In 2016, numerous online retailers have taken“globalization”as the highlight. Cross-border purchase is on the upgrade, which brings new opportunities and challenges for the bonded warehousing facilities of cross-border ecommerce pilot cities. With the great boom of cross-border business, pilot cities and bonded warehouse facilities is expected to be enlarged, or there will be more logistics developers getting profits.  

　　Mr. Zhangyang, Manager of China Logistics Real Estate Research Department Jones Lang LaSalle, pointed out the differences between cross-border ecommerce and traditional ecommerce. Specifically, the former is engaged in importing procedures. For cross-border ecommerce enterprises (and their logistic partners), the optimization ability of customs clearance is crucial important, including the improvement of clearance rate and the expectation to tariff preference.

　　Reportedly, there are now two major cross-border ecommerce import modes, including direct purchasing import and bonded import. Specifically, direct purchasing import refers to domestic consumers make orders at home and the goods are delivered abroad. When the ecommerce platform and the Customs internet connected, the order information is synchronously transferred to the Customs. With the customs clearance in a special channel, direct purchasing import can be regarded as the regular “online shopping overseas”. After the customs declaration, the direct purchasing imported goods enter the domestic logistics network and are not different from the general products. The bonded import means the ecommerce enterprises firstly import a large stock of cargos and then stored them in the bonded warehouse of free trade zone. When domestic consumers make orders at home, the goods will be delivered out from the bonded warehouse after the customs declaration and personal postal articles tax, and then enter domestic logistics network. The advantage of cross-border bonded import is the massive stock beforehand. Generally, the consumer can get the ordered goods within 5 days since making the order. Whereas, consumers can get the ordered goods within or even more than 1-2 weeks by the direct purchasing import.

　　Due to policy restrictions, there are only a few cross-border ecommerce pilot cities getting the official approval of boned import, such as Shanghai, Guangzhou, Zhengzhou, Hangzhou and Tianjin etc. Therefore, the bonded warehouse business will be gathered in these pilot cities. The bonded warehouses are quite scarce in the cross-border ecommerce pilot cities. Some enterprises have even stored the goods in the simple tenet. The storage & logistics projects enjoying the cross-border policies are too hot to get an area. Plenty of enterprises crowed into the cross-border warehouse for business operation. A large number of companies have been waiting in line for entering the cross-border storage area, even thought the rent is quite high. It is also rather difficult to rent the warehouse near the port without cross-border policies.

　　For the logistic real estate investors who plan to explore the bonded storage market, it is the best choice to make investment in the pilot cities. However, for the general developers, the bonded storage areas seem very attracting. The bonded warehouse is specially supervised under the Customs and the bonded logistics land is extremely rare, so the standard for the bonded warehouse market is quite high. It is not easily for the general logistics real estate developers to share the market. 
From the report of Tianjin free trade zone, Haiwei Plaza, located in Tianjin port bonded zone, is approved to hang the signboard of“Free Trade zone Haiwei Cross-border Ecommerce Plaza”. With a total construction area of 24,000 square meters, Haiwei plaza is multifunctional for constant temperature storage, exhibition, office and etc. AS the demonstration base for cross-border retailers’stock, exhibition & order, office and operation, numerous ecommerce enterprises are scrambling for marching into the project.. Haiwei Plaza will surely become the operation center of cross-border ecommerce in Tianjin free trade zone, which will have the prospective investment highlight

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