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China (Tianjin) Free Trade Zone Management

Original Language Title: 中国(天津)自由贸易试验区管理办法

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Chapter I General

In order to promote and guarantee the construction and development of the China Free Trade Test Zone (Zinz), in accordance with the decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress to authorize the State of the Free Trade Pilot Zone in China ( Broad-East), China (Z) Free Trade Test Zone, China (Further) Free Trade pilots and China ( Shanghai) Free Trade test area to temporarily adjust the administrative approval of the relevant legal provisions, the decision of the State Department of State to agree to the establishment of the China (z) Free Trade test area (statement No. 177), China Free Trade Programme (CP) and the general legal framework for 2015.

Article II applies to the Free Trade Test Zone in China, which is approved by the State Department of State (hereinafter referred to as the ADB). The IPR area covers the zinc area of zinc, the space zinc airport area and the commercial area of the new zone, which is 119.9 square kilometres divided into customs special regulatory regions and non- Customs special regulatory areas.

Article 3 should build as a free trade, investment facilitation, high-end industrial assembly, improved financial services, environmental norms of the rule of law, regulation of efficient and effective international streams of radiation movable effects, and play a demonstration role in the development of our economy in Kyotozin.

Article IV focuses on the development of modern services such as shipping logistics, international trade, financing lease. The zinc airport area focuses on the development of productive services such as aviation space, equipment production, new generation of information technology, and development design, aviation logistics. The new regional centre in Yokohama has focused on the development of modern services with financial innovation.

The Customs special regulatory area in the UNCTAD test area focuses on exploring institutional innovations that are dominated by trade facilitation and carrying out operations such as trade in goods, financing rental, insurance processing and tax logistics. Non- Customs special regulatory areas in the UNCTAD test area focus on exploring investment system reform, financial innovation and actively developing modern services and high-end manufacturing.

Article 5 established the China (Yenz) Free Trade Test Zone Steering Group (hereinafter referred to as the Leading Group), which is responsible for leading the overall reform of the TA pilot area, and studies on major matters for determining the reform of the TA pilot area. The Leadership Team Office is located in the Urban Business Commission and assumes the day-to-day work of the Leading Group.

The establishment of the China (xiv) Free Trade Test Zone Management Committee (hereinafter referred to as the CMAC) has been established to study innovative measures to assess the reform of the TA pilot area, in accordance with the decisions and deployment of the Leading Group.

The relevant sectors of the city's Government and the Government of the people of the new region of Yokohama should, in accordance with their respective responsibilities, support the work of the Commission and assume other administrative matters in the self-UNCTAD pilot area.

Chapter II

Article 6. The Committee shall, at the request of the Government of the Rule of Law and the service-building system, enhance the management level by upgrading the management level, building the service system for adaptation to internationalization, marketization, rule of law requirements and trade investment liberalization, facilitation of the demand.

Article 7

(i) Organization of innovative measures for the implementation of the reforms in the TCPR area;

(ii) To study policy recommendations to deepen innovation in the area of trade and technology testing;

(iii) Organizing post-assessments of innovative measures for reform in the TCPR area;

(iv) Coherence with the development of relevant policy legislation in the TCPR area;

(v) Coordination of administrative work related to investment, trade, financial services, planning, statistics in the TAT;

(vi) Harmonization of relevant work in sectors such as financial, customs, testing, quarantine, maritime, border inspections in the area of trade tests;

(vii) Organizing research on the development of relevant systems and measures for post-disaster regulation in the UNCTAD pilot area and organizing implementation;

(viii) The publication of public information from the UNCTAD pilot area to provide relevant advice, services;

(ix) Other responsibilities conferred by the Government of the city.

Article 8. The Board established three offices to include the directory of the zinc airport area office in the SARC (CMS) in the IRN (LAC) Sector Management Committee (CEP) in the SARS (CEP) and the Director-General's Business Centre in the New District Centre of Nkohama, in the SARS (ADAM).

Article 9

Article 10. The Government of the people of the new region of Yokohama, in accordance with the relevant provisions of this city, implements matters such as planning, land management, integrated transport and major infrastructure-building, the regulation of the financing platform, the development of dedicated funds in the new area of the Yokohama.

Article 11 establishes a list of powers and responsibilities by the Commission and its institutions, with the specific exercise of the executive authority and the management responsibilities assumed by the Government of the city, which are made public by the Commission.

The Commission and its institutions exercise executive authority in accordance with the list of powers and the list of responsibilities, in accordance with the law, in a comprehensive and right manner, to perform management duties.

The executive and management functions of the Commission and its institutions should be adjusted in a timely manner and the list of powers and responsibilities should be updated.

Article 12. The Government of the city and its relevant sectors should decentralize the economic management authority at the municipal level and other management authority established by the Government of the city, in accordance with the innovative needs of the self-UNCTAD pilot area.

Article 13 imposes a relatively centralized administrative licence regime from the Trade Test Zone, which is exercised by the Integrated Administrative Accreditation Agency in accordance with the provisions of the Government of the city. The executive licence directory management from the UNCTAD test area has improved the harmonized approach to services accepted by the integrated window, the harmonization of administrative licensing procedures and the presentation of them, the simplification of the process, the introduction of on-site licences and online licences to facilitate the applicant.

Article 14. The establishment of offices for the provision of administrative services in various parts of the UNCTAD Test Zone, the improvement and progressive diffusion of web-based channels, the accessibility of administrative services, the promotion of administrative licensing service information systems, the interconnection between administrative licence data and credit information, regulatory networks and the sharing of information.

Article 15 Promotes government management from the UNCTAD Test Zone by focusing on ex-licens shifts towards ex post facto regulation, and by promoting the establishment of the post-licence regulatory standard regime.

A unified market regulatory system has been introduced in the UNCTAD test area, optimizing management processes and management systems, regulating market practices such as production, operation, trade.

Article 16 uses a unified credit management platform across the market area to improve market-led credit information pools, declarations, storage, sharing and application management, the sound market subjects and practitioners' credit information records and disclosure systems, and the promotion of good faith-inspiration and misconceptions.

Article 17 establishes a market subject-based credit rating standard from the Trade Test Zone, implements the regulatory system for the classification of credit risks by the market subject, conducts a rating of the market subject by proportional means, assigns a focus on the subject of a low credit hierarchy, and enhances oversight and frequency.

Article 18, in addition to special regulatory areas such as firefighting, safe production and tax, allows for the purpose of regulation, including through information bulletins, credit ratings, network monitoring, video surveillance, and does not conduct on-site inspections of market subjects in the self-IT test area. There is a need to conduct on-site inspections, which should be carried out on-site inspections by market actors on a proportion of a year, depending on the need for regulation of credit risk classifications. The inspection results should be presented in a harmonized credit management platform.

Chapter III Investment openness and trade facilitation

Article 19 expands external openings in advanced manufacturing areas such as shipping services, commercial services, professional services, cultural services, social services, and equipment manufacture, new generation of information technology, and actively attracts foreign investment effectively.

Under the context of the improvement of the accompanying measures, the self-TC test area has adequately reduced access restrictions on external investors in the financial sphere, equity ratios, operational scope.

Article 20 adds a negative list management model for the benefit of former nationals from the investment of external traders in the UNCTAD test area. In areas outside the negative list, the external investment projects are managed in accordance with the principle of internal foreign alignment, with the exception of approval by the State Department of State for domestic investment project retention; the establishment, change and licence of external investment enterprises.

Article 21 encourages domestic and foreign enterprises to establish regional headquarters, research and development centres, marketing centres, logistics centres and settlement centres in the TCPR area.

Article 2 encourages advanced high-end manufacturing industries to extend value chains and to integrate into modern services. The maintenance of high-technical, high-value products in the country is being carried out to explore the re-production of high-technical and high-value products outside the country.

Financial products such as promotion of patent rights, trademark rights, equity and credit receivable are in line with advanced high-end manufacturing development needs. In support of advanced high-end manufacturing enterprises, through marketing and flagship financing, have generated private financing instruments such as small and medium-sized enterprises to expand direct financing channels. In order to support the establishment of banks, financial companies, leasing companies, microfinance companies or financial services institutions in line with conditions.

Article 23 builds a single window for international trade from the UNCTAD test area, and companies transmit standardized electronic information through a single window to address the results through single window feedback.

Integrated management services platforms for cross-sectoral trade, transport, processing, warehousing, etc. have been established in the UNCTAD Test Zone to achieve inter-sector information exchange, regulatory mutual recognition and mutual legal assistance.

Article 24 Investment cooperation from outside countries is encouraged to build or utilize offshore investment cooperation parks.

The establishment of an investment cooperative enterprise development and growth incentive system for foreign investment cooperation from UNCTAD pilots, the adoption of measures such as investment guidance, education training, the orientation and facilitation of business familiarity with international rules of movement, the regulation of offshore operations and the upgrading of investment decision-making levels.

The establishment of a pooled service platform for external investment cooperation from UNCTAD pilots, improved management and services for external investment cooperation and the establishment of risk early warning and emergency security systems.

Article 25.

Support for the upgrading of basic operations, such as international trade, warehousing logistics, processing and manufacture, and trade development.

New types of trade operations, such as off-shore trade, international bulk commodity transactions, import commodity insurance tax show transactions, financing rentals, shipment tax credits, cross-border e-commerce, cultural services trade, green trade, and the parallel import of automotive imports, are encouraged.

In accordance with national provisions, article 26 liberalizes the external financing units of foreign companies operating outside joint ventures and international cooperative ships, allowing for the establishment of a foreign-sole international ship-management enterprise, allowing foreign companies to engage in public international ship-led operations in the form of joint ventures and cooperation, and the proportion of external units to 51 per cent.

The major development of the shipping finance, shipping insurance, the construction of the International Centre for the Financing of Navigation in the north of China, and the encouragement of the establishment and operation of an operating agency in the area of shipping services such as the offshore shipping insurance company and insurance brokers.

The competitive international ship registration policy has been implemented in the UNCTAD Test Zone, based on the implementation of the relevant policy accompanying the international ship registration system, the proportion of Chinese investors in possession of a ship company may be less than 50 per cent, making full use of the existing “convener” tax incentives for shipowners and promoting the registration of eligible ships in the self-Tuniversal area.

The UNCTAD pilot area has improved the International Postal Tourism Support Policy, upgrades the mail tourism supply services and accompanying facilities, and established the postal tourism trajectory and the mail tourism marketing centre.

In support of seaports from the ITC pilot area, air and sea ports in Kyotozin wish to build synergies in development advantages, increase international passenger freight routes, develop international transit operations, and build shipping, aviation logistics centres.

Article 27 provides for the creation of conditions in the UNCTAD Test Zone and actively hosts shipping logistics, airspace, equipment manufacture, electronic information, biological medicine, etc. in the provinces of Beijing, Northern Province. TKKSAR is encouraged to upgrade industrial transformation through cross-regional mergers and restructuring.

In the industrial chain, the TKinz region is promoting synergies in the design, production and logistics distribution.

To promote the optimization of modern services, advanced manufacturing and strategic emerging industries in the Hindu region through a combination of high-end industries from the TC test area, and to innovative regional economic cooperation models.

Article 28 provides access to exit, entry and residence facilities for foreign workers and foreign workers operating in the region from the UNCTAD test area.

Removal management should provide facilities for the processing of national exit documents for business employees in the self-UNCTAD test area.

Chapter IV

In addition to the laws, regulations, regulations and regulations, customs special regulatory areas are not subject to export and import licence regulations for goods entering and from outside the customs area, and goods are taxed from outside the customs special regulatory area or exempt from taxation and import chain taxes, and goods are transferred from the customs special regulatory area to exempt from export tariffs.

The customs special regulatory area is governed by existing provisions.

Customs specially regulated regional goods can be freely transferred. The customs specially regulates the sale of enterprises in the area of production or for products originating outside the country, free of the corresponding value added tax and consumer taxes. Customs specially regulates the transaction of goods between enterprises in the region and does not collect value tax and consumer taxes.

Non- Customs specially regulated areas are governed by existing models.

Article 33, in accordance with the requirements of customs facilitation and security efficiency, undertakes customs regulatory innovations in the self-UNCTAD test area and promotes new trade-related developments.

Customs establish a regulatory system for the classification of cargo in the special regulatory area of customs, and administers the electronic fence. Goods from outside the customs special regulatory area may be imported into the area by stepping up the border declaration process.

Customs specially regulates goods entering and out between regions and areas outside the territory and introduces regulatory systems such as vetting, enterprise book management, electronic information networking. Customs specially regulates the period of storage of goods in the area of levies. Streamlining customs specially regulating the flow of goods within the customs area, allowing for the transfer of reports, their own transport, and the efficient flow of goods between customs special regulatory areas and other customs special regulatory regions.

Customs implements lock-out, low-risk fast-moving in the area of trade tests, promote business in the AEO (A certified operators) in the ITC pilot area, piloting the “previous declaration, delivery to yardstick” customs management model, and introduces a system of “ownership tax, self-help, automatic review, priority review”.

In addition to the above-mentioned Customs Regulatory System innovation, the Customs undertakes other regulatory system innovations based on the actual needs of the TARC.

Article 31, in accordance with the principle of “to facilitate access and ensure security”, innovative testing of the Quarantine Regulatory System in the area of trade tests.

There is a system of inspection of goods based on the evaluation of good corporate integrity from the UNCTAD test area. In addition to waste raw materials, hazardous chemicals and their packagings, the quarantine sector has introduced a “climate quarantine, appropriate liberalization of export and import tests” model, innovative regulatory techniques and methods, and, in the second line, the screening process, and the testing model for quarantine control “to facilitate access, to close the risk of quality safety”.

The customs specially regulates the area of freight forwarding in accordance with the enterprise's application, introduces a pre-test system, a centralized test and write-offs. Access to special regulatory areas of customs shows that commodities are not tested.

Customs specially regulates the storage of logistics goods between enterprises in the area of customs protection from the testing of the quarantine.

International ships entering the special regulatory area of customs, implementing telecommunications or sanitary sanitary conditions, and, in general, no sequestrational quarantine.

A management system conducive to third-party test-testing institutions' normative development was established in the TCPR area. The testing of the quarantine sector, in accordance with the rules of international movement, is used to test the results by third parties.

Article III involves the cross-border area of large-scale equipment, such as the financial rental of enterprises in special regulatory areas, ship and marine engineering structures, which are registered in the customs administration area, subject to the actual needs of logistics, to be entrusted with the regulation.

Article 33 facilitates the integration of the Tinzin Hokkaa seaport and promotes the development and complementarity of the three air and sea ports. Improving the collateral logistics network at the zunciation port will result in innovative policies such as the will to remit to the Hindu and the diametery of the port. In support of Kyoto, it would be interesting to build specialized logistics parks in the self-UNCTAD pilot area to undertake modern logistics operations.

The optimization of the Inland Port Lobby to promote collaboration between the zinc and the landlocked shores. The interconnectivity function of the Too Eurasian continent has improved the multimodal transport system to enhance the trans-trade service functions of countries and regions along the Silk Roads.

Chapter V Financial services innovation

Article 34 promotes marketization of interest rates from the UNCTAD test area, and conducts a large-scale transferable asset distribution pilot in the region.

The transferable pilots within the GFA capital project limits have been carried out from the IPR area, and the eligible regional institutions can autonomously undertake direct investments, purchases, debt instruments, financial types of investment.

Enterprises are encouraged to use internal resources and markets for cross-border financing to reduce financing costs. To support eligible units and individuals invested in the overseas securities market in accordance with the provisions. To support the promotion of cross-border financing facilitation and the exchange of capital projects through free-trade accounts or other risk-control.

Article XV relaxs the licence and scale limitations of the issuance of foreign currency bonds by enterprises in the region outside the country. The establishment of a sound macro-prudential management system for external debt, the introduction of a unified external debt policy for foreign investment enterprises, and the exploration of foreign exchange management models suitable for commercial bond development.

Article XVI supports the establishment of foreign investment banks and medium-sized joint venture banks in the area of trade tests. Civil capital can initiate financial institutions such as the establishment of small banks, in accordance with the law, in the area of trade tests. A limited bank was established in the pilot.

In order to allow the successful operation of the foreign bank in line with the conditions established in the UNCTAD test area.

Article 37 establishes regional re-insurance centres, such as shipping insurance, major disaster insurance insurance, for example, through a pilot project on cross-border re-insurance operations and flood insurance.

Businesss from outside countries are gradually allowed to participate in commodity future transactions.

Article 33 promotes the innovation of the lease industry, builds a model national leasing innovation area, supports the establishment of research institutions such as the China Financial Leasing Research Institute, and develops an environment for the development of the lease industry on the international track.

In support of the establishment of the China zinc lease platform and the China Financial Leas registration trans-shipment platform, pilots such as rental assets registration, demonstration, flow transfer.

In support of offshore financing, various rental companies are encouraged to expand the use of cross-border public currency funds.

Professional subsidiaries were established in support of financial rental companies and finance rental companies. In support of the establishment of project companies by financial leasing companies and finance rental companies, the operation of large-scale equipment, package equipment, and the operation of external rental operations in the country.

Article 39 strengthens the interconnection between the TKinz region's trading market, new trading markets such as property rights, technology, humiliation, carbon emission rights, and promotes the rational and efficient flow of resources.

Financial institutions from the TA pilot area are encouraged to explore innovative and regulatory models for products that are aligned with the development of Kyotozin.

Article 40 establishes a risk-prevention mechanism for adaptation to financial operational development from the TCPR. The Board and the relevant sectors should work with financial management to improve financial risk monitoring and evaluation mechanisms.

Chapter VI Development of the environment

Article 40 establishes an inter-active mechanism with national ownership-innovated demonstration zones, using national ownership innovation demonstration programmes, bringing together high-end scientific and technological elements, exploring new models for regional scientific and technological cooperation and building regional innovative platforms that are innovative and dynamic.

Article 42 provides financial institutions such as banks to provide loans to small and medium-sized micro-enterprises through the implementation of the medium-sized micro-enterprise risk compensation mechanism in the area of trade tests. The active development of credit insurance and the encouragement of financial institutions in the insurance industry to provide assurance services to small and medium-sized micro-enterprises, to establish a loan security risk subsidy mechanism, and to encourage insurance agencies to develop insurance products for small and medium-sized enterprises.

Article 43 should strengthen coherence and encourage and support innovative training models for various vocational colleges, vocational skills training institutions and user units in order to promote vocational training in market demand and industrial development orientations, encourage workers to participate in vocational training, increase vocational skills, increase employment capacity and entrepreneurial capacity, and grant the corresponding benefits to those who obtain the corresponding vocational qualifications.

Article 44 supports the participation of industry associations, chambers of commerce and others in the development of innovation in the TA pilot area. Enterprises and relevant organizations from the UNCTAD test area are encouraged to express interest claims and engage in pilot policy assessments and market oversight.

Professional institutions such as lawyers' services, accountants' services, tax writers, intellectual property service agencies, post-primary inspection bodies, inspection bodies, certification bodies, ship and ship agents, public accreditation bodies, judicial accreditation bodies, credit service agencies, etc. are encouraged to operate in the self-UNCTAD test area.

Article 42 explores the talent evaluation methodology in line with international traffic practices, implements more active innovative talent introduction and incentives, and builds the international pool of talents.

High-level talent identification and incentives from UNCTAD pilots have given special policies to high-level practitioners in the areas of exit, entry, visa stay, project declaration, innovative entrepreneurship, evaluation incentives, service security.

To promote the establishment of an integrated reform pilot area for education and to support the introduction of quality education resources outside the country and cooperation in schools.

Article 46 BEP, in accordance with national provisions, implements tax policies for investment and trade promotion, implements tax policies for adaptation to offshore equity investments and offshore business development, establishes a fast-track tax service system and creating a fair competitive tax environment.

In accordance with national provisions, the IPRs replicate tax policies for the roll-out of China (Health) Free Trade pilots.

The tax sector should use the tax information system and the regulatory information-sharing platform in the TA pilot area to monitor tax risk and increase the level of tax administration.

Article 47 has been established in the North China region's Intellectual Property Operations Centre, which conducts cross-border transactions in intellectual property, innovative means of financing intellectual property, facilitates the establishment of a mechanism for the disposal of intellectual property, improve the management of intellectual property and the law enforcement system, and creates a mechanism for the prompt handling of intellectual property disputes.

Article 48 strengthens environmental protection in the context of the TCPR. Enterprises in the region are encouraged to apply for accreditation of environmental and energy management systems for international circulation, using advanced production processes and technologies, energy efficiency, reduction of pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions.

Article 49 establishes an assessment mechanism from the UNCTAD test area to conduct an integrated and dedicated assessment of the implementation of the pilot policy, in accordance with national provisions, and, where necessary, entrusts third-party assessment bodies with independent assessments. The results that are good and can be replicated, with the consent of the Department of State, have taken the lead in replication, conditionality and extension to other parts of the country.

Article 50 relates to commercial disputes between enterprises or individuals in the UNCTAD test area, where the parties to the dispute may be prosecuted by law to the People's Court or may apply for arbitration or commercial conciliation.

It was encouraged to introduce dispute resolution mechanisms such as arbitration, commercial mediation, and to deal with commercial disputes arising from the UNCTAD test area in a flexible and efficient manner.

Financial industry associations, self-regulation organizations, or joint professional mediation under the law, are encouraged to establish mechanisms for mediation and arbitration, litigation.

Article 50 implements anti-monopoly work mechanisms from the UNCTAD test area. The operators involved in the area should concentrate and meet the declared standards set by the State Department, and the operators should be declared in advance and the undeclared non-implementation. Investigation and enforcement are carried out in accordance with the law with respect to monopoly agreements, the abuse of market dominance and the misuse of administrative power to exclude and limit competition.

Article 52 implements the National Security Review System for Foreign and Commercial Investments from the UNCTAD Test Zone and conducts a national security review of the external investment that falls under the national security review.

Chapter VII

Article 53 is not consistent with this approach in other provisions of this city and is implemented in accordance with the provisions of this approach.

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