According to the data released by Guangdong Branch of General Administration of Customs on January 28th, in 2022, the import and export of special customs supervision areas in Guangdong Province was 1.14 trillion yuan, up 13.2% year-on-year, accounting for 13.8% of the total import and export value of Guangdong Province in the same period. Among them, exports were 557.97 billion yuan, up 14.1% year-on-year; Imports reached 585.357 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.4%. At present, there are 16 special customs supervision areas in Guangdong, including 11 comprehensive bonded areas.
Huang Zuhuo, director of the Free Trade Zone and Special Regional Development Division of Guangdong Branch of the General Administration of Customs, said that the current comprehensive bonded zone business has expanded from bonded processing and bonded logistics to financial leasing, inspection and maintenance, sales services, etc., attracting a large number of high-tech enterprises with high added value and strong pulling force, and the endogenous motivation for diversified development and innovative development in the region has been continuously enhanced.
The comprehensive insurance business in the province is relatively mature. In 2022, the import and export of bonded logistics in the region exceeded 500 billion yuan. At present, Nansha has formed international distribution business industrial clusters such as global excellent products, plastic granules, automobiles, fine wine and food, biomedicine, cross-border e-commerce hub base and bonded bulk cargo consolidation base; Huangpu Comprehensive Insurance Zone has formed a non-ferrous metal distribution center. In 2022, the import and export value of non-ferrous metals was 8.928 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17%.
The financial leasing business is also a highlight of the comprehensive insurance zone. Enterprises registered in the comprehensive bonded area can engage in financing leasing business of large-scale equipment such as imported aircraft, ships and offshore engineering structures. Guangzhou Baiyun Airport Comprehensive Insurance Zone is the first comprehensive insurance zone in the province to carry out the supervision of aircraft financial leasing. In 2022, with the support of Guangzhou Customs, the zone applied "entrusted supervision in different places", saving enterprises 200,000 yuan per trip, and the aircraft was compressed to one hour from landing to inspection and release.
Bonded maintenance mode not only further broadens the maintenance business scope of enterprises, but also enables enterprises to enjoy a number of simplified import and export processes and preferential tax policies, with obvious cost-saving advantages. Among them, Shenzhen Futian Free Trade Zone makes full use of the advantages of direct docking with Hong Kong to attract the maintenance business of brands such as Apple, ZTE and Lenovo.
This year, Zhuhai Gaolan Port Comprehensive Insurance Zone and Zhanjiang Comprehensive Insurance Zone are expected to be closed for acceptance. Zhuhai Gaolan Port Comprehensive Insurance Zone has signed 13 projects, and Gongbei Customs has issued more than 10 reform measures to support the development of high-tech, high-value-added projects and emerging formats such as biomedicine, semiconductor chips and equipment manufacturing; Nine projects have entered Zhanjiang Comprehensive Insurance Zone, striving to build a bonded processing center for bulk commodities.