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Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) is now under a crucial stage of second wave of venture building characterized by transformation and upgrading, and all enterprises and institutions in SIP are actively involved in the general trend, in which state-owned enterprises, as the important pillar and mainstay in SIP economy, are playing the role of pioneers in the endeavor.

As the first professional customs broker in SIP approved by General Administration of Customs of the PRC, Suzhou Industrial Park Customs Declaration Co (CDC) undertakes the laborious task as an active propeller in the transformation and upgrading. Following the development pace of logistic industry in SIP and in coordination with governmental

departments, CDC has experimented with new service modes of logistics operation, such as through mode, SZV air-land process, land-air export shipment, and cyber-monitoring system on collective declaration and subset clearance in export and processing trade zones, etc. In active participation in the logistic industrial chain, CDC has made ceaseless efforts in innovation of logistic modes, optimized the service and expanded the services to build itself into the strongest fourth-party integrated logistic enterprise in China.

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The Transformation Report of CDC (I)

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Founded at the beginning of 1996, Suzhou Industrial Park Customs Declaration Co (CDC) is the first professional customs broker in SIP approved by General Administration of Customs of the PRC. Based on the innovative regional logistic mode, CDC has been at the forefront of various reform measures of Customs and Commodity Inspection Bureau in Suzhou and Jiangsu Province. And it's worth mentioning that CDC plays an exemplary role among Customs Special Supervision zones in China, especially in marine cargo transfer in inland port, through mode, SZV air-land process, land-air export shipment.
Due to the global financial crisis, some exporters switched goods for export to the domestic market, which caused losses of business to customs brokers. And worse still, by linking enterprise network with that of Customs, more and more enterprises completed transaction of businesses on Internet without the middle links, which directly depressed businesses of customs brokers to [more]

CDC has been at the forefront in the customs clearance industry

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The Transformation Report of CDC (II)

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    The customs broker has been the bridge between the supervision apartments and enterprises. But when faced with massive data input for customs, commodity inspection and port declaration, customs brokers used to rely on "manpower strategy" which caused low efficiency and high error rate.
    So, by assimilating information technology to logistic and clearance service, CDC has developed Public Integrated Platform for Standardized Customs Declaration, currently the only comprehensive supply chain management platform in China, which has completely revolutionized the traditional operation mode of customs clearance and improved technological content as well as the logistic efficiency.
    By adopting such cutting-edge network technologies as B/S model, WEB2.0 and Oricle massive database, the platform ensures the system safety through virtual private network (VPN). [more]

Interface of Public Integrated Platform for Standardized Customs Declaration

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The Transformation Report of CDC (II)

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  Thanks to socialized pre-classification offered by Suzhou Industrial Park Customs Declaration (CDC), the duration of commodity delivery is shortened to 8-10 days from 20 days, the speed of clearance further improves and business volume of import and export enterprises rapidly increases.
  CDC becomes the only authorized unit in Suzhou for pre-classification of goods
    Commodity pre-classification of import and export goods is used to classify traded productions in light of the harmonized commodity description and coding system (HS) under the classification rule of Customs. This business is an important professional administration function during customs clearance process of General Administration of Customs of the PRC, and the customs' working emphasis of clearance renovation and clearance procedure standardization. The socialized pre-classification l[more]

Customs Declaration Desk set up by CDC at SIP Integrated Free Trade Zone

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The Transformation Report of CDC (IV)

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      With the new trend of economic development at home and abroad, Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) has entered the new stage of second wave of business growth based on transformation and upgrading.
     As one of the important fields for modern service in SIP, SIP Integrated Free Trade Zone aims to become the pilot zone of professional international commodity trade. The Wine Trading Center of Suzhou, opened on June 6 in the Free Trade Zone as the first wine trading center in Suzhou, is following the trend of the transformation.
   The Wine Trading Center, jointly built by Suzhou Logistics Center, Suzhou Delta Logistics Co, CDC and Utrans Supply Chain Management (Suzhou), has been receiving strong support from SIP Customs and SIP Commodity Inspection ever since its preparatory stage. CDC's mission is to supply the center with full-range logistic service in China, which also offers itself an important platform to achieve transformation on logistics specialization, program customization and project management.[more]