Eight Measures of Fuzhou Customs for Promoting
Construction and Development of
Fuzhou Free Trade Zone

In order to carry out the customs wortk policies of "give priority to promoting", further improve the investment trade environment of Fuzhou Free Trade Zone, make full use of the policy and function superiority of free trade Zone, promote local economy to develop more quickly, we specially formulate follow eight measures:

1. Continue to carry out and ascertain the taxation preferential policies of free trade Zone, guide enterprises to make well and full use of them. In the condition of the State cancel various tax reduction and exemption policies progressively, continue to give tax exemption policies progressively, continue to give tax exemption to the import machinery equipment and other capital building material needed for constructing the infrastructural installations in free trade Zone; to give tax exemption to the building material, production and administration device, fuel for production use, matesial needed for constructing proution workshop.storage facilities which the enterprises import for self-use. To the goods import and export between free trade zone and outside the boundary of the country, except to carry out passive quato to administrate commodities, do not carry out import and export quato, license administration.

2. In order to make full use of free trade storage and international transference function of free trade Zone, convenience the state-run foreign trade, industrial trade enterprises and large-scale, middle-scale state-run productive enterprises which have foreign trade business in Fuzhou area to utilize policies of free trade Zone to develop storage and entrepot trade business, allow enterprises with import and expot business rights which have register record in Fuzhou customs to directly handle formalities of international trade goods import into the Zone for storage and transit to exit in customs of free trade Zone.

3. According to international practice to simply customs clearance formalities of goods enter and move out of the free trade zone, carry out the combining declaration institution of put on secord and apply to customs system , goods entering and moving out between free trade zone and out side the boundary of the country, consignee and consignor and the agents are responsible for reporting to customs of free trade Zone for putting on record; enterprises with conditions carry out EDI net customs entry to raise cutoms clearance efficiency of passing customs and reduce enterprises managment cost.

4. With preferential policies and covenient formalities to support and encourage enterprises to develop processing trade in the Zone. For the enterprises to purchase raw material , spare parts into the Zone from outside the Zone , through substantive processing , the value of the products add more than twenty percent, the products enjoy export treatment of free trade Zone when exported; to the products for some processing working procedure. which is not suitable to process in the Zone or the present processing conditions are not qualified for that, they are allowed to sent out for processing approved by customs, for the processing enterprises which have factory building, workshop in the Zone, but for some State mandatory factor limit such as enviroment protection, need to set up branch outside the zone, are allowed to enjoy treatment of preferential policies of free trade Zone approved by customs.

5. Support and encourage Fuzhou Free Trade Zone develop trading to Taiwan, make full use of the surpirioty of Fujian to Taiwan, positively great both banks direct nevigation. For boats and ships approved to engage in free trade zone trading goods transportation to Taiwan and stack fields specially use for goods of Taiwan in the Zone, give the conveniece of special business done specially in supervision and administrtion; to storage goods of free trade zone through other ports in customs area to transit to Taiwan, enjoy the preference and convenience of entrepot trade of free trade zone.

6. Support and encourage to set up free trade productive material market or import and export commodities exhibition trade center in free trade zone, to connect international and domestic markets, for providing domestic and foreign travelling trade the newest information of commodities of China and the world, and providing the fastest trading service. To those for condition limit in the zone or other special condition, after approving , may allow exhibiting commodities in the Zone temporarily moved out to exhibit in place which accords with customs supervising condition.

7. In order to make full use of the link and move superiority of ports and Zone, to convenience the container goods enter Zone and move out, allow to set up international container goods distribution station in free trade Zone, all the container goods of free trade Zone unloaded from Fuzhou new port area may be transported to container stack fields using special transpotation vehicles and through assigned route, to speed up customs clearance of import and export goods between Zone and ports.

8. Positively support and facilitate development and checking and acceptance of the second phase of the project of Fuzhou Free Trade Zone, serioulsy study and put forward to the simplifying new pattern of customs clearance after putting ports into free trade Zone, positively take part in the work of running experimental unit of the port zone of Fuzhou Free Trade Zone which will be with port installations and port function, to give a contribution for Fuzhou Free Trade Zone to really become an international entreport trade and goods transference collecting and distributing center.


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Fuzhou Free Trade Zone Administration Committee,P.R. of China
E-mail:mwwlzx@public.fz.fj.cn
Contact Person: Wang Hong