In December 2020, the overall customs clearance time for import and export was 34.91 hours and 1.78 hours respectively, 1.82 hours and 0.95 hours lower than that of 2017, and 64.2% and 85.5% lower than that of 2017, respectively.
On the premise of respecting the independent choice of enterprises in customs clearance, the Customs has actively pushed forward business reforms such as "declaration in advance" and "two-step declaration", steadily promoted the pilot programs of "direct pick-up alongside ship" for import goods and "direct loading upon arrival" for export goods, and the customs clearance time has significantly increased.
Last year, China temporarily exempted port construction fees for import and export goods, halved the collection of oil pollution damage compensation funds for ships, and reduced port charges and security charges for port facilities by 20 percent respectively. For the year, 15 billion yuan of port construction fees were waived, and 960 million yuan of port maintenance fees and security fees for port facilities were reduced.
China has continued to streamline the regulatory documents for import and export links, merging two regulatory documents and canceling one regulatory document this year. At present, the number of regulatory documents for import and export has been reduced from 86 in 2018 to 41. Except for 3 kinds of documents that cannot be connected to the Internet due to the need for security and confidentiality, the rest 38 kinds of documents can be applied online, among which 19 kinds of documents have been accepted through the "single window" of international trade.
The "single window" of international trade, so far has been for the connection of total on the total system with 25 departments and information sharing, port services all over the country and various regions, accumulative total more than 3.96 million registered users, launched 18 categories of basic services, provide 729 service items, daily filing volume 12 million votes, basic meet the demand of "one-stop" business is dealt with, More and more people will benefit from each other.
It is understood that on the basis of the earlier reduction of some administrative examination and approval items, the customs will cancel the registration of customs declaration enterprises, the record approval of export food production enterprises, the inspection permit of import and export commodity inspection and identification business, the qualification permit of personnel engaged in the entry and exit quarantine processing business and other four administrative licensing items. At present, the pilot reform of "separation of business permits" covering all entertainment-related business permits has been launched, the entry threshold has been further lowered, and examination and approval services have been continuously optimized. Local customs also provide enterprises with "Inspection and Quarantine Certificate of Entry Goods", online query of certificate of origin, self-service printing and other services.