Recently, 278 parallel imported cars have been inspected on the testing line of Tianjin Tianjian Automobile Testing Service Co., Ltd. in Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone. According to Tianjin Customs, in the first quarter of 2024, Tianjin Customs inspected a total of 8,475 parallel imported cars, with a year-on-year increase of 15.5%, making a good start.

As a main distribution center of parallel imported cars in China, Tianjin Port has formed a perfect industrial chain integrating finance, reconditioning, modification, inspection, warehousing, logistics and marketing. The parallel imported cars cleared at Tianjin Port have involved more than 30 brands and 123 models.

“Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone Customs inspects our vehicles while testing their safety performance on the testing line. This one-stop service saves us time and cost,” said Zhang Lihong, manager of Tianjin Weilang International Freight Forwarding Co., Ltd. In order to facilitate the parallel import of cars, Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone Customs has provided enterprises with “one-stop” inspection and testing service, established a dynamic guarantee mechanism, and adjusted the allocation of front-line inspection personnel in real time according to the booking number of online tests and the extreme weather conditions, to ensure that the needs of vehicle customs clearance and inspection are met. Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone Customs continues to optimize the customs clearance process for parallel imported cars, integrate document checking, inspection, certificate issuance and other aspects, arrange and coordinate the on-site certificate issuance points and time, reduce the times of inspections and certificate receipts for enterprise, and at the same time, improve the normalized mechanism of communication and coordination among relevant units, report the industry dynamic in a timely manner, and provide better directed services, to promote the healthy development of parallel imported automobile industry.

It is understood that in the next step, Tianjin Customs will continue to rely on regional and policy advantages, give full play to the scale effect of parallel imported cars, constantly optimize the customs clearance process for parallel imported cars under the new mode, attract more automobile enterprises to settled in, strive to expand the imported automobile industry chain within the Zone, accelerate the implementation of the compliance-related rectification policy, promote the bonded display, reconditioning for transit and other business with relation to imported cars, enabling the automobile industry in the Free Trade Zone to gradually upgrade from the original single chain focused on trade and finance to a diversified whole chain integrating trade, reconditioning, production and display, etc.