In December 2020, the overall customs clearance time for imports and exports nationwide was 34.91 hours and 1.78 hours, respectively, a year-on-year decrease of 1.82 hours and 0.95 hours, respectively, and a reduction of 64.2% and 85.5% from 2017.
On the premise of respecting the independent choice of enterprises for customs clearance, the customs actively promoted business reforms such as "advance declaration" and "two-step declaration", and steadily promoted the pilot projects of "ship-side direct pickup" of imported goods and "direct loading of export goods", and the timeliness of customs clearance was significant. Promote.
Last year, my country gradually exempted import and export cargo port construction fees, halved the vessel oil pollution damage compensation fund, and reduced cargo port charges and port facility security fees by 20%. The annual exemption of port construction fees amounted to 15 billion yuan, and the reduction of cargo port charges and port facility security fees reached 960 million yuan.
my country continues to streamline regulatory documents for import and export links. Since the beginning of this year, two regulatory documents have been merged and one regulatory document has been cancelled. At present, the regulatory documents that need to be verified in the import and export process have been reduced from 86 in 2018 to 41. With the exception of 3 types that cannot be connected to the Internet due to security and confidentiality, the remaining 38 types have all been applied for online, and 19 types of certificates have been accepted through the "single window" of international trade.
Up to now, the “single window” of international trade has realized the docking and information sharing with the total system of 25 departments, serving all ports and various regions in the country, accumulatively registered users of more than 3.96 million, and launched 18 major categories of basic service functions. There are 729 service items, and the daily volume of business declaration is 12 million, which basically meets the needs of enterprises for "one-stop" business processing, and the degree of inclusiveness continues to increase.
It is understood that on the basis of some administrative examination and approval items that have been reduced in the previous period, the customs will cancel the registration of customs declaration enterprises, the approval of the filing and approval of export food production enterprises, the inspection permit for the inspection and appraisal of import and export commodities, and the qualification permit for personnel engaged in the entry and exit quarantine processing business. And other 4 administrative licensing items. At present, the full coverage of the reform of "separation of licenses and licenses" for all customs-related business licensing matters has been launched, the entry barriers have been further reduced, and approval services have continued to be optimized. Local customs also provide enterprises with services such as the "Certificate of Inspection and Quarantine of Entry Goods", online query of certificates of origin, and self-service printing.