Several days ago, under the control of Huangdao Customs House in Qingdao Customs District, a consignment of cross-border e-commerce goods was carried by a truck into Qingdao Cross-Border E-Commerce Industrial Park and then quickly released through X-ray inspection.

Just in 36 hours, this cross-border e-commerce consignment went through air transport from Australia to Inchon, South Korea and sea transport from Inchon to Qingdao consecutively, marking the initiation of special “air-sea combined transport” for cross-border e-commerce goods in Qingdao Customs District.

By taking advantage of Inchon airport in South Korea, Qingdao Customs helped local cross-border e-commerce firms integrate the element resources such as warehousing, shipping, airlift, trade, supply chain, and port to create new logistic approaches of “air-sea combined transport” for imports and “sea-air combined transport” for exports, bringing much lower cost and higher efficiency to the logistics.

In order to promote the development of cross-border e-commerce, Qingdao Customs has implemented total paperless processing of import/export declaration, document examination, duties collection, cargo inspection and release, together with close control by comparative analyses among orders, waybills or manifests, and payment vouchers. To date, all the modes of Customs control over cross-border e-commerce have been put into application in Qingdao.