Foreign Trade Attention! Starting Today, These New Regulations Are Being Implemented.

New regulations on foreign trade in April

With the outbreak of new crown pneumonia in Europe and America, masks and other anti epidemic materials have become popular exports. Many countries have urgently cut down tariffs on epidemic prevention materials and issued policies to help them import quickly. China's export related products to these countries, we should pay attention to the renewal of policies:

In March 5th, U.S.A The trade representative office issued a notice to exempt 27 American businesses from more than 100 items of medical products imported from China, including masks, disinfectant wipes, disposable medical gloves, and sample collection containers. In March 12th, the US Trade Representative Office announced that tariffs on some imported medicines, including masks, stethoscope and sphygmomanometer cuffs, should not be imported. In March 17th, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the "optimized N95 mask supply strategy: Crisis / replacement strategy".

European Union Members will publish recommendations on compliance assessment and market surveillance procedures for medical devices and personal protective equipment (PPE) during the epidemic situation in Official Journal of the EuropeanUnion.

Korea From March 18th to June 30th, the tariffs on imported medical masks dropped from 10% to zero, and the tariff on the core material of masks dropped from 8% to zero.

Iran The import duty on masks dropped from 55% to 5%.

Turkey The import tariffs on ethanol, disposable medical masks and medical ventilators were cancelled.

Thailand, Pakistan, Vietnam, Brazil, Venezuela For other countries, please see here: Anti epidemic materials! Export to these countries about tax relief!

As of March 25th, a total of 25 countries (regions) restricted imports of goods.

1. Turkey: Suspended imports from China include poultry, seafood, mollusks, animal fats and similar animal products.

2. Philippines: Temporarily prohibit the import of poultry and wild birds and their products from China.

3. South Korea: Temporarily prohibit the import of coronavirus from China, including snakes, bats, raccoons, badgers, civet cats and other wild animals.

4. Indonesia: Temporarily prohibit the importation of live animals from China.

5. Armenia: Temporarily prohibit the import of animal products and raw materials from China. This prohibition also applies to animal products imported from China from other countries.

6. Azerbaijan: Since January 29th, livestock, animal products, seafood and animals used in wildlife parks have been temporarily prohibited from China.

7. Tajikistan: It is forbidden to import all types of food from China (except tea and crop seeds). Chinese products imported from China are also strictly controlled, and products imported from China are strictly controlled in border and transportation and customs clearance at border ports is stopped.

8. Jordan: Since February 2nd, the import of animal and plant products from China and the import of cosmetics imported from China into the Jordan have been suspended.

9. Kazakhstan: Suspension of entry of aquatic products in China.

10. Kyrgyzstan: It is forbidden to import meat and its products from China, impose temporary restrictions on live animals and animal derived products, and strengthen veterinary and hygienic control of imported products on the border. (having reached an understanding through negotiation)

11. Turkmenistan: According to the feedback from enterprises in the customs area, Turkmenistan ports prohibit the entry of Chinese tea.

12. Pakistan: Karachi port strengthens fumigation and disinfection measures for animal products from China. In addition, according to the feedback from members of the food and Beverage Association, Pakistan importers asked the Chinese walnut exporters to provide proof of no new coronavirus contamination.

13. Russia: Since January 31st, temporary restriction measures have been applied to live insects, mites and nematodes, live insects and botanical extracts (specimens) from China, restricting entry and cross-border transport through Russia. In January 30th, 1 months of temporary restrictions were imposed to restrict all kinds of animals that were produced in China for exotic purposes, including insects, arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, etc. Or live fish and aquatic animals, entering Russia and transshipping through Russia. We also request that we suspend the quarantine certificate for the above animal and plant products by March 1st.

14. Georgia: Temporarily stop importing all living, non living animal and animal products from China.

15. Germany: According to the feedback from members of the food trade association, German importers have asked Chinese honey exporters to provide proof of no new coronavirus contamination.

16. Egypt: The Egyptian food safety agency announced the ban on the import of onions, garlic, carrots and ginger from China, while strengthening control of all food imported from China from Asian countries (including regions), including strengthening cooperation with multiple agencies (mainly quarantine agencies) and strengthening inspections of all imported and exported goods. The head of the Egyptian food safety agency stressed that the food safety agency will inspect more than 14 agricultural products, including potatoes, citrus and peanuts.

17. Cameroon: It is forbidden to import all food from China.

18. Mauritius: Since February 6th, Mauritius has decided to embargo some goods exported to the country in the Hongkong Special Administrative Region of China, Taiwan region of China and Southern China region of China. Prohibited goods are: (1) live animals and fish (2) frozen and dried seafood, including fish products (3) frozen and dried meat (4) wool (5) animal hair (6) animal feed, including fish feed.

19. Kampuchea: Suspend all wildlife transactions.

20. Mongolia: It is forbidden to import chicken and egg products from China, and has strengthened quarantine supervision over imported goods from China.

21. Nepal: Suspended animal products imported from China. China's fruit imports are suspended.

22. Saudi Arabia: Suspension of freight services between 50 countries (including China).

23. the United States: Measures should be taken to ensure the quality of imported food and prevent the spread of the new crown virus. To strengthen supervision over imported Chinese products, many inspection measures have been adopted, such as import screening, inspection, sampling and import early warning.

24. Italy: The importer asked the Chinese walnut exporter to provide proof of no new coronavirus contamination.

25. Ukraine: Temporarily prohibit the import of pets (dogs, cats, etc.) and wild carnivorous animals from China.

China Since March 28th, foreigners have been temporarily allowed to enter China with valid visas and residence permits. Since March 29th, every airline in the country has only 1 routes to operate in any country, and there are no more than 1 classes per week for each airline. Foreign airlines can only keep 1 flights to China, and there are no more than 1 classes per week.

Russia All international flights and charter flights will be suspended from March 27th. From March 30th, all Russian highways, railways, river transport and mixed border ports will be closed.

Japan Kyodo news on March 30th, the Japanese government basically decided to reject the United States, China, South Korea and the United Kingdom, including almost all the European countries and regions of the entry of foreigners.

From April 1st onwards, all entry The Republic of Korea All personnel, regardless of nationality, are subject to compulsory isolation for a period of two weeks.

Kampuchea From 23:59 on March 30th, all visa waiver policies will be suspended, and the issuance of tourist visas, electronic visas and landing visas will be suspended for a period of one month.

Argentina Since March 27th, all border land ports, international ports and international airports have been closed. In addition to their citizens, all foreigners are prohibited from entering the country. Argentina residents who live overseas for long periods are also prohibited.

For more details, please see here: More than 60 countries around the world enter into a state of emergency or "state closure". Only two days, 40 thousand flights canceled!

In addition, foreign trade people are assured that the closure of ports in most countries is restricted to the flow of personnel. Trade in goods will not be affected. 。

Recently, DHL The announcement said that the export of India, Nepal, Pakistan, Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau, Comoros, Mauritius, reunion, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sao Tome and Principe, Somalia Republic, Ma Yat, Libya and Venezuela in March 25th will be suspended in the 16 countries.

The DHL standard price in Hongkong is suspended from the following 11 countries: Guinea Bissau, Comoros, Mauritius, reunion, Seychelles, Somalia, Sao Tome and Principe, Somalia Republic, Ma yor, Libya and Venezuela.

Delivery and pick up services in parts of Spain, Austria, France, Portugal, Italy and Czech Republic will also be suspended due to the impact of the European epidemic.

DHL recommends that European sellers make sure that the recipient area is a non quarantine area before shipment, and that the goods can be returned normally to the sender. The goods will be returned to the sender, and the refund fee will be borne by themselves, and no reduction or exemption can be made.

In addition, according to UPS The notice, from March 26, 2020, suspended the guarantee services for all goods (also known as standby services). That is to say, at present, UPS does not guarantee the delivery time of all goods. In addition, import and export services in parts of Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu, Gil Baty, Wallis and Fu Tuya will be suspended or postponed.

According to the notice issued by shipping company, the Dubai port has issued new regulations.

1. shippers, consignees and notifications need to submit a complete company's head. Consignee and notify person need to submit zip code, telephone / fax / mailbox.

2. HS CODE:

A) the column needs to submit 8 bits of HS CODE;

B) in case of multiple names of a cabinet, you also need to provide HS detailed list. Please send corresponding mailboxes before the check list.

C) the cargo transferred in Dubai also needs to meet the above requirements.

According to the customs declaration of Sierra Leone, CTN NO must be displayed on bills of lading and manifest from now on. Therefore, the cargo requirements for FREETOWN are summarized as follows:

1. shows 8 bit HS CODE;

2. shows ENS NUMBER. Www.acdsl.com Registered goods information);

3. shows CTN NUMBER.

Brazil now requires that CNPJ must be displayed in the consignee's column, that is, consignee name +CNPJ+, other information, and other information can be displayed in the name column by symbol connection due to character restrictions.

According to a research report released in March 25th by the Oxford Economic Research Institute, a British think tank, in order to contain the spread of the new crown virus, major cities such as the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom adopted "closed city" or social estrangement measures. These measures will last 12 weeks. Will result in the highest shrinkage of global consumption in 3 months 32% 。

In the previous Interactive survey, more than 1000 foreign trade people feedback, old customers postponed or reduced orders, the following are the warning information of some large customers.

Primark, the largest fashion retailer in the UK, cancelled all orders.

Top Shop parent Group Arcadia freeze payment to suppliers;

Peacocks cancels all orders before June 20th;

New Look halted all production.

Debenhams deferred payment for one month;

Fossil cancels orders and hits Dongguan enterprises...

How to deal with the current cancellation and delay orders? Please see here: A large number of orders have been cancelled or postponed. These 11 suggestions may be useful.

On March 25th, the office of the trade representative of the United States announced the announcement of products under the A list of China's 300 billion dollars plus tariff products, which involved 12 excluded products, including Plastic bag for medical ice bag Other products, that is, the products in this exclusion list, will not be subject to a 7.5% tariff within 1 years from the date of implementation.

On March 20th, the office of the trade representative of the United States announced the product elimination and revision notice under the list of $200 billion plus tariff products: 177 new products were excluded, 5 new products were excluded (the original 18 batches were excluded), and 2 historical exclusions were revised.

On March 14th, the office of the trade representative of the United States announced the second batch of products to exclude the validity of the extended products list (34 billion products in the tariff exclusion list), and the expiry date was originally due to expire in March 25, 2020. The notice decision will exclude the validity period from March 25, 2020 for one year extension.

The European Commission announced that the cost of some steel wheels produced in China was 66.4%, and the decision came into effect in March 5th for a period of 5 years.

As early as February 2019, the European Union launched an anti-dumping investigation on a complaint based on the European wheel manufacturers association. The anti-dumping duty is the preliminary result of this investigation. The tariff measure came into effect in October 11, 2019, and the validity period was initially set at six months. The EU extended the time to 5 years at the time of the 6 month deadline.

  Sri Lanka's "daily finance" reported on March 20th, the central bank announced that it suspended the import of motor vehicles through the letter of credit. However, in 2020, exceptions were excepted in order No. 01 of the banking act; suspension of the import and export of letters of credit, documents against acceptance or advance payment was not required for the first requirement of the banking act of 2020; the authorized foreign exchange dealer was restricted to a maximum of 5000 US dollars. Or foreign exchange equivalent to foreign currency. The above measures will last for three months.

In March 13th, the Ministry of production and development of Argentina announced that the initial anti-dumping duty on non electric tricycles originating in China had imposed a provisional anti-dumping duty of 24% on the products involved. The customs code of the South Communist city is 9503.00.10. The resolution takes effect from the date of promulgation, and the validity period is six months.

The Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation announced on the 17 day that since March 20, 2020, The export tax rebate rate of 1084 products such as ceramic sanitary ware and disinfectant increased to 13%, and the export tax rebate rate of 380 products such as plant growth regulator was raised to 9%.

The list of products to increase the export tax rebate rate is raised. After paying attention to subscription number "focusvision", the tax rebate will be answered and the system will be sent automatically.

On March 24th, Premier Li Keqiang chaired a State Council executive meeting. The meeting pointed out that shrinking orders for foreign demand. Support enterprise online negotiation, online exhibition, take the initiative to grasp orders, promote cooperation. According to the new changes in the international epidemic situation, we should postpone the time of the spring Canton Fair and organize alternatives such as Internet.

In March 19th, the general office of the Ministry of Commerce and the general office of the Ministry of Finance issued the notice on "making good use of special funds for domestic and foreign trade to support steady foreign trade, steady foreign investment and promoting consumption". The special funds for foreign trade and economic development should be tilted in the fields of foreign trade and economic cooperation, which will be greatly affected by the epidemic, increase the support for small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises, support the construction of the platform for attracting investment from the opening up to the outside world, and roll out the development of the "small group" in the border area and across the border area, and support the processing trade between the central and western regions and Northeast China. 。

On March 13th, the General Administration of Customs announced that in order to support the enterprises in coping with the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic situation, the competent customs authorities could postpone the processing of materials for the temporary entry and exit cargo consignee and the ATA single witness holder for the temporary entry and exit goods which had been delayed for 3 times and affected by the epidemic. For extension of no more than 6 months It can be extended through the "Internet + customs" integrated online service platform.

The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of transport jointly issued the policy, from 24 hours in March 1st to June 30th at the end of the year. It is exempted from import and export goods, that is, the port construction cost for importing goods from abroad and abroad; and half of the compensation fund for oil pollution damage from ships. For those who meet the conditions of exemption and reduction but the contributory fee has been paid, the central maritime administrative agency shall refund the relevant bank account or deduct the payment amount from the payer.

In addition to the export tax rebate rate of 1084 products such as porcelain sanitary ware and the export rebate rate of 13% products such as plant growth regulator and other 380 products, the export tax rebate rate has increased to 9%. Han Guorong, deputy director of the State Taxation Administration's tax service division recently made a clear policy again: "in order to ease the pressure of export enterprises' funds, expand the range of paperless declaration of export tax rebates." The average processing time of the national normal export tax rebate increased by 20% on the 10 working days in 2019. "