Cross Border Electricity Providers: Import Costs Increase Greatly Shuffle Or Will Arrive Ahead Of Schedule.

For most consumers, buying cheap foreign goods has always been one of the important reasons for choosing cross-border electricity providers.

However, as tariffs on goods imported through general trade have declined, cross border e-commerce providers who are paying postal tax have gradually lost their price advantage. Will consumers also love "cross-border electricity providers"?

After such a large tariff reduction, is there any room for cross-border electricity supplier? The advantage of cross-border electricity providers is more convenient for commodity access and commodity inspection, but not all cross-border electricity suppliers have absolute price advantages over general trade.

The reporter was informed that following the tariff reduction of some imported products in June 2015, the government further expanded the scope of import tax reduction in early January 2016 and lowered the provisional tariff rate of 16 consumer goods, including luggage, clothing, scarves, stalls, vacuum thermos cups and sunglasses.

After tax reduction, the provisional import tariff of luggage and wool suit suits is 10%.

The provisional import tax rate for scarves and blankets is 8%, the provisional import tariff of vacuum thermos cups is 12%, and sunglasses are 6%.

Most categories fall by more than 50%.

Lin Qinghua, the founder of the star wardrobe, pointed out to reporters that tariffs are only a small part of the general trade tax, and that only the tariff is reduced, the overall tax and fee impact is not so great.

According to the reporter's understanding, in the general import trade tax, apart from customs duties, businesses still need to pay value-added tax. When a commodity is priced at A yuan overseas and the domestic price is B yuan, its general trade tax should be: A * tariff rate% +B * 117% * value-added tax% - (A+A * tariff rate%) *% of value-added tax.

From the above formula, it can be found that the general trade tax is jointly affected by the tariff rate and the value-added tax rate. Tariff reduction will reduce the general trade tax, but businesses still need to pay the relationship of value-added tax. Besides taxes and fees, general trade needs to add insurance and pportation fees, so the tariff rate has a limited impact on the import cost.

Take urine pants as an example. Although the tariff on diapers is reduced to 2% this time, the tax rate is still around 20% after adding VAT.

In comparison with the current hot diapers, milk powder and other items on the cross-border e-commerce platform, there is a levy of 50 yuan, so it is usually 0 yuan for the products to be imported through the cross-border electricity supplier mode, and the price of the cross border urine pants still wins the general trade.

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Insiders who have many years of work experience told reporters that in fact, most of the tariff reductions last June and January this year were categories of clothing and skin care products, and those categories had a postal tax of up to 50%, and easily exceeded the quota of 50 yuan. Therefore, when tariffs were lowered, the price advantage of purchasing such products across cross-border electricity providers would be less obvious.

But Zhang Zhe, director of Xinyi technology cross border logistics, told reporters.

It is only one of the advantages of cross-border electricity providers. Besides tax rates, the convenience of commodity entry and commodity inspection is the two other advantages of cross-border electricity providers.

In terms of commodity access, many products need to run various kinds of complex licenses when importing from general trade, and even some products can not get into China without cross-border electricity providers. Compared with cross-border electricity providers, commodity inspection has higher cost and recommended time for general trade and commodity inspection.

Wu Sheng Xing, vice president of the luxury goods business, shows that the mode of customs clearance is largely determined by categories and business models, and the tax rate is only one factor.

"Standard products usually follow general import or bonded mode, while non standard products are more common through direct mail."