Shunde port logistics services are improving day by day

      Business daily reporter Wang Junxia reports

      Cen, the boss of a Steel company in Lecong, recently deposited more than 3,000 tons of steel he had just bought overseas at the Rongqi Port Public bonded warehouse of Shunde Container Terminals Co., and then leisurely went to Hong Kong to discuss the price of the steel with the buyer. He told reporters that in the past, when steel entered the port, it would rush around to find a buyer. Otherwise, the 30% tariff and VALUE-ADDED tax would "tie up" a lot of working capital. After setting up the Rongqi Port public bonded warehouse, many red tape and business risks were removed.

      Recently, with the official establishment and opening of the Rongqi Port public bonded warehouse, nearly 100 orders of business poured into the warehouse. Ronggui a large home appliance enterprises export department manager to introduce to the reporter, although the past RongQi port is near, is one of the largest foreign trade port, shunde and shunde all port joint inspection unit's headquarters are located here, but since there is no open bonded services, manufacturers can only further to other ports, from material purchase to electrical exports were now available one-stop services, more convenient.

      The person in charge of the relevant department in Shunde said in an interview that the approval of Shunde Container Terminals Co., Ltd. to set up the Rongqi Port public bonded warehouse is a sign of better logistics services in Shunde. From now on, the import goods of processing trade, re-export goods, temporary storage goods of foreign businessmen and general trade goods without customs clearance may be stored in bonded warehouses with the approval of the Customs. Goods stored in the bonded warehouse can be exempted from duty, import license temporarily, customs formalities delayed, until the goods out of the warehouse to determine the whereabouts of duty will be determined. Bonded warehouse goods storage period of up to 2 years, that is, into the bonded warehouse goods 2 years can be exempt from taxes, it is not only beneficial to foreign trade enterprises to raise the utilization ratio of capital and rich way to trade, but also conducive to enterprise grasp trade initiative, reduce the production cost of import and export goods and the trade risk, strengthen the competitiveness of participation in world trade.

      It is reported that The public bonded warehouse of Rongqi Port covers an area of 3,000 square meters and is located in the first foreign trade port of Shunde with superior geographical location and convenient land and water transportation. In Rongqi Port, the headquarters of all the joint inspection units in Shunde port are located around the bonded warehouse, and it is very convenient to go through the customs formalities of goods. Bonded warehouse using advanced computer management system for standardization of the management, in addition to provide the quality inspection for import and export goods, goods packaging, hierarchical classification, labeling, and brush the label code splicing, split, simple processing value-added services, also provides sea land transportation, loading and unloading, and storage, agent import and export trade, customs declaration, inspection declaration and other one-stop service.

      Editor Huang Jiangfan

      Excerpted from The Economic edition of Pearl River Business Daily, April 18, 2006