As the world’s largest trading entity, my country is actively expanding imports, reflecting our position of supporting multilateral trade and developing free trade, creating new demand and injecting new impetus for world economic growth, and promoting the construction of an open world economy. The original intention of cross-border e-commerce retail imports is not to replace general trade imports, but to enhance consumers’ shopping experience, drive consumption diversification, promote consumption upgrades internally, and guide overseas consumption backflow. In contrast, the biggest advantage of cross-border e-commerce imports is not tax incentives, but short access time, convenient customs clearance, and high circulation efficiency. It has a wide impact on domestic e-commerce and consumer goods trade imports, squeezing the living space of some traditional small and medium-sized importers.
Domestic consumers are becoming more rational in their consumption of cross-border goods. Import e-commerce plays the logistics experience card and comprehensively deploys overseas warehouses, bonded warehouses and various order fulfillment methods, which makes the gross profit of goods lower and brings more cost pressure to logistics channels. Import logistics is mainly distinguished by customs clearance methods, and each link is strung into a route. For example, what kind of product comes from which country, through what kind of transportation and storage methods, enters which domestic port, and then goes through what kind of customs clearance method, and finally arrives in the hands of consumers in China with what kind of express delivery.
Supporting logistics include overseas pickup, overseas warehousing, export customs declaration, booking, import customs clearance, IT support, transshipment, multimodal transport and delivery services. Domestic distribution and international transportation are already very mature, and international transportation is not congested.