On September 11, Han Miao, the director of the foreign trade department of Zigui Qugu Food Co., Ltd, received a massage which reads"The inspection certificate of the imported goods you applied for has been issued..." from the Yichang Customs General Business Hall, throughan efficient online platformnewly developed bythe General Administration of Customs. The messagemeans that the 280 tons of white sugar imported by the company from South Korea has passed the inspection and quarantineand will be let pass the customs.

　　The online platform isanother innovationmadeby the customs to further deepen itsreform tostreamline administration and upgrade its services forthe facilitation of import and export trade. In the past, enterpriseshad to obtain anInspection Certificateof Imported Goodsin paper through the customs service window after theirgoods had passed the inspection and quarantine. But now, what a consignee of imported goods has to do in making animport declarationis to type inhis or her mobile phone number underthe check-related information columnon the platform,then s/he will receive aninquiry code of the certificate after their goods has passed the inspection, and can make an inquiryand download the certificatedirectly through the single window of international tradeon the platform. (Reporter: Yang Jing; correspondent: Lei Lihua)