reply In the first eight months of this year, Shenzhen's total import and export volume reached 1.88

Since the beginning of this year, shenzhen Customs has made efforts to ensure the steady development of key industries, actively supported the production and operation of market-oriented enterprises, and continued to optimize the business environment of the port. From January to August 2020, the total import and export value of Shenzhen reached 1.88 trillion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 2%, ranking first among the top five foreign trade cities in China, accounting for 9.4% of the country's foreign trade imports and exports. Among them, exports reached 1.04 trillion yuan, ranking first among large and medium-sized cities in China.In addition, Shenzhen Customs will deepen the promotion of the reform of customs clearance operation modes such as "advance declaration", "two-step declaration" and "consolidated declaration". The mode of "direct pick-up alongside ship" for imports and "direct loading upon arrival at Hong Kong" for exports will be introduced on a pilot basis, and the overall customs clearance time will be reduced with all efforts. By August 2020, the total clearance time for imports and exports in the customs zone will reach 9.65 hours and 1.69 hours respectively.In the first eight months of this year, tax burden reduction policies such as tax deferral and reduction or exemption of late fees were implemented in the customs. A total of 2.24 billion yuan of tax deferral was deferred for 205 enterprises, 26 million yuan of rent declaration and tax payment for air transport enterprises was suspended, and late fees were reduced or exempted for 53.395 million yuan.On August 18, the first China-Europe Bay Express train set off from Pinghu South Railway Station in Shenzhen for Duisburg, Germany. Currently, the train has been in regular operation, carrying 710 tons of goods worth about RMB 44.5 million yuan to Europe.In combination with the implementation of cross-border E-COMMERCE B2B export business, Shenzhen Customs has implemented the "Cultivation of new Forms of business", optimized the regional layout of cross-border e-commerce in the customs area, supported the operation of full forms of business, and fully led the development of cross-border e-commerce business in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. From January to August 2020, 430 million pieces of cross-border e-commerce retail goods worth 23 billion yuan were inspected and released in the customs zone. Among them, 4.35 million pieces of cross-border e-commerce B2B export goods have been inspected and released, with a value of 7.9 billion YUAN, ranking first in China.