Liaoning Province has established five areas under special customs supervision successively with the approval by the State Council: Dalian Bonded Area, Dalian Export Processing Area (Zone A & B), Dalian Dayaowan Bonded Port Area, Shenyang Comprehensive Bonded Area (Zone B is in Shenyang FTA) and Yingkou Comprehensive Bonded Area, with the enclosed customs area of 14.84 km2.
There are also three bonded logistic supervision centers: Yingkou Port Bonded Logistic Center (B-Type), Panjin Port Bonded Logistic Center (B-Type) and Tieling Bonded Logistic Center (B-Type). Till April of 2018, there are 66 bonded warehouses and export supervision warehouses in use, with a total building area of 1.4 million m2.
The detailed situation is as follows:
1. Dalian Bonded Area
Established on May 13th, 1992 with the approval by the State Council, Dalian Bonded Area, with an area of 1.25 km2, passed the evaluation and check by the General Administration of Customs on October 17th, 1992 and was put into operation, with an enclosed customs area of 1.92 km2, with four main functions of international commerce, import processing, bonded warehousing, and commodity display, enjoying the preferential policies of tax exemption and bonded services, etc. With the main industries of trade, logistics, warehousing and processing, etc., it has 10,163 registered enterprises within the enclosed area, of which 1,124 have registered in the system of Chinese customs. In the first quarter of 2018, the area has produced 2788 million RMB yuan of import and export value, with a year-on-year growth of 4.82%, and the total value of bonded supervised goods has reached 2373 million RMB yuan, with a year-on-year decrease of 5.16%.
2. Zone A & B of Dalian Export Processing Area
Established on April 27th, 2000 with the approval by the State Council, Dalian Export Processing Area, with an area of 2.95 km2, passed the national-level joint evaluation and check on May 16th, 2001. Zone A of it has an area of 1.5 km2, and Zone B is the supplying area for Intel projects. It implements the tax exemption and bonded-service policies for importing equipment, raw materials, spare parts, and building materials, etc., and implements the preferential tax refund policies for introducing devices, raw materials and spare parts from other parts of China.
Zone A: The enterprises in this zone are mainly in the business of processing trade. It has 102 registered enterprises, of which 63 have registered in the system of Chinese customs. The business scope of these enterprises cover many fields such as home appliances, furniture, food, electronics, articles for daily use, and clothes processing and trade, etc. In the first quarter of 2018, the total value of bonded supervised goods has reached 2871 million USD, with a year-on-year growth of 15.38%.
Zone B: This zone is under special customs supervision and is established specially for Intel projects, with a planned area of 1.45 km2. With the approval of the General Office of the State Council, the location of the construction site of this zone was moved here in January of 2007, and it has been managed by the Administration Committee of Dalian Development Zone. The enclosed customs area of phase I is 0.6 km2, and it has passed the evaluation and check by the joint working group sent by the State Council on June 28th, 2007. The planned area of phase II is 0.85 km2 (0.27 km2 of the planned area has been later deducted), and the expansion project of phase II (0.58 km2) of Zone B passed the evaluation by Dalian Customs in January of 2015. In the first quarter of 2018, the area has produced 1001 million USD of total import and export value, with a year-on-year growth of 64.23%.
3. Dalian Dayaowan Bonded Port Area
Established on August 31st, 2006 with the approval by the State Council, Dalian Dayaowan Bonded Port Area has a planned area of 6.88 km2, and the phase I of the area (3.06 km2) passed the evaluation and check, which was put into operation on August 20th. It has four basic functions of port service, logistics, processing and display, and implements the preferential tax policies that foreign cargos entering the area enjoy the bonded policies, domestic cargos entering the area enjoy the tax refund policies, and all added-value tax and consumption tax of the cargo transaction within the area are exempted. The enterprises in the area mainly conduct the business of bonded warehousing and processing, with 222 registered enterprises, of which 46 are bonded warehousing enterprises. It makes full use of the advantages of the bonded port area, and puts great emphasis on the development of the industry of cold-chain logistics, with an industrial scale of 405 thousand tons recently. It has developed into the largest port base of bonded cold-chain logistics in China. In the first quarter of 2018, the area has produced 12657 million RMB yuan of import and export value, with a year-on-year growth of 19.97%, The total container throughput of the area is 639.9 thousand TEU, with a year-on-year decrease of 8.29%, and the total value of bonded supervised cargos has reached 17830 million RMB yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 1.33%. The total freight volume has reached 733.8 thousand tons, with a year-on-year growth of 26.66%.
4. Shenyang Comprehensive Bonded Area
Reorganized on the basis of the three areas under special customs supervision of the former Shenyang Export Processing Area, Shenyang (Zhangshi) Export Processing Area and Shenyang Bonded Logistic Park in Liaoning Province, Shenyang Comprehensive Bonded Area was established in September of 2011 with the approval of the State Council. It has a planned area of 7.1982 km2, with two separated parts (plot 1, in Liaozhong District, also known as Zone A; and plot 2, in Hunnan District, also known as Zone B). Zone A has a planned area of 4.1982 km2, and Zone B has a planned area of 3 km2. With the principle of "overall planning and step-by-step implementation", the total area of phase I of the enclosed area is 1.854 km2, of which Zone A is 1.168 km2 and Zone B is 0.686 km2. In October of 2012, phase I of Shenyang Comprehensive Bonded Area passed the joint evaluation and check by the ten national-level ministries and commissions and was put into operation. In August of 2017, according to the approving document from the State Council, the total area of Zone B was reduced by 1 km2 and the area was relocated into the Shenyang part of the China (Liaoning) Pilot Free Trade Area near Shenyang Taoxian International Airport. After the new Zone B was put into operation, the original planned area of Zone B was cancelled, and fences encircling the area were dismantled.
Till now, 60 enterprises in the area has been registered in the system of Chinese customs, of which 37 are in Zone A (with 13 production-oriented ones, and 24 non-production-oriented ones), and 23 are in Zone B (with 13 production-oriented ones, and 10 non-production-oriented ones).
In the first quarter of 2018, the total import and export freight volume under customs supervision of Shenyang Comprehensive Bonded Area is 1,643 tons, with a year-on-year decrease of 11.3%, including 1,252 tons of imported cargos, with a decrease of 17.9%, and 391 tons of exported cargos, with a growth of 19.2%. The total value of imported and exported cargos under customs supervision has reached 46.459 million USD, with a year-on-year decrease of 26%, including 24.19 million USD of imported cargos, with a decrease of 44.9%, and 22.26 million USD of exported cargost, with a growth of 18.2%. In the first quarter of 2018, the total amount of tax collection by customs in this area has reached 15.0127 million RMB yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 3.2%.
5. Yingkou Comprehensive Bonded Area
In April of 2015, the Provincial People's Government of Liaoning Province submitted the application for the establishment of Yingkou Comprehensive Bonded Area to the State Council, and the General Administration of Customs initiated the countersigning procedure of the relevant departments. To promote the development and construction of the Yingkou part of China (Liaoning) Pilot Free Trade Area, the relevant administrative departments have decided to build a comprehensive bonded area within the FTA instead of establishing a separated bonded area. With an area of 1.85 km2, Yingkou Comprehensive Bonded Area has 1.632 km2 (accounting for 88.09% of the total area) land area for the enterprises planning to enter. In December of 2017, the application for the establishment of a new separated bonded area in Yingkou was approved by the State Council, and it is now under construction.
6. Yingkou Port Bonded Logistic Center
On December 26th, 2008, Yingkou Port Bonded Logistic Center was established with the approval of the General Administration of Customs, the Ministry of Finance, the State Administration of Taxation and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange. On September 16th, 2009, the center passed the joint evaluation and check by the four national-level ministries and commissions. It has a building area of about 36 thousand m2, including seven office buildings and functional warehouses of different kinds, and about 400 thousand m2 for the storage and stacking of containers and bulk cargs, as well as the relevant operation fields, with fully encircled fences. The center offers bonded logistic services for over 50 large-scale enterprises including Foxconn. In the first quarter of 2018, the center's total volume of warehoused cargos is 1.27 million tons, with a year-on-year growth of 20%; the value of export trade is 12.25 million USD, with a decrease of 82%; the value of import trade is 530.75 million USD, with a decrease of 5%; the total value of imported and exported cargos has reached 543 million USD, with a decrease of 13%.
7. Panjin Port Bonded Logistic Center
Located in Rongxing Port Area in Liaodongwan New District of Panjin City, Panjin Port Bonded Logistic Center has a planned area of over 1 million m2, and the building area of phase I of the construction project is 500 thousand m2. The center was put into operation in July of 2017, and till now, the center has signed cooperation agreements of entering the center with 16 enterprises having needs for bonded business. In the first quarter of 2018, the total volume of import of boned cargos has reached 16 thousand tons, with the value of import trade of 1.547 million USD.
8. Tieling Bonded Logistic Center
With the approval by national-level administrative authority, the center was established in October of 2014. It is located in the southwestern part of Convention and Exhibition Center of Northeastern China Logistic City of Fanhe New District, with a total planned area of 211 hectares. The construction project has two phases. Phase I has a planned area of 153 hectares, and has obtained all approvals for establishment of project and land use, etc.; Phase II has a planned area of 58 hectares, and the main part of the construction works of Phase II has been completed. All relevant procedures are now in progress. In December of 2016, Phase I of the project passed the joint evaluation and check by national-level ministries and commissions. Till now, the center has built substantive business cooperative relations with three enterprises, and the procedures of entering the center have been finished. The work of attracting investment has made notable achievements to some degree.