Bonded logistics centers include two types: Type A and Type B.
Type A bonded logistics centers refer to customs-supervised places that are approved by the customs and operated by domestic corporate legal persons and specialize in bonded warehousing and logistics business. Type B bonded logistics centers refer to customs-centralized places that are approved by the customs and operated by a domestic corporate legal person and where multiple enterprises enter and engage in bonded warehousing and logistics business.
The functions of bonded logistics centers include bonded warehousing, re-export trade, tax refunds for entering the park, factory transfer services, international (inter-regional) distribution, international (inter-regional) procurement services, container services, simple processing and value-added services, and logistics information processing.
The bonded logistics center implements the “domestic and outside the customs” policy. The center has a relatively loose bonded policy. The goods in the park are deemed to be exported outside the customs, which plays the role of bonded warehousing. When the goods enter the logistics center, they need to go through the export customs declaration procedures. The enterprise completes the tax refund procedures in accordance with the relevant tax management measures of the State Administration of Taxation, and handles the collection and payment procedures in accordance with the relevant foreign exchange management measures of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange. In the bonded logistics center, re-export traders take advantage of price differences to gain profits from both buyers and sellers. They are not only intermediaries but also cargo owners.
The bonded logistics center is also conducive to all enterprises to handle factory transfer business. Enterprises that import by manual customs declaration need to transfer their goods between upstream and downstream enterprises. However, due to various reasons such as enterprise management, it is difficult for the relevant links to meet the requirements of customs reconciliation book management. If the enterprise transports its goods to the bonded logistics center first and then enters the country, it will become relatively easy to transfer them to downstream enterprises. From the perspective of international logistics and distribution, the bonded logistics center can use the special policies granted by the customs to carry out the sorting, allocation, distribution, and delivery of imported bonded goods, or distribute them to domestic and foreign countries after value-added processing in neighboring ports, and then gradually develop into an international (inter-regional) logistics and distribution center.
At the same time, the center can also establish a global procurement system by introducing cross-border e-commerce buyers, organize the procurement of goods for export in surrounding areas, rely on the manufacturing capabilities of core cities and the corresponding global logistics supply chain, promote commodity exports, and open up a green channel for manufacturing products to enter the world market. In order to provide services to enterprises in the park, container services are also provided in the park, including temporary yards and deconsolidation services. The bonded logistics center can provide simple processing and value-added services for circulation, including grading and classification, sorting, packaging, measurement, combination packaging, filming, labeling, packaging change, assembly and other simple auxiliary operations.
Third-party logistics businesses are also stationed in the bonded logistics center to provide customers with personalized value-added services, and cooperate with the business platform, information platform and policy platform provided by related projects to develop supporting solutions for the logistics needs of local enterprises.
Compared with the direct mail model, the bonded import model takes advantage of the policy advantages of special customs supervision areas such as bonded port areas, and adopts the method of “entering the area in batches, and B2C mail and express delivery paying the postal tax to leave the area”. After the goods are imported, they are stored in the customs supervision place. After the consumer places an order, they are directly sent from the warehouse to the individual, which not only reduces the cost of importing goods for merchants, but also shortens the time from ordering to receiving the goods for consumers.