Shanghai has built the world's largest local international trade single window with the largest data processing capacity, a 10-year effort
As an important achievement of the institutional innovation of the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone, the Shanghai International Trade Single Window has become the local international trade single window with the largest data processing volume in the world since it was officially launched on June 18, 2014. The reporter learned from the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce on June 18 that over the past 10 years, the functions of the Shanghai International Trade Single Window have gradually evolved from the initial 6 functional modules to 16 major functional sections of "foreign trade finance", "customs clearance logistics" and "regulatory services", 66 special applications, and docking with 22 departments, achieving full coverage of port customs clearance supervision links, promoting the full inclusion of international trade-related business handling, supporting more than 1/4 of the country's import and export trade volume, and serving more than 600,000 enterprises.
In addition, the construction of various specialized applications of the Shanghai International Trade Single Window helps companies save time and labor costs for various declaration operations, which can reach more than 2 billion yuan each year, and has become the digital foundation for Shanghai to promote the optimization of the port business environment.
In October 2023, the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, together with relevant port departments, issued the "China International Trade "Single Window" Intelligent Innovation Action Plan", focusing on building digital and intelligent service capabilities with international advanced levels, and building a new generation of intelligent "single window". Zhang Jie, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, said that in the next step, the Shanghai International Trade Single Window will continue to strengthen the cooperation and co-construction of "single windows" with brother provinces and cities such as the Yangtze River Delta and the Yangtze River Economic Belt; actively promote the docking with the rules of global advanced trade digital platforms, and in accordance with the new requirements and tasks such as DEPA, CPTPP and other international high-standard economic and trade rules, the overall plan for high-level institutional opening of the free trade pilot zone, and the Silk Road e-commerce cooperation pilot zone, further build a data exchange system and promote the construction of the "single window" international trade document exchange hub; on the basis of deepening cooperation with Singapore, actively implement the China-Singapore "one-time entry, simultaneous declaration" project pilot; empower the shipping trade ecosystem, cultivate a group of digital service providers in the shipping trade field, and promote the high-quality development of cross-border trade.
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