As an important window for China’s trade with Central Asia and Europe, Horgos Port has a series of preferential policies and convenient measures for logistics and transportation vehicles such as semi-trailers:
- Tax preferential policies: Horgos Port provides a preferential policy of “five exemptions and five reductions” for corporate income tax, that is, new enterprises are exempt from corporate income tax within five years from the tax year in which they obtain the first production and operation income. After the tax exemption period expires, they are exempt from the local share of corporate income tax for another five years. This policy has been extended to December 31, 2030.
- Customs clearance facilitation: Horgos Port optimizes customs clearance conditions and procedures, explores a “one-stop” customs clearance model, and improves customs clearance efficiency. At the same time, the customs provides 24-hour appointment customs clearance services, opens a “green channel” for the export of commercial vehicles, optimizes the on-site review and release procedures of the port, shortens the customs clearance time for export commercial vehicles, and creates the best customs clearance environment.
- Improvement of logistics service system: Horgos Port vigorously develops international logistics, improves the organization and development level of logistics of foreign trade enterprises, and forms a complete international logistics organization and service infrastructure.
- Drop-and-hook transport mode: The port adopts the “drop-and-hook” mode to transport commercial vehicles, providing enterprises with the convenience of efficient customs clearance and effectively reducing the comprehensive logistics costs of enterprises.
- Multimodal transport development: Horgos Port actively promotes the development of road-rail transport, implements the “one-order” multimodal transport service, supports the construction of special facilities and equipment for multimodal transport, and realizes the integration and sharing of multimodal transport information.
- Complete vehicle bonded warehousing supervision mode: Innovatively implement the “three ones” supervision mode of complete vehicle bonded warehousing, expand the number of complete vehicle imports at the port, optimize the customs clearance supervision process, and reduce corporate costs.
- Smooth logistics channels: In response to the overseas epidemic situation, continue to implement customs clearance modes such as “drop-and-hook transport, border bridge handover”, improve the transportation capacity of highway ports, and reduce cross-border logistics transportation costs.
- Border residents’ trade landing operation: Actively promote the pilot of border residents’ trade landing processing, explore and promote the “border residents’ trade + landing processing” model, take convenient measures, and promote the implementation of preferential policies.
These policies and measures aim to improve port service levels and efficiency, reduce logistics costs, and promote high-quality development of foreign trade.
