Recently, the General Administration of Customs, together with 24 departments including the Cyberspace Administration of China, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the National Development and Reform Commission, jointly deployed a six-month special action plan for cross-border trade facilitation in 2026. Compared to last year, the pilot cities for this year's special action have further expanded their encirclement and capacity, adding 20 cities including Hohhot, Changchun, Suzhou, Jinhua, Quanzhou, Nanchang, Yantai, Wuhan, Changsha, Zhuhai, Nanning, Kunming, and Xi'an, with a total of 45 cities participating. What does this mean for cross-border logistics practitioners?

This special action focuses on optimizing and upgrading goods trade, vigorously developing service trade, innovating and developing digital trade and green trade, and other key tasks. It has launched a new round of 29 facilitation policy measures to help improve the quality and efficiency of foreign trade. The core highlights include: deepening the innovation of import and export customs clearance supervision mode, such as the "fresh food consolidation" model first launched in Hunan, which includes various types of agricultural and food products such as vegetables, fruits, poultry and eggs in the consolidation scope, and export enterprises can flexibly organize goods according to market demand. Improving cross-border logistics transportation efficiency: Xi'an has launched the first nationwide "multimodal transport+TIR international road cross-border transportation", achieving "one customs declaration, one sealing, and one container to the end" for the entire domestic and international process. Strengthen the construction of smart ports: promote more ports to achieve digital supervision and intelligent customs clearance, and improve overall customs clearance efficiency.

For cross-border sellers and logistics companies, the implementation of this special action will have three impacts:

1. Further increase the clearance time

The "fresh food consolidation" model has reduced the single transportation cost of Hunan agricultural product export enterprises by 10% and shortened the customs clearance time by 2-3 hours. This regulatory innovation is expected to be promoted to more categories and ports in the future.

2. More flexible transportation modes

The combination of "multimodal transport+TIR" allows goods to be transported from one vehicle to the end in the domestic segment, while the international segment enjoys convenient customs clearance between the contracting countries of the TIR Convention, without the need for reloading or repeated inspections throughout the process. This is a significant benefit for road transportation in Central Asia and Europe.

3. Green trade becomes a new track

This special action has listed green trade as one of the key tasks. On March 16th, the first international flight in China to refuel "domestically produced bio aviation fuel+bonded aviation kerosene" at domestic airports took off from Chengdu. With the mandatory implementation of international aviation carbon offsetting in 2027, green logistics capabilities will become a new competitive advantage.

The expansion of pilot cities to 45 means that more ports will enjoy the cumulative effect of facilitation policies.

Changsheng International Logistics has established service networks in multiple newly added pilot cities. Based on the collaborative capabilities of multiple ports across the country and the intelligent logistics system, we can help customers: choose the optimal export port according to the new policy and enjoy customs clearance convenience; Customize combined transportation solutions such as "multimodal transport+TIR" to improve transportation efficiency; Proactively respond to the trend of green trade and optimize the carbon footprint of the supply chain

In 2026, the curtain of cross-border trade facilitation has been lifted. We will also continue to monitor policy trends and convert each round of dividends into perceptible efficiency improvements for customers.