New Global Infrastructure For Cross-border E-commerce Logistics
The general trend of cross-border e-commerce B2C is irreversible. In the future, the era of transnational customization, flexible supply chain production and supply and sales with consumption-led production has arrived. The share of small-volume, multi-frequency online trade in the foreign trade market will continue to increase, and the trend of trade digitization will become increasingly prominent.
The new round of global trade requires digital and intelligent global commercial infrastructure as service guarantee. Cross-border logistics, which accounts for about 30% of cross-border e-commerce transaction costs, plays a pivotal role in the entire cross-border e-commerce transaction chain. Logistics timeliness is directly related to user experience and seller cash flow. The development of domestic e-commerce has given rise to the B2C integrated logistics model of warehousing and distribution, and has reconstructed the consumption scenarios of people, goods, and places. It is essentially a reconstruction of the original commodity circulation system, value division chain, and infrastructure. Cross-border e-commerce will set off a new round of reshaping of global logistics and even commercial infrastructure.
Take international air transportation as an example. In the era of traditional bulk trade, the main types of goods transported were pallets and cartons. However, in the era of cross-border e-commerce logistics, fragmented parcel orders have increased significantly, and more and more small-sized and light-weight packages have been shipped. E-commerce parcels have had a great impact on the supply composition of air transportation as well as the cost and revenue model.
In the overseas import customs clearance process, large quantities of cross-border e-commerce packages have now brought huge challenges to the customs clearance systems of European and American countries. Due to limited customs manpower and outdated equipment and systems, it is impossible to make efficient and reasonable arrangements for the declaration of value of individual packages and the assessment of tariffs. Taxation of e-commerce packages has become a global problem.
After a large number of Chinese cross-border e-commerce sellers' goods arrive in European and American countries, they basically require overseas warehouses to provide support for unpacking, distribution, labeling, temporary storage, transfer, shelving, distribution, returns, repairs, distribution, etc. services. Next, as the proportion of overseas warehouses used continues to increase, the digital transformation of ordinary overseas warehouses is also a trend.
Cross-border logistics
In the "last mile" delivery link, there is still a lot of room for improvement in the visualization of the entire logistics trajectory of many overseas express companies and the timeliness of delivery. Domestic e-commerce logistics models and intelligent technology equipment can be effectively implemented in batches. Copying and exporting will have good overseas market space. What is worthy of recognition is that currently, Di Sifang has also made relatively successful explorations in overseas logistics and distribution.
Recently, as my country joins the RCEP agreement, a larger intra-regional circulation covering core economies such as China, Japan, South Korea and ASEAN is taking shape. At the same time, an "Asia-Pacific intra-regional circulation + regional and external dual circulation" with China as the core is taking shape. The economic system is expected to gradually become a reality.
The process of increasing globalization of cross-border e-commerce is a process in which domestic e-commerce and logistics infrastructure and standards continue to collide and integrate with foreign countries. The interconnection of e-commerce and logistics infrastructure and the mutual recognition of standards will, in the long run, promote my country's commodity and service trade to participate in international competition and division of labor at a higher level.
Cross-border e-commerce will become a booster for the open, mutually beneficial and win-win economic globalization advocated by my country in the "post-epidemic era", and cross-border logistics will become the main artery for building global commercial infrastructure. A new wave of new global logistics infrastructure set off by cross-border e-commerce has arrived.
