Facilitate trade facilitation and shorten customs clearance time

        November 7th learned from the General Administration of customs, the first 3 quarters, the import customs clearance time was 26.3 hours, 7.1 hours shorter than the 2013, export customs clearance time was 2.6 hours, 0.4 hours shorter than the 2013, customs clearance time for customs declaration by enterprises to declare to release documents (or in advance release) time, including customs operation time and enterprise tax presentation time.  
        an important pillar of APEC is to facilitate trade facilitation. China Customs takes the responsibility of good service and promotion of trade facilitation, and constantly improves customs clearance system, improves customs clearance efficiency and serves import and export enterprises through reform and innovation.  
        customs this year to promote the reform of paperless customs clearance, customs clearance regional integration; innovation China customs supervision services (Shanghai) free trade test area, improve the clearance of cross-border trade e-commerce business processes; promote the port departments of information exchange, mutual recognition, mutual supervision and law enforcement, in cooperation with the inspection and quarantine departments carry out “ one declaration, one inspection and one release of ” and the immigration channel “ a two screen ” inspection mode, on-line operation of the Shanghai international trade single window “ ” and achieved remarkable results.  
        in the first 3 quarters, the national customs paperless declaration form 41 million 963 thousand, accounting for 79.9% of the total amount of customs declaration. A total of 30.4 enterprises participated in paperless customs clearance, accounting for 86.3% of the total import and export enterprises in the same period, 33 percentage points higher than the first half of the year. Statistics show that the first 3 quarters, the paperless declaration of import customs clearance time was 17 hours, export customs clearance time was 1.9 hours, compared with all the customs clearance time low for 9.3 hours and 0.7 hours,  
        from September 22nd to October 21st, received a total of about 4 million 700 thousand votes through the declaration of customs clearance regional integration platform in Beijing Tianjin Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong area, more than 80% of the national total declarations, to achieve the “ as a customs clearance ”.