imports, investigate and evaluate the implementation effect of RCEP, and be a "consultant" for government and enterprise decision-making.
(3) Implementing the superior deployment, strengthening system innovation, and making visas more convenient.
We will continue to promote the application mode of "intelligent examination+self-printing" for certificate of origin, and the visa time will be reduced to 0.5 working days, and 80% of RCEP certificates will achieve "no-meet" and "zero-errand" visas. Guide three enterprises to obtain the approved exporter qualification recognized by the customs. Enterprises can independently issue the declaration of origin according to the RCEP agreement and enjoy tariff reduction, so they no longer need to go to the customs office to get the certificate.
