Xiamen Customs has issued 45000 RCEP certificates of origin with a total value of 18.9 billion yuan

On April 13, Southeast Net (reporter Liao Liping, correspondent Zheng Bingyu) According to the statistics of Xiamen Customs, as of the first quarter of this year, Xiamen Customs had issued 45000 RCEP certificates of origin, with a value of 18.9 billion yuan. 5554 copies were issued in the first quarter, up 10.53% year on year. With the RCEP certificate of origin, relevant enterprises are expected to enjoy tariff concessions of about 250 million yuan in the importing country.

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) is the largest and most important free trade agreement negotiation in the Asia Pacific region. It has entered its third year of implementation and serves as an "ID card" to enjoy the dividends of RCEP policy, The RCEP certificate of origin is sought after by many import and export enterprises.

"With this certificate, the import tariff rate of our exported umbrellas at the time of customs clearance in Japan will be reduced from 6.4% to 3.5%. Only a batch of goods can enjoy tariff concessions of nearly 10000 yuan, and export products can enter the Japanese market at a more advantageous price." Cai Shuqin, manager of the business department of Xiamen Xinhong Umbrella Co., Ltd., said, "Since the RCEP came into force, the company has applied for 106 RCEP certificates of origin, with a value of 2.124 million yuan. The reduction of tariffs has further improved the competitiveness of products in overseas markets. Since the beginning of this year, the company's exports to RCEP member countries have achieved a counter trend growth."

In order to promote the implementation of the RCEP policy, Xiamen Customs searched and ranked the enterprises under its jurisdiction in advance, actively analyzed and discovered the enterprises that could benefit, carried out the action of "entering thousands of enterprises and solving thousands of problems", continued to carry out policy presentations in an all-round way through "online+offline", and thoroughly interpreted the basic knowledge of origin RCEP tariff concessions and rules of origin, etc., set up a special RCEP service window on the business site, answer the enterprise's questions online in a timely manner through the service hotline and other channels, closely follow up the implementation results, and help enterprises make full use of the "paper gold" of RCEP.