1. Various local commercial departments and Customs have no unitary operation on the relocation and upgrading & shifting of processing trade. There is plenty of differences between operation of different districts and lack of coordination between commercial departments and Customs. In order to avoid the passive and waste of the HK U-Turn for non-value equipment, professional assistance is required for solving the problems.

2. As we predicted recent years, it would be illegal and risky for not implementing compliance planning on the declaration of wines & spirit. Recently the media published the cases of wines prices fraud and large sum of fine and tax backfilling.

3. A new business model has been under research since last year, however, as lack of professional Customs consultancy support, the process is developing slowly. The general situation of this project is as below: for the great global demand of second hand electronic product, the Customs control zone will provide boned warehouse, exhibition, auction services, and assist on handling relevant license, tax and fee according to the auction result and logistic need. More information are available on request.

4. Last Monday, the General Administration of Customs signed a memorandum of cooperation with Shanghai government.