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Overview of China-British Joint Feasibility Study Consultation on Service and Trade

From June 30 to July 1, the technical consultation on the joint feasibility study of the Sino-British Service and Trade Agreement was held successfully in London, UK. This consultation has made substantial progress, and both parties have made it clear that they will speed up the follow-up docking work and promote the completion of the joint feasibility study task as soon as possible. Tracing back to the cooperation process, China and Britain formally signed a memorandum of understanding in January this year to start the joint feasibility study of the service and trade agreement. At the early stage, basic opinions have been exchanged through two online technical consultations, and a normalized communication mechanism has been gradually established. Breakthroughs in the offline consultations marked that the process of service trade liberalization between China and Britain entered the practical operation stage, which will comprehensively drive the upgrading of cross-border logistics, shipping services, trade and customs clearance and other supporting fields, and create a stable policy environment for cross-border large cargo transportation between China and Britain.

Industrial Characteristics and Trade Demands of Cross-border Logistics of Large Engineering Equipment

Large engineering equipment, such as rotary drilling rig and pile driver, is the core equipment for cross-border infrastructure cooperation. The overall size of the equipment is huge, with high dead weight and precise structure. The equipment belongs to typical super large special goods, and the requirements for the professionalism, stability and compliance of cross-border shipping logistics are far more than common goods. Such оборудование is widely used in infrastructure reconstruction, overseas engineering assistance and cross-border infrastructure project cooperation between China and Britain, mainly relying on the transportation of special large and large ocean-going ships. The transportation process covers customized loading, special shipping, special customs clearance, landing operation and maintenance and other links. At the same time, large-scale engineering equipment has long transportation cycle, high single value of goods, strong degree of customization, highly relies on the support of the cross-border service trade system, and the quality of shipping services, customs clearance services and logistics supporting services directly determine the timeliness and cost of equipment transportation.

Breakthrough in service and trade negotiation and optimization of cross-border logistics service system

The substantial progress of the Sino-British Technical Negotiation on Service Trade focuses on improving the cross-border logistics and shipping service field and gradually breaking the bilateral service trade barriers. With the continuous improvement of the service trade cooperation mechanism between the two sides, the access threshold of cross-border shipping services will be gradually relaxed, and the service fields such as large logistics supporting services, international перевозки agencies and cross-border freight security will be further opened. For the transportation of large equipment such as rotary drilling rig and pile driver, the problems existing in the past cross-border logistics, such as inconsistent service standards, poor connection of supporting resources, and lag in cross-border operation and maintenance services, will be effectively alleviated. Logistics enterprises can obtain more smooth cross-border service authority, optimize the whole process of ocean transportation of large equipment, and improve the professionalism and completeness of the overall logistics service.

Simplify customs clearance process and improve transportation efficiency of large equipment

During the promotion of the feasibility study of the Sino-British Agreement on Services and Trade, the two sides will synchronously promote the reform of trade customs clearance facilitation, simplify the process of cross-border cargo review and customs clearance inspection, unify some freight service standards, and greatly reduce non-tariff trade barriers. Cross-border transportation procedures of large engineering equipment are cumbersome, with many inspection links and high retention risk, which has always been the key pain point restricting the transportation timeliness. With the continuous optimization of bilateral customs clearance service system, the efficiency of cross-border declaration, inspection and release of oversize equipment such as буровая установка роторного типа and pile driver will be significantly improved, so as to effectively avoid port detention, formalities delay and other problems, shorten the overall cycle of ocean transportation, accurately match the equipment mobilization and construction progress of foundation construction projects in China and Britain, and ensure the orderly progress of cross-border projects.

Stabilizing trade expectation and activating large equipment logistics market vitality

From the perspective of industry development, China-British normalized service and trade consultation and steadily advanced feasibility study work lay a solid policy foundation for bilateral economic and trade cooperation and thoroughly improve the wait-and-see situation of cross-border logistics market. Previously, the ambiguous rules on service trade between China and Britain and incomplete cooperation mechanism have resulted in large equipment cross-border logistics enterprises not daring to make long-term layout, prudent input in transportation capacity and short-term cooperation contract. Now the cooperation has made a substantial breakthrough, and the stable policy expectation allows the logistics enterprises to dare to increase the capacity investment of special heavy-cargo ships, open up China-British direct shipping lines, optimize the cross-border logistics layout, effectively relieve the tense problem of shipping capacity of large engineering equipment, and further expand the trade circulation channels of bilateral infrastructure equipment.

Reduce comprehensive logistics cost and increase industry development space

The gradual elimination of service trade barriers can effectively reduce the comprehensive operation cost of cross-border logistics of large engineering equipment. On one hand, the market-oriented opening of shipping services, agency services and cross-border supporting services reduces the intermediate premium and compliance costs; On the other hand, harmonised bilateral service standards and customs clearance rules reduce the risk of compliance and additional wastage in the transportation of equipment. For the engineering equipment with high-frequency cross-border transportation such as rotary drilling rig and pile driver, the decline of comprehensive costs such as logistics, service and compliance can effectively reduce the enterprise equipment shipping and procurement costs, improve the market competitiveness of bilateral infrastructure equipment trade between China and Britain, and promote the benign development of the industry.

Перспективы дальнейшего развития отрасли

On the whole, the substantial breakthrough of this Sino-British service and trade technical consultation brings all-round benefits to the cross-border shipping logistics of large engineering equipment such as rotary drilling rig and pile driver, and the cross-border logistics ecology is optimized from multiple dimensions such as service system, customs clearance timeliness, market vitality, cost control, etc. With the implementation of subsequent joint feasibility study and promotion of service and trade agreement, the logistics of large equipment between China and Britain will develop towards standardization, high efficiency and normalization. In the future, based on the continuous and deepened Sino-British service and trade cooperation, the cross-border heavy-cargo logistics capacity will be continuously upgraded and the supporting services will be continuously improved, providing a solid logistics guarantee for Sino-British infrastructure economic and trade cooperation and overseas project construction.