On November 1, a batch of bonded aviation materials imported from Germany by Lufthansa Technik Shenzhen Co., Ltd. with a value of 8 million yuan arrived at Shenzhen Baoan International Airport. The aviation materials occupy a large amount of capital and high requirements for the timeliness, through the "pass guarantee + follow-up sampling" intelligent inspection and supervision mode, the product was put into production in just one day.
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations, Sino-German economic and trade relations have also developed to a deeper level. According to data published by the German Federal Statistical Office, China has become Germany's most important trade partner for the sixth consecutive year. 2021, the bilateral trade volume between Germany and China reaches 245.4 billion euros, an increase of 15.1% compared to 2020. In this process, the relevant Chinese authorities to promote the concentration of high-quality industries and projects to land at the same time, through early declaration, aggregated taxation, first release after inspection and other facilitation measures to optimize supervision, to ensure rapid customs clearance of high-tech and intelligent equipment, to promote the development of Sino-German trade to higher quality.
The "pull" of electromechanical products is enhanced
"Aircraft material management is a key link in the aircraft maintenance industry, and the supply and flow efficiency of aviation material is directly related to whether the maintenance business can be completed on time. The compression of aerial material production time has greatly enhanced the market competitiveness of aerial material maintenance business enterprises." Ltd. customs manager Ruan Song told reporters, in the "guarantee of conformity + follow-up sampling" intelligent inspection and supervision mode, the enterprise to provide the customs certificate of airworthiness aviation materials list, check the guarantee of conformity, the customs department that the imported aviation materials for centralized decontrol, greatly enhance the efficiency of supervision, so that the product into production and use cycle from 4 days to 1 day.
As an enterprise specializing in aircraft component maintenance and aviation material security business, Lufthansa Technik is also the core enterprise in Shenzhen to promote the Airport Comprehensive Free Trade Zone aircraft technology service center project. Since this year, the company's import and export volume reached 2.793 billion yuan, including nearly 1 billion yuan to Germany.
In Shenzhen's trade with Germany, exports to Germany's products are mainly mechanical and electrical products, electrical equipment, electronic components and other products to pull Shenzhen's foreign trade role is obvious. According to Shenzhen Customs statistics, in the first three quarters of this year, Shenzhen exports of electromechanical products to Germany 35.46 billion yuan, accounting for 79.1% of the total value of Shenzhen's exports to Germany in the same period. Electrical equipment, electronic components, automatic data processing equipment and other major products to pull the export of 11.5 percentage points. Imports, Germany's medical drugs, medical devices and integrated circuit products grew at a faster rate. The first three quarters, Shenzhen from Germany imported medical materials and drugs, medical instruments and equipment and integrated circuits 2.58 billion yuan, 920 million yuan and 2.12 billion yuan, an increase of 14.6%, 27.3% and 9.5%, respectively.
"Germany has been the largest trading partner of Shenzhen in the EU countries for many years. In the first three quarters, Shenzhen's import and export to Germany 63.2 billion yuan, an increase of 13.8%, of which exports 44.83 billion yuan, an increase of 21.1%." Shenzhen Customs officials said that the product characteristics of Shenzhen's foreign trade with Germany, the customs department established a "point-to-point" contact mechanism to guide enterprises to compulsory product certification commodity code range of airborne equipment directory definition, to help enterprises use the "two-step declaration ", "advance declaration", "airworthiness certificate" and other facilitated customs clearance policies. Especially for the Sino-German manufacturing industry characteristics, strengthen the industry quality, reputation and technical supervision, and strongly support the Baoan District Sino-German (Europe) Industrial Demonstration Park construction project.
According to Nanjing Customs statistics, the first three quarters of this year, Jiangsu Province to Germany import and export 165.51 billion yuan, an increase of 7.3%. Imports, mechanical and electrical products, plastic products, medical materials and pharmaceuticals in the forefront; exports, mechanical and electrical products, labor-intensive products in the forefront.
The "hometown of German enterprises" adds vitality again
Taicang City, Jiangsu Province is the famous "hometown of German enterprises in China", the total number of German-invested enterprises reached 453, the formation of core automotive parts, high-end equipment manufacturing and other special industrial clusters, including more than 50 world "invisible champions", cooperation with Germany continues to burst out surging The cooperation with Germany has continued to burst forth with vigor.
KERN-LIEBERS (Taicang) Co., Ltd. is the first German-invested enterprise stationed in Taicang, and has been in urgent need of improving the overall business and management level of the company. After understanding the situation of the enterprise, Taicang Customs set up a credit cultivation expert team to visit the enterprise for several times for field guidance, not only to promote the newly revised "Advanced Certified Enterprise Standard" of Customs to the enterprise, but also to guide the enterprise to carry out the internal audit of import and export in 2022 to improve the compliance management level of the enterprise.
"After obtaining the Customs AEO Advanced Certification qualification, the customer complaint rate and product error rate have dropped significantly, and the customs clearance time has been compressed by 50%, which has enhanced our competitiveness in developing new markets." Chen Huanhuan, customs manager of the company, told the reporter that as an important member of Taicang European Chamber of Commerce and a senior German enterprise, KERN-LIEBERS (Taicang) Co., Ltd. has also taken the initiative to promote the customs AEO policy to its partners, making it an influential "new business card" in the circle of German enterprises. At present, six German enterprises in Taicang have become advanced certified customs enterprises.
Prescription" for supervision mode
As early as November 2010, with EMAG (China) Machinery Co., Ltd. stationed in Changzhou Jintan, Jiangsu Changzhou and Germany's economic and trade cooperation has gradually deepened. From January to September this year, the total import and export value of Sino-German (Changzhou) Innovation Industrial Park was 2.77 billion yuan, an increase of 29.3% year-on-year.
Bo Bing, the operation director of EMAG, told the reporter: "Previously, the company used the traditional electronic manual supervision mode for import and export. This model is contract-based, with one manual for each contract. Affected by the epidemic, the overseas market orders change a lot, the delivery period is tight, the contract is changed and rescheduled from time to time, plus the volume of trade contracts has been rising year after year, all these factors make the manual supervision mode difficult to adapt to the business needs of enterprises."
In the visit to understand the enterprise's request, Changzhou Customs immediately prescribed for the enterprise "network supervision" prescription, guide the enterprise to open the electronic book. "In the supervision mode, an enterprise set up a book, so that the bonded processing trade data to achieve intelligent supervision." According to Changzhou Customs comprehensive business two section chief Lu Shiqiang introduced, networking supervision of the electronic book management concept in line with the management model of machinery enterprises, to meet the diversified material changes, new without the number and material list of restrictions, but also for enterprises to save a certain amount of tax. At the same time, the supervision method through the customs supervision system timely access to enterprise import and export data, automatic monitoring risk tips, data rolling write-off, simplify the establishment of the enterprise's books and write-off procedures, but also help enterprises to reduce about 20% of the administrative costs.
"Changzhou's favorable policies for serving economic development and absorbing foreign investment provide better conditions for investment and give us more confidence in our future prospects." Bo Bing said.
