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The China (Beijing) International Trade Single Window, a project led by the Beijing Municipal People's Government Port Office and jointly hosted by 10 related departments, was revealed on Nov 17 in Beijing.
The purpose of the single window is to offer one-stop customs clearance.
Yan Ligang, director of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Commerce presided over the launching ceremony. Han Jian, vice director of the National Port Office, Xu Zhijun, deputy secretary of the Beijing municipal government, and Xue Haitao, vice director of the Beijing Municipal Port Office attended and addressed the gathering.
The single window’s footprint spans the six service fields of import-export declarations, transport declarations, qualifications, financing logistics, government and enterprise family matters and service inquiries. Twenty-one basic service projects and customs clearance of import and export logistics are covered as well.
Additional services such as passenger support and airline ground agent accreditation are deployed as well.
The e-port, the foundation of the single window, aims to establish a common unrestricted market between enterprises and e-port interconnection for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area. It is expected that clearance time will be reduced accordingly.
Xue said, “Enterprises could save a minimum of 200,000 yuan ($29,000) and five working-hours per declaration, and decrease in the error rate is estimated to be 90 percent after the implement of the single window.”
“As a pilot unit, more than 1,000 downstream suppliers and 29 factories in North China experienced the e-port service and the error rate was reduced to 0.003% in early March of this year. Besides, we have saved over 50 million yuan ($ 7 million) in clearance costs this year,” said Li Qiang, manager of the Foxconn national supply chain operation center.
In addition to Beijing enterprises, foreign trade enterprises from Jiangsu and Henan provinces have also enjoyed access to the single window service.
