Dalian has initiated a new round of reforms aimed at facilitating cross-border trade. Led by the Dalian Municipal People's Government Port Office and jointly issued by 27 departments including customs, maritime affairs, border inspection, commerce, and transportation, the "Dalian 2026 Special Action Measures for Cross-Border Trade Facilitation" have been introduced. These measures focus on coordinating and integrating port resources, iteratively upgrading institutional initiatives, unleashing the dividends of reform, effectively enhancing the port's openness and capacity, and supporting the city's high-quality development in foreign trade.
The 27 newly released measures for cross-border trade facilitation align with the deployment requirements of the General Administration of Customs. They are closely integrated with Dalian Port's positioning, industrial characteristics, and market demands, concentrating on five key areas: deepening innovation in customs clearance supervision models, optimizing regulatory services for new forms of foreign trade, enhancing the efficiency of cross-border logistics and transportation, strengthening the construction and interconnectivity of digital and intelligent ports, and reinforcing comprehensive enterprise service support. These measures balance national requirements with regional characteristics, covering all aspects of port clearance, logistics and transportation, industrial cultivation, and enterprise services.
Deepening cross-border trade facilitation reforms is a crucial step for Dalian in building an international shipping center in Northeast Asia and solidifying its role as a gateway for Northeast China's opening-up. It also serves as a key lever for stabilizing foreign trade, strengthening industries, and promoting openness. Relevant port departments are collaborating and working in unison to continuously optimize clearance processes and stabilize enterprises' clearance expectations, providing a solid guarantee for stabilizing and improving the quality of the city's foreign trade imports and exports.
The optimization of the port business environment has no endpoint and will never cease. This round of 27 facilitation measures represents a significant initiative by Dalian to leverage its port advantages, empower industrial upgrading, and serve regional development. It is also a pragmatic action to benchmark against advanced practices, deepen reforms, and enhance quality and efficiency. Moving forward, relevant departments will collaboratively promote the implementation of these reform measures to ensure their effectiveness and enable enterprises to quickly benefit from the dividends. The new achievements in cross-border trade facilitation reforms will continue to empower the construction of the "Two Pioneering Zones" and "Three Centers."
The full text of the measures is as follows:
**Dalian 2026 Special Action Measures for Cross-Border Trade Facilitation**
**01 Deepen Innovation in Customs Clearance Supervision Models**
(1) Optimize Export Supervision for Key Commodities In accordance with national deployment requirements for establishing "white list" systems for enterprises and products, focus on characteristic commodities such as automobiles and address policy requirements for bonded testing businesses. Strengthen policy promotion, interpretation, and efforts to attract and cultivate businesses. Provide comprehensive support for the export of characteristic agricultural and food products, establish assistance mechanisms for enterprises seeking overseas registration, implement risk control and quality safety management systems tailored to specific products, regions, and enterprises ("one product, one policy; one region, one policy; one enterprise, one policy"), and increase recommendations for the overseas registration of enterprises exporting agricultural and food products. Achieve a new cross-departmental supervision model of "one-form inspection + mutual recognition of inspections" in the food production sector.
(2) Actively Respond to Foreign Technical Barriers Monitor trends in multilateral and bilateral international trade rules and agreements, as well as economic and trade industrial policies in regions like the US and Europe. Strengthen the promotion and interpretation of rules and risk assessment, and establish a trade risk warning column on the smart port platform. Encourage local inspection, testing, and certification institutions in Dalian to actively apply for mutual recognition qualifications such as CNAS and CB. Advance the construction of the Dalian (Zhuanghe) Processing Trade Aquatic Products Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Evaluation Base. Encourage enterprises with independent intellectual property rights to complete customs recordal for IP protection and guide them in safeguarding their legitimate rights and interests. Establish and improve a technical investigation officer system to provide technical support for determining technical facts in intellectual property dispute cases.
(3) Implement Differentiated Inspection and Supervision for Consumer Goods Establish a "green channel" for the clearance of imported debut consumer goods, optimize procedures such as sampling, inspection, and testing, and improve the clearance efficiency for these goods. Implement new electronic supervision models for Chinese labels on imported food, cosmetics, hazardous chemicals, etc. Continue to reform the supervision model for imported chilled and frozen aquatic products using a "white list + sampling release" approach, and ensure pilot clearance support allowing "short shelf-life" products to be marketed for sale after sampling and submission for testing.
(4) Promote Integrated Port and Place-of-Destination Supervision Strengthen cross-regional coordination and support, enabling eligible goods such as mechanical and electrical equipment, high-tech products, grains, fruits, bulbs, oilseeds and oils, and seedlings to enjoy the convenience of "direct port clearance, destination supervision."
(5) Optimize Documentation Processing and Clearance Procedures for Pharmaceutical Imports Prioritize import clearance procedures for radiopharmaceuticals and medical isotopes. Collaborate with the National Medical Products Administration to upgrade the "Drug and Medicinal Material Import Filing Management Information System," enabling self-service printing of the "Import Drug Clearance Notice" and promoting its use.
(6) Enhance Trade Compliance Management Levels Increase the deployment of intelligent "quick screening" (rapid testing) equipment for inspections; continuously strengthen testing capacity building, focusing on key products such as pesticides, meat, aquatic products, and export-controlled items, to comprehensively improve testing and identification capabilities.
**02 Optimize Regulatory Services for New Forms of Foreign Trade**
(7) Facilitate the Inbound and Outbound Flow of Cross-Border E-commerce Promote and expand awareness of the "1210" bonded e-commerce export model within special customs zones, and strengthen enterprise cultivation and project attraction. Establish a dedicated "hands-on" service team mechanism to enhance support for "first launches and innovations" in the cross-border e-commerce sector. Set up pre-shipment consolidation warehouses for export products and return centers for import products within comprehensive bonded zones, supporting the export of cosmetics via the bonded cross-border e-commerce model (Customs Supervision Code 1210); build a comprehensive cross-border e-commerce logistics service platform within the comprehensive bonded zone to serve the entire city.
(8) Optimize Comprehensive Regulatory Services for Overseas Warehouses Support convenient measures for cross-border e-commerce export goods in overseas warehouses, such as customs transfer and return shipment supervision, guide enterprises in standardizing declarations, and improve logistics efficiency. Optimize business processes for export overseas warehouses, eliminating the requirement for overseas warehouse filing; establish priority inspection channels for cross-border e-commerce export goods destined for overseas warehouses (e.g., under code 9810), implementing appointment-based inspections, priority task assignment, and time-limited completion. Provide cross-border e-commerce enterprises with services for explaining and interpreting technical trade measures and customs IP protection policies, assisting enterprises in compliant exports. Guide enterprises in effectively utilizing policies like "tax refund upon departure, accounting upon sale."
(9) Enhance Small Parcel Export Capacity Support the consolidation of small parcels under market procurement trade, implement simplified declaration and rapid inspection and release, and optimize consolidation operations. Actively seek pilot programs for "inspection before loading," supporting the co-loading of cross-border e-commerce goods with other commodities for export. Support the establishment, renovation, and implementation of pre-shipment inspections for supervision sites used for consolidation. Promote the construction of industrial parks to create "one-stop" comprehensive cross-border e-commerce warehouses. Encourage and support postal and express delivery enterprises in strengthening cross-border delivery infrastructure.
(10) Support the Development of International Distribution Business Within comprehensive bonded zones, implement the co-storage, sorting, distribution, and dispatch of different types of goods such as overseas returns, domestic goods entering the zone, and overseas imports, enabling cross-border e-commerce products to be processed, inspected, and cleared at the same site. Support the development of automobile and KD (knock-down) parts transshipment and distribution business at the Dayao Bay Bonded Logistics Center, accelerating the creation of a comprehensive automobile export service base.
(11) Improve Service Levels for International Exhibitions Continuously optimize facilitation services for the inbound and outbound movement of exhibition items, support the lawful and compliant trial use and tasting of exhibition items like cosmetics and food, and reduce costs for overseas enterprises participating in exhibitions. Support exhibition organizers in using customs duty guarantee letters or customs duty guarantee insurance policies issued by banks or non-bank financial institutions to handle specific customs business guarantees for temporarily imported and exported goods. Standardize the purchase of exhibition items after shows, promote compliant exhibition organization; expand the "bonded warehousing + out-of-zone display" model, supporting more exhibition items to enter the zone for bonded warehousing and subsequent display.
**03 Enhance the Efficiency of Cross-Border Logistics and Transportation**
(12) Promote Efficient Operation of Multimodal Transport Replicate and promote the "One Bill of Lading" service model for international sea-rail intermodal transport, further extending shipping companies' ocean bills of lading inland. Advance "one-time entrustment, one-time settlement of fees, one-time insurance, one bill of lading throughout, one container throughout" to reduce cargo transfer time and costs. Develop a "Port-Railway Connectivity" model, promote the construction of land-sea intermodal transport information services and supervision systems. Optimize supervision processes for transit goods, supporting the construction of multimodal transport channels for commercial vehicles from East Asia to Central Asia; optimize declaration and supervision processes for international transshipment goods, implementing automatic release.
(13) Facilitate Passenger Entry and Exit at Airports Further optimize air route network layouts and slot resource allocation, expand the coverage of international connecting flights, achieving "one-time check-in, one-time security check, baggage through-check." Deepen collaboration on airport clearance, optimize customs supervision procedures, and implement flow-aligned supervision for passengers. Implement 24-hour direct transit exempt from inspection formalities. Promote the implementation of a "dual pre-inspection" supervision model for passengers' carry-on and checked luggage upon arrival.
(14) Optimize Maritime Cross-Border Transportation Services Implement mutual recognition of maritime supervision results across regions, promote "one-container" transport for key goods like lithium batteries and electric vehicles, conduct remote maritime inspections for key goods, and establish green channels for "new three" goods (referring to new energy vehicles, lithium batteries, photovoltaic products). Implement a full-process logistics monitoring model of "pre-arrival review, direct shipside pickup, intelligent release" for import cargo; optimize export cargo supervision processes, realizing a "direct loading upon arrival" model of "advance declaration, cargo release, port consolidation and loading."
(15) Improve the Development Level of Cross-Border Rail Freight and International Road Transport Promote the integrated development of transportation and trade, encourage the development of TIR cross-border transport business. Regularly release TIR transport information to cross-border e-commerce enterprises to broaden logistics channels. Focus on TIR international road transport clearance needs, formulate dedicated clearance procedures to provide clear guidance for enterprises; strengthen collaborative supervision, conduct pre-event risk assessment, in-transit physical comparison, and en-route monitoring, achieving "one-time declaration, efficient inspection and release, direct delivery by vehicle" for goods.
(16) Advance the Digitalization of Logistics Documents Continue to promote pilot projects for paperless container release at ports, and advance the comprehensive application of Electronic Delivery Orders (EDO) and Electronic Equipment Interchange Receipts (EIR) at Dalian Port.
**04 Strengthen the Construction and Interconnectivity of Digital and Intelligent Ports**
(17) Accelerate the Improvement of Port Infrastructure Advance the final acceptance inspection for Phase I of the 301# and 302# berth projects in the bulk grain operation area of the Taiping Port area. Increase the replacement and updating of inspection equipment and laboratory testing equipment at water and air ports to enhance port inspection and laboratory testing efficiency. Promote the construction of intelligent infrastructure for port border inspection, complete the upgrade of the intelligent inspection checkpoint at Dalian Port's oil terminal, and renovate facilities at Berths 8# and 9# of the passenger terminal.
(18) Expand the Application of "AI+" Scenarios Deepen the application of AI document review models, continuously advance the construction of "Clearance e-Operation"; promote the full coverage of "Cloud Video Patrol Inspection" intelligent law enforcement recorders in port supervision areas; build a base intelligent computing power platform, actively expand intelligent computing resources, and improve laboratory intelligent testing efficiency. Construct a ship supervision intelligent system to achieve intelligent pre-inspection, intelligent verification, and intelligent reporting for flag state control inspections. Develop an intelligent border inspection management and control platform to realize functions such as dynamic analysis of personnel behavior in port areas, automatic comparison and warning of video images, and intelligent crew supervision.
(19) Pilot the Creation of Green and Low-Carbon Ports Orderly advance the construction and upgrading of shore power facilities at ports, continuously addressing shortcomings in port green supporting infrastructure. Regularly promote the use of shore power by vessels at berth and optimize the power connection service process. Promote the effective implementation of pilot tasks for Dalian's bonded fuel bunkering business qualifications. Extend the applicability of the "dual warehouse function overlay" policy to clean marine fuel areas such as LNG and green methanol. Support public bonded warehouses for liquefied natural gas in conducting "cold tank + international transit" business for bonded LNG.
(20) Enhance the Enterprise Service Functions of the International Trade "Single Window" Strengthen the construction of the International Trade "Single Window's" one-stop intelligent service capabilities, update Dalian's sea and air port clearance processes and operational time limit standards. Rely on the "Single Window" to optimize the declaration procedures for entry and exit formalities for Chinese and Singaporean international sailing vessels, and conduct joint boarding inspections for international cruise ships.
(21) Expand the Interconnectivity of the International Trade "Single Window" Deepen the advancement of the Smart Visa - Visa Data Exchange Project, promote the expansion of the scope of countries for certificate network verification, explore paperless application of certificates, and improve the function for automatic comparison and verification of certificate data with clearance data.
**05 Strengthen Comprehensive Enterprise Service Support**
(22) Increase Support for High-Credit Enterprises Rely on the municipal public credit information management platform to publicize the list of AEO enterprises, grant additional points to AEO enterprises as positive information in public credit evaluations, and strengthen the sharing and application of results. Increase the premium support ratio for AEO-certified enterprises purchasing short-term export credit insurance. Encourage and support third-party service providers in offering enterprises one-stop services for registration, declaration, tax payment, etc., reducing the cost for SMEs to handle related business independently.
(23) Continuously Unleash the Policy Dividends of Enterprise Voluntary Disclosure Establish an "Easy Disclosure" communication platform, supporting legitimate enterprises with the willingness to voluntarily correct errors to achieve online "one-time communication, unified acceptance, and consolidated feedback"; for situations meeting the criteria of "no penalty for first-time violations" or "no penalty for minor violations," customs will not impose administrative penalties.
(24) Support Enterprises in Addressing Green Trade Barriers Support the Dalian Inspection and Certification Group in building a public service platform for key product carbon footprint labeling and certification covering local dominant industries such as petrochemicals, equipment manufacturing, transportation, and new energy. Actively carry out product carbon footprint accounting and certification, achieving connectivity on the Dalian Smart Port Service Platform to facilitate enterprises in self-calculating carbon emissions during goods transportation. Include green and low-carbon enterprises intending to apply for Advanced Certification into a key credit cultivation directory for "one-on-one" credit cultivation; prioritize the certification of eligible green and low-carbon enterprises to help them timely enjoy AEO facilitation measures.
(25) Promote Differentiated Management for Service Trade Enterprises and Data Through measures such as subsidies for overseas exhibition participation and support for export credit insurance, assist enterprises in exploring international markets and防范ing collection risks. Implement differentiated management measures based on enterprise credit ratings, granting high-credit enterprises more clearance conveniences, joint incentive measures, and AEO mutual recognition便利措施. Accelerate the release of policy dividends from trade foreign exchange receipt and payment facilitation, further implement measures such as simplified document review and netting settlement, expand the coverage of cross-border trade foreign exchange receipt and payment facilitation, relax management of service trade advance payment business, and support advance payment of transportation, warehousing, and other fees between eligible non-affiliated enterprises.
(26) Optimize Export Credit Insurance Services on the International Trade "Single Window" Continuously build a communication platform for credit insurance and banks, integrate the credit enhancement function of credit insurance into banks' trade finance and inclusive financial service systems, and expand the coverage of policy financing business. Integrate data resources from insurance, banking, taxation, etc., fully leverage the functions of the International Trade Single Window, combine the three便利化手段 of credit insurance, credit, and tax rebates to provide SMEs with fast, low-interest inclusive financing services and support enterprise development. Encourage and guide banking financial institutions to cooperate with China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation to launch service products like credit insurance loans, leveraging functions such as the financing credit enhancement of export credit insurance on the "Single Window."
(27) Improve the Convenience Level of Cross-Border Trade Settlement in RMB Prioritize supporting enterprises in expanding to key industries and fields such as technological innovation, as well as enterprises within free trade zones and those related to the "Belt and Road" initiative. Utilize the "Mutual Recognition Mechanism for High-Quality Enterprise Lists from Sixteen Regions" to provide efficient cross-border RMB settlement便利化 services for enterprises on the list. Optimize便利化 services for high-quality enterprises in cross-border RMB settlement to improve business processing efficiency.
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