General Administration of Customs: The New Mode of Release Before Inspection Will Be Implemented For Crude Oil Import from Next Month

Reporters learned from the General Administration of Customs, since October 1, the customs on the import of crude oil inspection and supervision of a major adjustment, the Release Before Inspection. This new regulatory model will further optimize the business environment at ports, greatly reduce the clearance time and cost of crude oil imports, and enhance trade facilitation.

The main contents of this adjustment are as follows: the customs currently conducts batch sampling inspection on imported crude oil, and the release after conformity assessment is adjusted to Release Before Inspection. "Release in advance" means that after the imported crude oil meets the requirements of the customs after on-site information verification and sample preparation, the enterprise can carry out unloading and transshipment. "Post-inspection" means laboratory testing and conformity assessment of imported crude oil.

Hong Liangming, Deputy chief of material Control Division of Yangshan Customs, Shanghai Customs: According to the new supervision mode of imported crude oil, after we sample imported crude oil, the imported crude oil ships can handle the withdrawal procedures without waiting for the crude oil inspection results at the port. It is equivalent to companies transporting crude oil and laboratory testing from "series" to "parallel".

Huang Wei, general manager of NINGBO China Oil And Fuel Oil Terminal Co., LTD. : The Release Before Inspection policy can save 5 hours of demurrage time, which is equivalent to saving 20,000 DOLLARS demurrage fee for shivers. In addition, the policy can improve the ship turnover efficiency for port enterprises and shipping companies.

The new policy also requires companies to sell and use imported crude oil that passes customs inspection and is certified by the customs. In addition, if major problems such as safety, health, environmental protection and trade fraud are found in the inspection and supervision, the customs will handle them according to law and adjust the inspection and supervision methods in due time.

Commissioner of customs commodity inspection department inspection two gui-hua wang: the imported crude oil on the implementation of Release Before Inspection is the General Administration of Customs continuously optimize commodity inspection regulation mode, shorten the customs clearance time, stable refining enterprise production raw material supply chain, and promote the steady growth of foreign trade to take another important step, will further optimize the environment of the port business, enhance the level of trade facilitation.

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