Can Shenzhen's agency companies really help you pay 60% less customs duties?

When you place an order for an overseas product on a cross-border e-commerce platform, have you ever wondered how it crosses mountains and seas to reach your hands? Shenzhen's logistics import and export agency is the invisible director behind this global trade carnival. As a "barometer" of China's foreign trade, the container throughput of Shenzhen Port exceeded 30 million TEUs in 2023, and among every 10 containers, 4 are precisely dispatched by agency enterprises.

In Futian Free Trade Zone, Shenzhen, Mr. Zhang's company has to handle 200 import and export customs declaration forms every week. "Here is like a Lego factory," he pointed at the logistics flow chart on the computer and said, "We break down various national customs rules, transportation plans, and tax calculations into standardized modules, and customers only need to tell us the final pattern." This modular service is the core competitiveness of Shenzhen's agency industry.

• Geographical Advantage: Adjacent to the Hong Kong International Port, covering all production bases in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area within 5 hours
• Policy Dividend: The "advance declaration" model of Qianhai Free Trade Zone can shorten the customs clearance time by 40%
• Digital Infrastructure: The first city in the country to achieve full-process electronicization of customs, tax, and foreign exchange

Ms. Li recently entrusted a batch of German precision instruments to Zhongshitong for agency, and the originally worried 6% customs duty was finally reduced to zero. "They discovered the hidden clauses of the China-Europe Geographical Indication Agreement," she recalled. This local enterprise stands out in the fierce competition through a three-level risk control system:

• Primary Review: The AI system automatically compares more than 300 trade agreements
• Intermediate Judgment: An 8-person expert team provides industry-specific on-site services
• Final Filing: All documents are stored as blockchains and can be traced back to 2016

In the unmanned terminal of Yantian Port, AGV vehicles are pushing the agency industry into a new era:

• Intelligent Customs Declaration: Machine learning automatically generates HS codes with an accuracy rate of 98.7%
• Visualization of Carbon Footprints: Each shipment can query the carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation link
• Global Service Grid: Realize global goods delivery within 72 hours through overseas warehouse data sharing