"Made in South Korea" in Shandong Xianghui RCEP imports of 60 %

Wind Financial Reporter Wang Beibei Correspondent Zhao Guangying Xu Fumin Liu Pingbo

Recently, in the Rizhao Customs Clearance Hall of Qingdao Customs, the customs officers set the customs clearance procedures for a group of car parts imported from South Korea for the Kaiffec Automobile System (Beijing) Co., Ltd. Rizhao Branch. With the RCEP origin certificate issued by South Korea, these imported goods have enjoyed a 0.7%tariff discount.

"If you can meet the rules of origin of the China -South Korea Free Trade Agreement, you can enjoy more tariff discounts." Chen Weiguo, manager of the company's customs clearance department, said, but because these car parts are only 40%of the regional value ingredients in South Korea, they cannot meet the middle China 50%of the regional value ingredients of the Korean Free Trade Agreement requires that the enterprise has not enjoyed the import before.

Under the introduction of the customs, the company learned that the RCEP origin rules that took effect this year are more loose, and regional value components only need 40%, so the company chose to let Korean customers apply for the RCEP origin certificate to enjoy the customs clearance. Chen Weiguo said that although the tariff reduction of these spare parts imported by the enterprise is not as large as the China -Korea Free Trade Agreement, but compared with the previously unable to enjoy the import, it is expected to further reduce the cost of import tax burden every year. At the same time, the company's full coverage of the company's imported goods from South Korea.

South Korea is an important trading partner in Shandong. In the first seven months of this year, Shandong's total value to South Korea was 161.72 billion yuan, an increase of 11%year -on -year. "From the perspective of imported goods from Shandong, although the RCEP agreement tax rate of most goods is higher than the tax rate of the China -Korea Free Trade Agreement, the threshold for RCEP for chemical, plastic products and automotive parts is lower. RCEP agreement tax rates such as nickel and cobalt aluminum anode materials and thermal shrinkage tube are still the same and even higher of the China -Korea Free Trade Agreement. , Qingdao Customs and Jinan Customs with a total of 3.3 billion yuan of imported goods are applicable to the preferential tax rate under the RCEP item to reduce the import tax of 150 million yuan for enterprises. 80 %.

As a high -level, high -standard free trade agreement, RCEP makes the two -way flow of the industrial chain and supply chain in the region more unblocked. Zhucheng Dongxiao Biotechnology Co., Ltd. is a large corn starch deep processing enterprise. The tariff reduction of the RCEP item brings new opportunities for enterprises to South Korea exports.

"Our company does not reduce taxes under the China -Korea Free Trade Agreement on the Malt Popularity exported to South Korea, but under the RCEP, South Korea has given us zero tariffs, which is 8 percentage points lower than the previous import tax rate, which increases us. Enterprise's competitiveness in the Korean market. "Guo Chuanzhuang, general manager of the company, said.

According to statistics, in the first seven months of this year, Qingdao Customs, Jinan Customs and Shandong Provincial Trade Promotional Assembly system issued a total of 72,000 RCEP origin certificates, ranking first in the country, and exported to enjoy US $ 3.13 billion in exports. The tariff reduction is about RMB 200 million.

"Although exported products accounted for 3.6%of the batch of RCEP goods in Shandong exported products, because my country and South Korea took effect in RCEP, the China -Korea Free Trade Agreement, and the Asia -Pacific trade agreement, the overall enjoyment of the exported goods exported goods is still very very good. Purpose. "Liu Jie, deputy director of the Commercial Legal Service Center of the Shandong Provincial Trade Promotional Association, introduced that in the first seven months of this year, a total of 218,000 quotes in Shandong Province spoke RCEP, the China -Korea Free Trade Agreement and the Asia -Pacific Trade Agreement. The origin of the origin, enjoy the value of 45.08 billion yuan.

A few days ago, the General Administration of Customs issued an announcement to cancel the limit of 20 items of the upper limit of the number of goods in import and export goods under the China -South Korea Free Trade Agreement. On August 9, the China -Korea Foreign Minister met. The two parties agreed to speed up the second phase of the China -Korea Free Trade Agreement and strive to reach an agreement as soon as possible.

Doushan Construction Machinery (China) Co., Ltd., located in the Yantai area of ​​Shandong Pilot Free Trade Zone, is one of the beneficiary companies for the adjustment of the China -Korea Free Trade Agreement Policy.

"We import tens of thousands of spare parts from the headquarters of South Korea every year, and the number of shipments is not large each time, but the category often exceeds hundreds." Wei Wei, the company's customs manager The upper limit of 20 goods in the original place of origin, and the company can only apply for more than 20 imports of imported goods in a single batch. Considering factors such as the bill of declaration declaration and the cost of foreign certifications, the imported parts with a relatively low value of the goods value The enterprise took the initiative to abandon the tariff reduction of the free trade agreement, which caused the enterprise's China -Korea Free Trade Agreement to enjoy a benefit rate of only about 60%.

"After the upper limit of the 20th Certificate of Origin of the China -Korea Free Trade Agreement is canceled, it is expected that the company can reduce the cost of import tariffs by 6 million yuan each year." Wei Wei said.

According to statistics, in the first seven months of this year, Qingdao Customs and Jinan Customs were 16.75 billion yuan from South Korea's imported goods, and the preferential tax rates under the China -Korea Free Trade Agreement and the Asia -Pacific Trade Agreement item were reduced to reduce import taxes for enterprises 680 million yuan in import taxes. Essence

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