The Three Gorges Bonded Logistics Center is carrying out the loading of equipment for exiting by using front crane. (Correspondent and Photographer: Yang Qing)

　　On October 7, the Three Gorges Bonded Logistics Center once again sent good news: at the end of September, with the wholesale of Bluetooth speakers destined for Mexico departing from the checkpoint, the total supervision value of the center from January to September reached 1.009 billion yuan, which completed the year-round target task just within three quarters.

　　Recently, Xinyang Texian from Dangyang handled the equipment import bonded business at the Three Gorges Bonded Logistics Center. The supervision value of this batch of goods reached 140 million yuan, which was the single-batch business with the largest supervision value in the center. Xinyang Texian was the first batch of customers which entered in the Three Gorges Bonded Logistics Center. In the past, the export goods of enterprises had to pass the customs declaration of Wuhan East-West Lake Comprehensive Insurance Zone. However, the cost of logistics transportation was reduced by more than 80% when the goods were exported from Yichang directly.

　　"Our company have entered the center and tasted the sweetness. This year, the expansion of the new factory requires the purchase of imported equipment, so our company becomes a returning customer again." Tang Xin, who is responsible for the equipment import of Xinyang Texian, said that from early September, more than 10 million US dollars of equipment imported from South Korea had been transported from the port to the bonded center in succession, and stored in bonded warehouses in batches. He introduced that, in the past, the imported equipment could not be cleared during the preparation of the tax exemption form. The equipment could be shipped back to the factory after paying a high margin, or could continue to be placed in the port “braving the wind and dew” after paying the ship company’s demurrage fee and the terminal’s storage charge. The Three Gorges Bonded Logistics Center provides turnover areas for enterprises. Before the Customs exemption forms and other customs clearance procedures are completed, the equipment can be stored in the bonded area for free, and then shipped back to the factory for assembly and commissioning according to the needs of enterprises. After handling the exempted form for the equipment, it can directly save nearly 5 million yuan of tariff for the enterprise, and reduce the comprehensive cost of time and operation.

　　It was understood that since its official operation on December 30, 2016, the center has been focusing on trade facilitation and cost reduction, and cooperating with customs and other regulatory authorities to build “six service platform” including foreign trade, logistics, customs clearance, factoring, finance and consulting for providing the overall solution of foreign trade logistics for the vast foreign trade enterprises, which attracted the entrance of 73 enterprises from Chongqing, Chengdu, Jingzhou, Jingmen and so on. This year, the center’s monthly supervision value exceeded 100 million, and the supervision value in September was nearly 200 million. (Correspondents: Tan Xueyu, Wang Wei, Zheng Kaiyue)