Announcement Of The General Administration Of Customs: Optimize The Export Supervision Measures Of Cross-Border E-Commerce

Announcement No. 167 of 2024 of the General Administration of Customs (Announcement on Further Promoting the Development of Cross border E-commerce Export)

In order to implement the deployment of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on accelerating the development of new cross-border e-commerce formats and the Central Economic Work Conference on expanding cross-border e-commerce exports, earnestly implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, and further promote the high-quality development of cross-border e-commerce, the General Administration of Customs has announced the following measures to optimize cross-border e-commerce export supervision:

1、 Cancel the filing of cross-border e-commerce export overseas warehouse enterprises

Enterprises carrying out cross-border e-commerce export overseas warehouse business do not need to file the export overseas warehouse business model with the customs, and will no longer comply with the requirements of the second paragraph of "cross-border e-commerce enterprises carrying out export overseas warehouse business" under the "III Enterprise management" of the General Administration of Customs Announcement No. 75 in 2020. The enterprise still needs to transmit the electronic data of the warehouse order to the customs during the declaration process, and is responsible for the authenticity.

2、 Simplify export document declaration procedures

Before the declaration of cross-border e-commerce retail export and enterprise to enterprise export list, cross-border e-commerce enterprises or their agents and logistics enterprises shall respectively transmit electronic information such as transaction and logistics to the customs through the international trade "single window" or cross-border e-commerce customs clearance service platform, without the need to transmit electronic information of the receipt, and bear corresponding legal responsibility for the authenticity of the data.

3、 Expand the pilot project of "inspection before shipment" for export LCL goods

The pilot supervision mode of "inspection before shipment" for export LCL goods was carried out in 12 customs directly under Shanghai, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Xiamen, Qingdao, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Changsha, Guangzhou, Huangpu, Chengdu, Xi'an, etc. The cross-border e-commerce export goods are allowed to enter the customs supervision workplace (site) in the form of bulk goods, first accept customs inspection, and then flexible LCL shipment according to actual needs. The customs supervision workplace (site) needs to establish a real-time information collection system for all links such as goods entry, shelving, packing, and logistics transportation from the customs supervision workplace (site) to the port, so as to realize the whole process information management and real-time transmission of corresponding data with the customs network.

4、 Promote cross-border e-commerce retail export cross customs region return supervision mode

The pilot project of cross-border e-commerce retail export trans customs return supervision mode was carried out in 20 customs directly under Beijing, Tianjin, Dalian, Harbin, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Hefei, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Nanchang, Qingdao, Zhengzhou, Changsha, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Huangpu, Chengdu, Urumqi and other customs. Cross border e-commerce retail export (9610 mode) is allowed to return returned goods across directly affiliated customs areas, and returned goods should be returned to the customs supervision workplace (site) where cross-border e-commerce retail export business is conducted. Enterprises carrying out cross-border e-commerce retail export cross customs area return business should operate in a standardized manner, have enterprise production and operation system data, and open to the customs or connect with the customs information system.

5、 Other matters

Other relevant regulatory requirements shall continue to be implemented in accordance with the relevant provisions of the General Administration of Customs Announcement No. 194 in 2018, No. 44 in 2020 and No. 75 in 2020.

This announcement shall come into force on December 15, 2024.

It is hereby announced.