eWTP digital customs clearance cross-border import 9610 mode is launched, helping small and medium-sized cross-border enterprises reduce costs by 30%

On November 1, Alibaba's eWTP digital customs clearance platform piloted the first 9610 (cross-border e-commerce direct mail) import business at the Shenzhen Port. A shipment of health products from Singapore entered the Shenzhen Port through the Hong Kong 9610 direct mail model and completed customs clearance. This marks the full launch of this model at the Shenzhen Port. In the future, e-commerce platforms and import merchants can use the digital customs clearance 9610 channels to reduce logistics costs and improve customs clearance efficiency.

"Most of our products come from Hong Kong. In the past, Shenzhen Port did not support the 9610 model, so we had to ship them to Guangzhou for customs clearance," said the person in charge of Lac Livixi Tmall International Overseas Flagship Store, who applied for the first order. "Now Shenzhen Port supports digital customs clearance 9610, which shortens the customs clearance time a lot. We don't need to ship to Guangzhou, which also saves logistics costs."

Figure: Shenzhen Customs digital customs clearance line

The reporter learned that "9610" is the customs supervision code, which is a cross-border e-commerce direct mail model launched by the country to facilitate cross-border e-commerce transactions for small and medium-sized enterprises. It is a supplement to the 1210 model (bonded cross-border trade e-commerce model) and personal luggage express delivery model commonly used by customs in the past.

Compared with the 1210 model, the advantage of 9610 is that merchants do not need to store goods in bonded warehouses in large quantities, which reduces merchants' warehousing costs and cargo turnover pressure; and compared with the personal luggage express delivery model, the 9610 model is applicable to the national cross-border e-commerce comprehensive tax rate, and the product categories have also been expanded, basically covering all cross-border product categories including health foods, skin care and beauty products.

In addition, under the guidance and support of Shenzhen Customs, Alibaba's eWTP digital customs clearance platform assists the customs in opening up the declaration link. From the moment the consumer places an order, it actively collects original data such as orders, payments, and logistics, and automatically generates complete customs declaration data including the "four orders" of transaction orders, payment orders, logistics orders, and manifests. It realizes full-chain digital and convenient declaration from order generation to customs clearance, reduces merchants' compliance risks, and improves customs clearance efficiency.

After the eWTP digital customs clearance cross-border import 9610 model is launched, it can bring the convenience of optimized logistics routes to cross-border e-commerce companies that use Hong Kong as a logistics distribution center. By taking advantage of Shenzhen's geographical advantage of being adjacent to Hong Kong, it can reduce merchants' logistics costs by 30% and improve the customs clearance efficiency of the entire chain.

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