Starting December 1, tariffs on 187 imported goods will be reduced, and import tariffs on baby diapers and formula milk powder, which parents are most concerned about, are even reduced to zero. The smart toilet lid, which once triggered the sea-quake boom, The import tariffs also dropped from 16% to 10%.
What is the concept behind the reduction in the tariffs on imported goods and even the reduction of the prices of goods? Are not the choppers parties concerned about the market for sea scouring? See if there is a chance to sell them? Is it a new wave of sea tide wave approaching?
In this regard, insiders said tariff reductions to meet the growing consumer spending needs of consumers will reduce the burden, but for cross-border e-commerce and retail prices of imported goods 'did not imagine so big.'
After the tax cut part of the cost of imported goods to reduce
As of December 1 this year, the import tariffs on 187 commodities will be further reduced, and the import duties on baby diapers and diapers and infant formulas for formula milk will even be reduced to zero while the average tax rate will be reduced from 17.3% to 7.7%. In recent years, the strongest tax cuts, the Ministry of Finance and the General Administration of Customs jointly announced on November 24 this announcement.
Tariff, eye shadow, perfume and other cosmetics tariffs from 10% to 5%, coffee machines, smart toilet cover from 32% to 10%, mineral water by 20% Down to 10%.
According to media reports, for example, a baby diaper with an import value of 1,000 yuan is required. Customs duties and value added tax will be about 258 yuan before the tax reduction. After the tax reduction, only the value-added tax of 170 yuan will be required and the tax of 88 yuan will be paid less. A 1800 yuan imported smart toilet lid, you can save about 400 yuan tax.
According to the list, the partial hydrolysis formula of milk protein, deep hydrolysis of milk protein formula, amino acid formula, lactose-free formula special infant formula tariffs, from the current 20% to 0%. In addition, baby diapers, diapers and other diapers will be from the current 7.5% of the entrance tariffs, down to 0%. The reporter noted that the United States Si liquor tax rate down the largest, from 65% to 14%.
According to Cao Lei, director of China E-Commerce Research Center, "At present, our country's import tariffs, value-added tax, consumption tax and the like are still quite high, like many cosmetics, with tax rates as high as one-third to half." In addition to reducing tariffs on watches and foodstuffs, Driving domestic consumption is also good for the cross-border e-commerce platform. "
Personal channels to buy overseas goods 'unaffected'
A consumer who just had a friend bought a coat from the UK complained that "the tax rate has dropped since the 30% tax was paid." In response, a customs officer explained to reporters: 'The tariff adjustment is mainly Applicable to cross-border trade enterprises, individuals through the logistics company Amoy commodity belong to personal belongings, need ID clearance. 'Therefore, individuals through the logistics company to buy overseas merchandise is not affected by this adjustment.
At present, overseas shopping is mainly purchased in four ways: purchasing through purchasing buyers, purchasing through cross-border import platforms, purchasing general trade imports online through supermarkets, and directly going abroad to purchase products.
China E-commerce Research Center analyst Yu Si-min said the tariff cut mainly affect the price of the middle two ways. 'The impact on cross-border e-commerce is positive, the purchasing, it also lost the price advantage, more Of consumers buy products through cross-border e-commerce. '
The independent cross-border electricity commercial docks said tariffs are actually lower in imports and cross-border businesses, compared with other types of trade, where higher general trade prices are due to the higher costs of business tax, commercial real estate tax and artificial storefronts.
However, there are also voices in the industry pointing out that the effect of the tariff reduction on cross-border e-commerce should be analyzed in terms of the overlap between the tariff-adjusted goods and those sold by e-commerce companies. Since there is a discount on the imported goods per se, After the tariff reduction as a whole, it may not be good for cross-border e-commerce.
Fu Chenghua full supply chain CTO believes that the tariff reduction or even cancel, will be conducive to foreign goods imported into the country through normal channels.Of course, the factors that affect the price in addition to tariffs and value added tax, but will result in more people in the price difference is not the case Under the normal choice of platform.At present, the domestic demand for imported goods mainly concentrated in the first-tier cities such as the north of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen and so on, consumer demand in the second and third tier cities accounted for three to four into.With the tariff reduction of some products, will stimulate two three four The consumption demand of the city in the line will further promote the overall development of the domestic cross-border e-commerce industry.
Tariffs in the retail price of goods is not large
The aforementioned customs staff told reporters that the retail price of imported goods and the declaration of the larger gap to a retail price of 500 yuan of imported cosmetics, for example, the declaration price may only tens of dollars.Then multiplied by the original 10% tariff Tax rate, the actual tax collection is only about 3 yuan, according to the new policy, lipstick, eye shadow, perfume and other cosmetics tariffs from 10% to 5%, it saved about 1.5 yuan, but the retail price is actually very small.
He pointed out that the declaration price is based on the CIF including the cost of goods, freight and insurance. Therefore, the tariff adjustment has little effect on the terminal price, and the pricing power of the final retail price is still on the imported commodity company.
The official responsible for the Ministry of Finance said sampling showed that the actual amount of tariffs was only 0.5% to 7% of the retail price of commodities, which had a direct effect on reducing price differences between domestic and overseas merchandise. The tariff reduction provided favorable conditions for expanding the import of consumer goods. However, Changes in the volume of imports of goods and domestic prices ultimately to the market decision.
Ocean Terminal told reporters that, in fact, tariffs account for a relatively low proportion of the entire cross-border business. The higher domestic prices are in the sales tax, approach to storefronts and so on. In addition, it reflects that end-users can perceive that the cycle may be relatively long .
It is understood that the customs tax cuts, consumers really enjoy the price changes, may be to 2018 early.
'Human flesh purchasing' and other sea Amoy will be reduced
According to the research report of the China Electronic Commerce Research Center, the volume of cross-border e-commerce transactions reached 1.2 trillion yuan in 2016, up 900 billion yuan by 2015, up 33.3% from the same period of last year and is expected to reach 1.8543 trillion yuan by 2017. Cross-border Online shopping users love to buy beauty care, mother and child, shoes and apparel, food, jewelry bags, including beauty care and mother and child products, the largest number of orders.
'By lowering taxes, making the prices of commodities imported through general trade advantageous will reduce the direct purchase of fish or meat from abroad, and this will enable the transaction to be consumed domestically, taxed domestically, data domestically, and quality domestically Can be more controlled, to a certain extent, ease the domestic outflow of consumption, such as the previous overseas purchasing, etc., was exposed various types of counterfeit goods, it is difficult to regulate.But through the import of goods cross-border e-commerce channel , From the declaration, quality inspection, warehousing, etc. are more secure, rest assured. "China E-commerce Research Center, said Cao Lei.
Cao Lei believes that cross-border e-commerce, as a complement to the general import trade, has some advantages in terms of efficiency and price. In terms of efficiency, cross-border e-commerce avoids the more complex and lengthy registration approval mechanism. Therefore, for some short life cycles, Of the import of goods has great advantages; in terms of price, cross-border electricity to enjoy within the limits of zero tariffs, value-added tax and consumption tax to enjoy the advantage of 7 fold, this will not be because of the tariff reduction of some goods to change.
On November 29, Mr. Qi, one of the steel products foreign traders, told reporters: 'This tax reduction does not cover our business areas, mainly the general trade commodities, which have a big impact on milk powder, diapers and other commodities.' 'November 30 The purchase of overseas milk powder by an e-commerce platform indicated to the Beijing News reporters that 'the milk powder purchased has always been a direct tax package, so the tax reduction will have little effect on our prices.'
In response, Cao Lei said: 'This tax reduction does not have a direct impact on the tax package of direct mail, but it will cause the price of related products of the offline importers to go down, which will have an indirect impact on the tax package of direct mail.'
background
Import tariffs on consumer goods 'four consecutive drops'
Starting from December 1, the scope of 'tax reduction' involves a total of 187 8-digit tax numbers covering various types of food, health products, medicines, daily chemicals, clothes and hats, household equipment, culture and entertainment, consumer goods.
Since 2015, China has reduced the import tariffs on consumer products three times, namely in June 2015, January 2016 and January 2017. The products with lower tariffs are mainly those with higher willingness to buy abroad and higher tariff rates High consumer goods.
Ministry of Finance official said: 'From the field of consumer goods, consumer demand in China continued to grow, the consumer structure to accelerate the upgrade, but the domestic supply capacity and level is still difficult to adapt to the needs of consumer upgrades. , Imports continue to expand. 'The official said the tax cuts will also be conducive to import products compete with domestic products, and guide the transformation and upgrading of China's supply system.
Tang Xin, an independent industry analyst, said that the tariff cut was actually driven by many factors, including the top-level design. For example, the 16th meeting of the Central Financial Leading Group proposed that "research should reduce tariffs on some consumer goods and encourage imports of distinctive and advantageous products." Secondly, there are also policies to strengthen the influence of the foreign economy and to co-operate with the Belt and Road Initiative.