A few days ago, as the crane of the quay bridge of the Tianjin Port Container Terminal slowly fell, a container containing about 28.5 tons of sheep leg bones was loaded and unloaded steadily on the enterprise vehicle.
Under the supervision of Tianjin Xingang Customs, this batch of goods was directly transported to Tianjin Port’s first bonded cold storage with operating conditions—Tianjin Gangqiang Group’s public frozen product bonded warehouse for bonded storage through the “shipside direct pick-up” mode. Tianjin's first invoice for imported frozen products outside the special supervision area that adopts the "bonded + direct pick-up" mode of customs clearance.
According to reports, public bonded warehouses are established with the approval of the customs and are specially used for storing bonded goods or other goods that have not completed customs formalities. During the storage period of frozen goods, enterprises can suspend the payment of corresponding taxes, reduce the capital turnover cost of enterprises, better meet the needs of goods transfer and storage, and improve the ability to respond to changes in the market environment.
Tianjin Gangqiang Group's public frozen product bonded warehouse is the first bonded warehouse for frozen products outside the special supervision area officially put into use in Tianjin. The bonded warehouse covers an area of 2,430 square meters and can accommodate 40 refrigerated containers. The largest storage capacity of frozen aquatic products and meat is 2,000 tons.
Tianjin Port is one of the main import ports for frozen products in my country, and it is also an important channel for imported frozen products to enter the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Since the beginning of this year, Tianjin Customs has taken the opportunity of carrying out themed education activities to conduct in-depth visits to frozen product import enterprises in the jurisdiction, and learned that Tianjin Gangqiang Group has the intention to set up bonded warehouses to meet the needs of "enriching the storage function of frozen products and reducing the logistics cost of frozen products." , Improving the ability to regulate the seasonal market of frozen products” is an urgent need.
"After learning about our company's willingness to set up a bonded warehouse, the customs conducted several on-site surveys and guided us to help us plan the layout, improve application materials, and carry out software and hardware transformation. The construction of our bonded warehouse has high standards and high efficiency. It only took more than a month to be officially put into use." Liu Shuqiang, head of Tianjin Gangqiang Group, introduced.
The bonded warehouse is less than 2 kilometers away from the intelligent container terminal in Section C of Beijiang Port Area of Tianjin Port. Relying on the modern three-dimensional transportation network between Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, frozen products imported from Tianjin Port can be quickly integrated into the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei 1-hour fresh agricultural product logistics circle , to further protect the "meat plate" in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
At the same time, Tianjin Customs combines the trade mode of frozen products, innovates the supervision and customs clearance mode, and innovates the reform measures of "bonded + direct delivery" of frozen products by superimposing advanced declaration, direct pick-up by ship's side, bonded storage and other advantageous policies, and promotes the upgrade of frozen product trade.
"imported frozen products are affected by production costs, consumer markets, etc., and the price fluctuates greatly. Especially after the order is shipped to the country, it takes a long time, which may just catch up with the changes in the market. The 'bonded + direct delivery' model recommended by the customs is both It can help us pick up the boxes quickly to save logistics costs, and can also suspend tax payment to relieve financial pressure, which is what our company urgently needs." Li Tianchang, general manager of Tianjin Shengwei International Logistics Co., Ltd. said.
In the next step, Tianjin Xingang Customs will continue to deepen the reform of multiple customs clearance models by relying on the customs clearance site for imported frozen products with the largest business volume in Tianjin Port, serve the construction of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cold chain industry cluster, and promote the cold chain industry in Tianjin from "channel economy" to " Industrial economy" transformation and upgrading.
