China's Fuzhou Customs Launched Pilot Project on Customs Clearance by Classification of Marine Imports

As of July 28, 2010, Fuzhou Customs of China will launch a pilot project at the subordinate Mawei Customs on customs clearance by classification of marine imports.

It is estimated that Fuzhou port's daily release rate of imports will be raised by over 80%, and the average efficiency of customs clearance will be raised by over 60%.

As learned, the customs clearance by classification will take enterprise law-abiding management as the core, integrate all kinds of risk factors such as enterprise types, commodity classification, prices, licenses, trading countries, routes, and logistics information, and implement the classification of imports and exports by the risk level.

Like customs clearance of export classification, the import classification also sets up three modes of differentiation customs clearance operation, including low risk quick release, low risk document verification, and high risk key verification.

As for low-risk goods not involved with licenses or duties, they will be automatically released after the electronic verification done by the computer system. Therein, AA enterprises may also apply to speedy customs clearance measures like "release with customs security" and "paperless customs clearance, submitting documents afterwards".