I. Highlights

1. Highlighting work priorities for national and municipal trade facilitation reform tasks. In the draft process, the Plan has combined national and municipal tasks for facilitating trade, specifically the national campaign for cross-border trade facilitation, the task list of 2.0 Plan of Demonstration Zone (Work Plan of Beijing for Deepening Development of the Integrated National Demonstration Zone for Opening up the Services Sector), and the 2024 Beijing Overall Optimization of the Business Environment and Creation of "Beijing Service" Work Plan to prioritize key tasks.

2. Focusing on enterprise concerns and boosting trade facilitation. The Plan aims to promote efforts including treating remanufactured products as new products when they are imported, allowing a single application for general licenses for specific dual-use items to be exported in multiple batches within a year, extending customs advance rulings, exploring remote supervision, and continuously shortening the processing time for import food quarantine approval licenses.

3. Promoting the integrated development of trade in goods, trade in services and digital trade. This involves measures across three dimensions. For trade in goods, there are facilitation measures. For trade in services, innovative efforts include optimization of the mechanism for promoting national service export bases, the addition of a service trade section to the international trade "single window", and the continued opening up of the service industry market. For digital trade, innovative initiatives focus on promoting the development of new technical standards and piloting statistical measurements in specific regions.

II. Main Content

1. Establishing and improving the working mechanisms for trade facilitation. A joint meeting mechanism will be established to facilitate trade and oversight, and to optimize the mechanism for promoting the building of national service export bases.

2. Enhancing port service capacities. Efforts will include the improvement of port facilities, the expansion of services at the international trade "single window", the standardization of port services and charges, and the enhancement of international competitiveness of the two aviation hubs.

3. Promoting the reform of trade regulation. Efforts will include piloting the treatment of certain remanufactured products as new ones for regulatory purposes when they are imported, allowing a single application for general licenses for specific dual-use items to be exported in multiple batches within a year, permitting qualified enterprises to import cell and gene therapy products and urgently needed drugs following a safety risk assessment, optimizing oversight measures for certain equipment and materials requiring statutory inspections, allowing eligible inbound exhibits (excluding drugs) of the China International Fair for Trade in Services to be sold as cross-border e-commerce bonded retail import, extending the validity of customs advance rulings, improving customs clearance efficiency for fresh agricultural products, exploring the use of remote supervision, strengthening support for the innovative development of high-tech enterprises, implementing national and free trade zone versions of the negative list for cross-border trade in services, and improving the system for security assessment of outbound data transfer.

4. The Plan aims to cultivate new drivers for industrial development. Efforts will include the continued perfecting of the demonstration zone for creative promotion of import trade within the Beijing Capital International Airport Economic Zone, exploration of pilot initiatives in the comprehensive bonded area, the construction of bonded supervision facilities, improved support and service of cross-border e-commerce, expansion of the scale of "upgraded bonded + consumption" business, support for pilot programs for private enterprises to export low-orbit satellites, the facilitation of information sharing among processing trade businesses, and the promotion of new technical standards for digital trade.

5. The Plan aims to improve the liberalization and facilitation of trade. This requires further optimizing quarantine approval, strengthening the cultivation of Authorized Economic Operators (AEOs) and providing them with more trade facilitation policies, optimizing financial services for cross-border trade, and piloting statistical measurement methods for digital trade in specific regions.

6. The Plan advocates better coordination in trade facilitation across the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region. This requires improving the mechanism of cooperation for ports in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, coordination of customs supervision in the three regions, and promoting the sharing of customs clearance logistics information between ports in the three regions.

III. Effective Date

The Plan will take effect from the date of its issuance.