澳深度调整出口监管

近期，澳大利亚对海关出口监管制度进行了重大调整，加强了海关对出口货物的监管，强化了海关应对特定安全事宜和识别与处理高风险出口货物的能力。与之有关的政策包括澳大利亚《1901年海关法》的修正案theCustomsAmendment（ExportControlandOtherMeasures）Act20111（以下简称“海关法2011年修正案”）和《1926年海关条例》的修正案theCustomsAmendmentRegulations（No．3）20111（以下简称“海关条例2011年第3次修正案”），这两个修正案自2011年11月28日起实施。此后，澳大利亚海关还发布了通知（AustralianCustomsandBorderProtectionNoticeNo．2011／56），提醒业界新法规生效后可能会出现的新的违法行为及其处罚。

Trade Supervision Adjusted

China celebrated its tenyear anniversary of joining the World Trade Organization on 11 December 2011. The country’s economic growth rates in these ten years had been the highest since its reform and opening-up. According to the statistics of the General Administration of China Customs (GACC), the annual total value of China’s foreign trade rose from USD509,651,000,000 in 2001 to USD2,970,000,000,000 in 2010 at an average annual growth of 21.6%, and then roeup to USD3,642,060,000,000 in 2011 at a year-on-year rate of 22.5%. The competitiveness of China was also enhanced as its economy boomed. China customs played a vital role in the country’s access to the WTO. The GACC was one of the five Chinese ministries that proposed China to return to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Some customs officers took part in the negotiations on China’s entry and finished some important tasks successfully. Their recollection about those works can be considered the most specific witness to the efforts that China customs had done for the country’s entry. China customs has made its endeavor to fulfill the commitment to the WTO. It accelerated the modernization of its own, optimized tens of thousands of documents, improved the related legal system, and enhanced the supervision. These have helped a lot in building an impartial, transparent and foreseeable trade and investment market in China.