A very special consignment of casual shoes worth $78,000 was stored on Feb 10 in a warehouse in the Xiangyu Bonded Zone, under the supervision of Dongdu Customs, at the Xiamen Area of China (Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone – located in Xiamen city, in East China's Fujian province.
These goods are special because they carry China's import and export customs supervision code 1210 and they will be exported to Southeast Asia from Xiamen Port and sold on e-commerce platforms such as Shopee and Lazada.
Customs officers check the goods in a warehouse in Xiamen's Xiangyu Bonded Zone. [Photo/WeChat ID: gh_6233022b6145]
The consignment marked the first cross-border e-commerce retail business undertaken by the Xiamen FTZ and Xiamen Customs using the 1210 code. The declaration of the shoes also represented the city's official implementation of a new retail model for exports to be stored in overseas warehouses.
According to a local e-commerce enterprise, compared with the existing customs supervision modes with the codes of 9610, 9710 and 9810, the 1210 code allows mixed loading of general trade goods and goods for the processing trade.
Goods can be stored in batches and sold in parcels, effectively reducing inventory risk and enhancing the competitiveness of cross-border e-commerce exports in terms of logistics costs and timeliness.
Zhuang Xiling, an official with Dongdu Customs, said that so far two enterprises in the Xiangyu Bonded Zone had completed the filing work for the customs supervision 1210 mode.