"From January to April this year, our warehouse vehicles reached a peak of more than 5,000 units, nearly double the year-on-year growth." Zhang Li, head of Tianjin Xinhang International Logistics Co., LTD., said recently in an interview, "With the gradual liberalization of the normalization policy, there are more and more models available for import customs clearance, and more and more people go to the warehouse to see and pick up cars. The parallel car sales market is gradually picking up."

Xinhang International Logistics belongs to Tianjin Free Trade Zone Senyang International Automobile City Group Co., LTD., is a comprehensive intelligent technology enterprise committed to network full coverage of parallel trade automobile (import, re-export, export). The company is located in tianjin Port free trade zone with a storage area of 140,000 square meters.

Data provided by the Tianjin Port Free Trade Area administration committee shows that from January to April this year, parallel imported cars to Tianjin Port increased by 98% year-on-year, and parallel imported cars through customs clearance reached 12,000 units, accounting for 63% of the total customs clearance volume in 2021.

Reporters learned that affected by the implementation of "national six" environmental protection standards in some parts of the country, parallel import car business was once affected. Due to the lack of environmental protection tests, many parallel imported cars were forced to backlog.

In order to alleviate this problem, in May 2021, Tianjin completed the first environmental protection test of the "National Vi" standard parallel imported car. As the first parallel imported car with national VI environmental protection information open, Mercedes-benz GLS 450 officially entered the market for sale. Subsequently, there are Mercedes GLE450, Mercedes G550, Toyota Sena, Toyota Tantuo, BMW X5, BMW X6, BMW X7, Land Rover, Cayenne, Ford F150, Lexus LX570 and other models through environmental information disclosure. In October of the same year, the policy of normalizing customs clearance of parallel imported cars was introduced. In November, the first batch of parallel imported vehicles with the "National sixth" environmental protection standard were cleared at chongqing vehicle import port, and then sent to the national market.

Up to now, with the strong support of the national competent departments at all levels, the customs clearance of "National VI" standard parallel imported vehicles has been basically completed. The normalized customs clearance policy will play an important role in promoting the rapid development of parallel imported vehicles. According to the requirements of the normalized customs clearance policy, arriving vehicles that are allowed to emit particulate matter up to relevant standards can apply for environmental protection information disclosure under the condition that OBD and other core experimental data are exempted. This means, through the "national six" environmental protection standard test of parallel imports of cars can be imported normally. As different models have passed tests and completed the disclosure of environmental protection information, more and more parallel imported cars have completed customs clearance and been put on the market.

Tianjin Port bonded area related person in charge said that the introduction of the policy of the normalization of parallel import vehicles, marking the formal transition to the "national sixth" standard stage of parallel import vehicles. Limited by environmental protection test, currently the americas, Europe and other regions of the car source, although the import volume compared with the same period last year has a large increase, but from the import peak is still a large gap. In the next step, Tianjin Port Bonded Area will continue to explore the expansion of parallel vehicle import scale, actively promote compliance rectification, bonded maintenance and other innovative businesses; Further standardize the sales market, improve the after-sales service chain, improve consumers' car buying experience.