Online Interview
Topic: By Streamlining Administration, Delegating Power to Lower Levels and Transforming Functions, What has China Customs Transformed?
Time:02:30 PM (Thu) April 03, 2014
Special Guests:Chen Xudong, Press Spokesman of the GACC, Director of the GACC Department of Policy and Legal Affairs, and Director General of the GACC Office of Reform; Ms. Qiu Yueling, Director General of National Education and Training Center of the GACC
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By Streamlining Administration, Delegating Power to Lower Levels and Transforming Functions, What has China Customs Transformed?
[Chen Xudong]: First, simplify the registration and review procedures for declaration entities, and cut off the materials to be submitted by the enterprises, remove four conditions for application regarding the registration license for customs brokers (from 9 conditions to 5), and significantly shorten the time of handling the applications by the Customs. Besides, substantially lower the registration threshold for the customs brokers. For example, remove the threshold of a registered capital of RMB 1.5 million and the restriction on the number of declarers, reduce the operation cost of the customs brokers and facilitate their development. 04/03/2014 15:07:35
[Chen Xudong]: Second, simplify the relevant formalities for establishment of branches by the customs brokers. Upon completion of registration formalities, the customs brokers can conduct business in the Customs districts directly under GACC permitted by the licenses they obtained. If the customs brokers want to conduct business in the Customs districts directly under GACC not specified in the licenses they obtained, they are only required to go through the registration for cross-Customs-district branches. That is to say, as long as they obtain the relevant licenses, customs brokers can conduct business in the Customs jurisdictions throughout China. 04/03/2014 15:08:30
[Chen Xudong]: For more detailed information, you can refer to the Provisions of the Customs of the People's Republic of China for the Administration of Registration of Declaration Entities. 04/03/2014 15:08:37
[Wang Hua]: All right. Thank you for your explanations, Mr. Chen and Ms. Qiu. From the discussion, we can see that by transforming concepts and working ideas and improving management methods continuously, the Customs have streamlined administration, delegated more power to lower levels, transformed government functions, and deepened the reform on administrative examination and approval system. What the Customs done has really helped increase the management efficiency, brought convenience to market players and injected vitality into the market. 04/03/2014 15:09: 05
[Wang Hua]: Now we have many questions from our online audience. Let’s see their questions. 04/03/2014 15:09:29
[Netizen: anonymous]: Will there be a qualification exam for declarers in 2014? March 31, 2014 19:56:42
[Qiu Yueling]: The uniform national examination for the qualification of declarers will not be held anymore. 04/03/2014 15:10:42
[Netizen: anonymous]: The qualification exam for declarers is cancelled, and a person cannot take relevant jobs without the certificate. It’s said that China Customs Brokers Association will organize the exam once a year, isn’t it? As a result, many people spend one more year for such exam. Can we take a position related to customs declaration in advance? Can we work as a declarer as long as we are recruited by a customs broker? Or do we really have to pass the exam organized by China Customs Brokers Association first? For graduates encountering such a case, they may have to wait for the exam in next year. So the exam should have been cancelled after its holding in 2013! April 1, 2014 17:09:03
[Qiu Yueling]: After canceling the examination and approval of qualification for declarers, the Customs will not set any employment restriction more for customs declarers, and the enterprises select and employ declares by themselves. 04/03/2014 15:11:21
[Netizen: Luo Luo]: The China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (Shanghai FTZ) implements the management mode of negative list. Will this have any impact on the Customs authority in administrative examination and approval? April 1, 2014 22:15:13