Applicability assessment and compliance preparation for the Free Trade Port's zero-tariff regimes and its closed-border customs operation.
What this covers
- Assessment of intended imports against the applicable zero-tariff catalogue
- Review of the end-use and eligible-enterprise conditions that attach to each regime
- Customs registration and the filings a duty-exempt import depends on
- Assessment of whether processing activity could meet the value-added threshold for duty-free onward movement
- Design of the tracking the entity needs so exempted goods can be accounted for on request
- A readiness review against closed-border operation, covering what changes for goods movement
Our services
Catalogues, not a blanket ruleSeparate lists with their own eligible-enterprise and end-use conditions; the question is whether your goods sit inside one.
Hainan's duty exemptions run through catalogues rather than as a blanket rule — separate lists covering, broadly, production raw and auxiliary materials, transport vehicles and yachts, and an enterprise's own self-use production equipment. Each carries its own eligible-enterprise and end-use conditions. The practical question is rarely whether zero-tariff exists; it is whether the specific goods a specific entity intends to import sit inside a specific list, and on what terms.
End-use obligations persist after clearanceDuty-free goods are admitted for a declared use, and the entity has to be able to account for them later.
End-use is where the obligation persists after clearance. Goods admitted duty-free are admitted for a declared use by a declared entity, and the entity is expected to be able to account for them afterwards — that they are still being used as declared, still held by the party that imported them, still within whatever restrictions attached. An entity that cannot produce that account has a problem that surfaces well after the saving was taken.
The processing value-added routeA different proposition, turning on the actual production process — worth modelling before committing to a site.
The processing value-added route is a genuinely different proposition and is worth assessing on its own terms: where processing performed in Hainan adds enough value, the resulting goods can move onward without attracting duty. Whether a given operation can reach that threshold is a question about the actual production process, and it is worth modelling before committing to a site or a supply chain, not after.
Closed-border readinessWhat changes for a business depends on where its inputs come from and where its output goes.
Closed-border operation changes the frame around all of this — the regime is built on goods moving freely across the border into Hainan and being controlled on movement from Hainan into the rest of the customs territory. What that means concretely for a given business depends on where its inputs come from and where its output goes. We assess applicability against the catalogues in force, prepare the registrations and the tracking, and review readiness against the rules as published. Catalogues and conditions here are revised comparatively often, and implementation is administered by customs; we confirm current terms for each engagement rather than relying on a prior assessment.
Why choose HainanInc?
Applicability assessed against the catalogues currently in force
End-use tracking designed so exempted goods can be accounted for
Processing value-added modelled before a site is committed to
All Hainan FTP Incentives and Substance services
- Encouraged Industry Eligibility
- Substantive Operation Compliance
- Preferential Tax Position Support
- Zero-Tariff and Customs Readiness
- Park and Site Selection