PILOT STUDY ON CROSS BORDER E-COMMERCE TRADE STATISTICS OF CHINA - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

PILOT STUDY ON CROSS BORDER E-COMMERCE TRADE STATISTICS OF CHINA LI QIAN, STATISTICS&ANALYSIS DEPARTMENT, GACC REGIONAL WORKSHOP “INTERNATIONAL TRADE STATISTICS: EDGE OF TOMORROW” 2019-11-15, NUR-SULTAN, REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

Inclusive and Prudent Supervision Business Customs • More small parcels to handle • More choices and logistical convenience for consumers • Low or unclear value leading to evasion of duties/VAT • More market potentials • Inadequate info declared for • Perhaps lower costs and risk analysis cheaper prices • There’s even more for • More jobs created Customs trade statistics

It’s really challenging: criteria for inclusion/exclusion, sources, necessary data items…….

Outline 1 Identification of CBEC from Customs Records 2 Going beyond the Customs Records ： Survey 3 Preliminary Findings 4 Challenges and Potentials

CBEC Clearance System launched

Customs Regime Code “1210” By Customs Specific Customs Regime Code since 2014 Announcement (no.2014-57) B2C B2C B2B2C B2B2C import export import export 9610 9610 1210/1239 1210 Customs Regime Code Customs Regime Code “9610” “1239” By Customs By Customs Announcement Announcement (no.2014-12) (no.2016-75)

1210 1239 9610 1210 B2B B2B Customs Border B2C B2C 1210 1239 1210 B2C B2C B2B Trade Statistics (General Trade System) Border Separate Statistics Bonded Warehouses/zones

Clearance System for normal goods B2B2C (1210) IM Stats CBEC Clearance System B2C By aggregation (9610) CBEC Stats from Customs Clearance System for normal goods B2C Records consolidation filing (9610) CBEC Clearance System B2C EX Stats By aggregation (9610) CBEC Clearance System B2B2C By aggregation (1210)

Comparison of the Percentage change between CBEC and Total Trade YEAR EAR CBEC% CB C% Total Trade% de% - 2014 2.3 +818.0 2015 -7.0 +38.7 2016 -0.9 +80.6 +14.3 2017 +49.3 +9.7 2018

Trend of the Share of CBEC in Total Trade(%) 0,5 0,45 0,4 0,35 0,3 0,25 0,2 0,15 0,1 0,05 0 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Has every flow of CBEC goods been identified?

Online E platform vendor Shipped from Abroad Vendor in E-commerce platform selling the goods shipped from abroad

Criteria Cross- On-line Physical of border products order movement CBEC

• Pilot survey introduced annually • 42 e-platforms responded 2017 • Pilot survey continued annually • 48 e-platforms responded • Incorporate information of interviews and other 2018 open sources • Pilot survey continued biannually • Stakeholders like logistics providers and 2019 vendors involved in addition to platforms

Data collected Data collected For Estimation For Cross-Check E commerce Platforms self- Service operated providers Platforms Vendors Third-party

CBEC Trade data By business mode By channels of crossing border By main trading partners By main product groups

Supportive information from business interviews Financial reports of overseas platforms Survey results Customs records from CBEC clearance systems Postal and express delivery information

For ordinary Customs Clearance systems goods For CBEC goods For express deliveries For postal parcels

CBEC parcels from postal/express channels as Total personnel effects in terms CBEC of customs control trade

Imports Exports

Total Total CBEC CBEC trade trade

Thank you for your attention! liqian@mail.customs.gov.cn +86-10-65195640