In the first month following RCEP came into effect, Zhejiang assisted enterprises to enjoy more than 800,000 US dollars
Daily Business Daily News As the world’s largest free trade agreement, the “Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership” (hereinfollowing referred to as RCEP) came into force in the first month, many foreign trade enterprises in Zhejiang ushered in a “good start”. As a representative of professional foreign trade enterprises in our province, Zhejiang Dongfang Group has a number of import and export companies, mainly engaged in clothing, home textiles and other products, mainly exported to Japan and European and American markets. “Since RCEP came into effect, our company has applied for a total of 71 RCEP certificates of origin, involving products exported to Japan amounting to US$2.835 million. The certificates enjoy preferential tariff treatment, which further consolidates and expands the Japanese market.” said the person in charge of Zhejiang Dongfang Group. .
Since the beginning of this year, in order to seize the opportunity for the implementation of RCEP, the province’s trade promotion system has acted quickly to provide “one-stop” services for the origin of RCEP, instructing enterprises to communicate with customers, confirm product information, make product records in advance, and apply for the first time Receive the certificate of origin under RCEP and fully enjoy the policy dividends.
As of the end of January this year, the province’s trade promotion system has issued a total of 819 certificates of origin under RCEP for enterprises, mainly including textiles and garments, auto parts, electronic products, daily packaging, metal products and other products, involving an amount of 41.5168 million US dollars. It is estimated that It can reduce or exempt tariffs of 830,000 US dollars for enterprises, and the main destination countries are Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia, etc.
In the next step, the province’s trade promotion system will focus on the RCEP agreement, further increase its publicity and promotion efforts, optimize the online visa application of “no face-to-face processing”, promote the independent printing of certificates of origin, and help our province’s enterprises to explore the international market and enhance their international competitiveness. .
At present, our province’s trade promotion system can issue certificates of origin for 17 free trade agreements (including preferential trade arrangements) that have come into effect. The majority of enterprises can use the “Zhejiang International Trade Single Window” (http://zj.singlewindow.cn), the CCPIT Online Visa System (http://qiye.ccpiteco.net) or a third-party platform that connects with the CCPIT Online Visa System. Make a declaration.
Provincial and municipal Councils for the Promotion of International Trade can accept corporate consultation. Zhejiang CCPIT Consulting Tel: 0571-85811961.
Source: Daily Commercial Daily Author: reporter Yang Yilin Editor: Wang Hao
