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16%VAT reduced to 13%; cargo port charges reduced by 15%; production safety emergency regulations implemented; Japan officially ended the GSP treatment for China ...... From April 1, 2019, a number of new laws and regulations or industry standards will be formally implemented, affecting our lives.

1.4Month 1From now on, 16%VAT cut to 13%! Textile people welcome the policy"Big red envelope"

3On May 5, the Premier of the State Council, on behalf of the State Council, made a government work report to the second session of the 13th National People's Congress, focusing on reducing the tax burden of manufacturing and small and micro enterprises, and deepening the reform of value-added tax:

Reduce the current 16% tax rate in manufacturing and other industries to 13%; Reduce the current 10% tax rate in transportation, construction and other industries to 9% to ensure that the tax burden of major industries is significantly reduced; Keep the 6% tax rate unchanged, but by adopting supporting measures such as increasing tax deductions for production and life services, ensure that the tax burden of all industries is only reduced but not increased, continue to move towards the promotion of three and two tax rates and the simplification of the tax system.

The three departments of the Ministry of Finance, the State Administration of Taxation, and the General Administration of Customs have officially announced the Announcement on Deepening the Reform of Value-Added Tax. The original text of the relevant policy states: From April 1, 2019, the VAT rate will be adjusted from 16% to 13%, 10% to 9%; At the same time, the tax rebate rate for export goods and services and cross-border taxable services will be adjusted, that is, the original 16% tax rebate rate will be adjusted to 13%, the tax rebate rate with the original tax rate of 10% and the tax rebate rate of 10% is adjusted to 9%, and a transition period of the tax rebate rate is set (Note: The transition period is only valid for goods and services and cross-border services with the original tax rate of 16% and the tax rebate rate of 16%, the original tax rate of 10% and the tax rebate rate of 10%. There is no transition period for goods and services and cross-border services with other tax rebate rates!) That is, the transition will take June 30, 2019 as the deadline.

2.Ministry of Transport: From April 1, the port charges for goods will be reduced by 15%

Recently, the Ministry of Transport of China and the National Development and Reform Commission issued a notice on the "Port Charge and Charging Measures", stating that starting from April 1, some government pricing and charging standards will be reduced and combined charging items will be reduced. Among them, cargo port fees, port facility security fees, pilotage (relocation) fees, and vessel tugboat fees for domestic routes will be reduced by 15 per cent, 20 per cent, 10 per cent and 5 per cent, respectively.

It is reported that the "Notice" will be implemented from April 1, 2019 and will be valid for 5 years. At the same time, the former Ministry of Communications "Notice on Matters Related to the Collection of Port Facility Security Fees" and the "Notice of the National Development and Reform Commission of the Ministry of Transport on Printing and Distributing the" Port Charge Charging Measures "were abolished.

3.2019Year 4From January onwards, these new textile standards will be implemented!

Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology approved 498 industry standards, including 225 chemical industry standards, 22 light industry standards, and 48 textile industry standards; approved 48 industry measurement technical specifications such as the "Rotary Fatigue Testing Machine Calibration Specification", including 5 textile industry measurement technical specifications. The new standard will be implemented from April 1, 2019. It is reported that the textile industry standard is published by China Standard Publishing House, and the petrochemical and textile industry measurement technical specifications are published by China Quality Inspection Publishing House.

4.The new version of the "Measures for the Assessment of Business Performance of Heads of Central Enterprises" will be implemented in April.

On March 7 this year, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council announced the revised "Measures for the Evaluation of the Business Performance of the Heads of Central Enterprises" (hereinafter referred to as the "Assessment Measures"), which will come into effect on April 1, 2019.

The new "assessment method" focuses on improving four aspects: first, the connotation of high-quality development of the table, and the construction of a high-quality development assessment index system combining annual and tenure from multiple angles. The second is to further improve the benchmarking assessment mechanism and strengthen the application of benchmarking in the international benchmarking industry. Third, we insist on deepening classified assessment and differentiated assessment, and highlight different assessment priorities and assessment index requirements for enterprises with different functions and categories. Fourthly, we will further increase positive incentives, strengthen "performance increases, pay increases, performance decreases, pay decreases", improve measures such as assessment incentives and tenure incentives, encourage exploration and innovation, and stimulate and protect entrepreneurship.

5.The Regulations on Emergency Response to Production Safety Accidents will come into force in April.

The Regulations on Emergency Response to Production Safety Accidents will come into force on April 1, 2019. According to the legislative spirit, legal principles, and basic requirements of the "Safety Production Law" and the "Emergency Response Law", the "Regulations" summarize and condense the long-term production safety accident emergency practice results. It is divided into five chapters and 35 articles. The system, emergency preparedness, on-site emergency rescue and corresponding legal responsibilities put forward norms and requirements.

The "Regulations" put forward institutional measures for the construction mode, construction method and construction requirements of the emergency rescue team, especially in the construction of the hazardous enterprise team, the measures are more rigid. After the team is completed, it must be equipped with necessary equipment and equipment, and the team personnel must be trained and have corresponding emergency rescue capabilities to ensure that they can play their due role in the accident rescue process. At the same time, Chapter III "Emergency Rescue" of the "Regulations" clearly stated that the people's government of the place where a production safety accident occurred should provide necessary logistical support for emergency rescuers, and organize communications, transportation, medical and health, meteorology, hydrology, geology, Electric power, water supply and other units assist in emergency rescue.

6.The "New National Standard" for Electric Bicycles will be implemented on April 15

The new mandatory national standard for electric bicycles, "Safety Technical Specification for Electric Bicycles", was released on May 15, 2018 and will be implemented on April 15, 2019. The State Administration for Market Regulation, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Public Security recently jointly issued opinions on strengthening the supervision of the implementation of national standards for electric bicycles to further standardize the management of the production, sales and use of electric bicycles.

In terms of strict production management of electric bicycles, the Opinions proposes that before the implementation of the new standards, enterprises are urged to transform and upgrade production lines in accordance with the new standards. During the transition period of the implementation of the standards, it is strictly prohibited to produce electric bicycles that do not meet the new standards and do not meet the old standards. Digest stock vehicles that do not meet the new standards. After the implementation of the new standard, the market supervision department should strengthen the management of compulsory product certification (CCC certification) of electric bicycles, strengthen the inspection of certification institutions and production enterprises, and ensure product consistency. In terms of strict management of the registration and use of electric bicycles, the "Opinions" require that after the implementation of the new standards, local public security organs must strictly follow local regulations to register and license electric bicycles. Encourage the adoption of intelligent technology to manage electric bicycles. Encourage wearing a helmet when riding an electric bicycle. It is necessary to organize special inspections of electric bicycle traffic order in due course.

7"Shenzhen's First Batch of Hazardous Chemicals Prohibited and Controlled Catalogue (Trial)" will be tried out in April.

According to the government bulletin, the "Shenzhen First Batch of Hazardous Chemicals Prohibited and Controlled Catalog (Trial)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Catalog") has been officially released and will be implemented on a trial basis from April 1, with a validity period of one year. According to the "Catalogue", some hazardous chemicals will be prohibited from circulation or restricted throughout the city. Through the implementation of prohibition, restriction and control management of specific types of hazardous chemicals, urban safety risks will be controlled and reduced from the source.

At present, Shenzhen is one of the few cities that have formulated the "Catalogue" in China, and has actively explored the fine management of hazardous chemicals. The "Catalogue" clarifies the hazardous chemicals that are prohibited from circulation and use throughout the city, and the hazardous chemicals that are allowed to be industrialized in central and non-central urban areas. Among them, the production, storage, operation, transportation and use of hazardous chemicals listed in the "prohibited part of the city" are prohibited throughout the city.

It is understood that, combined with the current distribution of hazardous chemicals in Shenzhen and the different needs of risk management and control in various regions of the city, the "Catalogue" is divided into "central urban area restrictions and control parts" and "non-central urban area restrictions and control parts". It is clear that 159 hazardous chemicals can be used, transported and stored industrially in the central urban area, and 789 hazardous chemicals can be used, transported and stored industrially in the non-central urban area.

8.4From January onwards, export enterprises in Ningbo can "run errands" to receive invoices.

According to the relevant person in charge of the Ningbo taxation department, in order to reduce the burden on enterprises, starting from April 1 this year, electronic ordinary VAT invoices will be used for export goods, services and services. Taxpayers can complete the "purchase and invoice" operation by themselves as long as they log in to the electronic tax bureau, from "run once at most" to "no need to run the whole process". The entire invoicing business will be shortened to less than 5 minutes, which can greatly reduce the taxpayer's tax cost.

It is reported that the implementation of the unified issuance of electronic VAT invoices for export goods, services and services will further speed up the collection of export invoices. At the same time, it can save social resources. Statistics show that more than 24000 export enterprises in Ningbo receive and purchase export invoices about 3800 times a year. If electronic invoices are fully introduced, it is estimated that 2.04 million pieces of paper can be saved each year.

9.National Railroad 4Month 10New train diagram will be implemented from

It is learned from the China Railway Corporation that starting from 0:00 on April 10, 2019, the national railways will implement a new train operation diagram to optimize the high-speed rail train operation plan. The running time of EMU trains from Beijing to Qingdao, Beijing to Lanzhou, and Lanzhou to Chengdu will be further shortened, the scale of general-speed trains will be maintained, and the cargo transportation capacity will be further improved.

According to the person in charge of the relevant department of the China Railway Corporation, the optimization and adjustment of the train operation diagram is a specific action taken by the Railway Corporation to thoroughly implement the central supply-side structural reform and the requirements of "adjusting the transportation structure and increasing the railway freight volume". The map has further optimized the transportation organization and created conditions for the scientific allocation of transportation resources and the improvement of the quality of transportation supply.

10.4Month 1Japan exports to Japan no longer enjoy GSP preferences

Recently, the General Administration announced that from April 1, the customs will no longer issue GSP certificates of origin and related Japanese import processing certificates for goods exported to Japan. Preferential tariffs, also known as GSP preferential tariffs, are universal, non-discriminatory, non-reciprocal preferential tariffs granted by industrialized developed countries to semi-manufactured goods exported from developing countries or regions, and are further reduced or even exempted from taxes on the basis of most-favored-nation tariffs. This policy is conducive to helping beneficiary countries increase exports and promote industrialization and economic development. The adjustment of this policy will have a significant impact on export enterprises, especially chemical and textile enterprises.

It is worth noting that labor-intensive Chinese products such as textiles account for more than 60% of the Japanese import market, and the cancellation of Japan's GSP has a particularly serious impact on the textile industry. Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Cambodia are my country's main competitors in the Japanese textile and raw material market. While Japan cancels my country's GSP treatment, it retains the GSP treatment of these countries.