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This year, foreign trade enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, are facing a series of uncertain factors such as poor logistics, order pressure, and the international environment. In response to this situation, the relevant persons in charge of the Ministry of Commerce, the Central Bank and the General Administration of Customs disclosed a series of favorable policies to be introduced at a briefing held by the State Council Information Office on the 8th.

Wang Shouwen, Vice Minister of Commerce and Deputy Representative of International Trade Negotiations, said that the Ministry of Commerce will guide all localities to introduce some local support measures for foreign trade difficulties, so that foreign trade enterprises can enjoy the Policy dividends achieved steady growth and improved quality.

Ministry of Commerce: Lead research to support the development of overseas warehouses

At present, the Ministry of Commerce is taking the lead in studying specific measures to support the development of overseas warehouses. Li Xingqian, director of the Department of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Commerce, said that multiple entities are encouraged to build overseas warehouses, and companies are supported to optimize the layout of overseas warehouses and improve their global service network. In addition, the Ministry of Commerce will continue to promote the innovative development of market procurement trade methods, and support foreign trade comprehensive service enterprises to play a leading role.

In addition to developing new business formats, helping foreign trade companies to reduce costs is the main focus of this round of policies. Wang Shouwen said: "We have organized relevant business associations to connect small, medium and micro foreign trade companies with large transportation companies, and directly arrange the supply and demand of shipping space to reduce the cost of shipping for foreign trade companies. In terms of reducing capital pressure, the Ministry of Commerce and the State Administration of Taxation have previously and other relevant departments have issued relevant policies on accelerating export tax rebates.”

In order to ease the pressure on enterprises to maintain orders, the Ministry of Commerce encourages foreign trade enterprises to innovate ways to negotiate with foreign customers online in China, and ship products overseas for offline commodity exhibitions.

"In the second half of the year, we will continue to hold the Canton Fair, as well as the Service Trade Fair and the Investment and Trade Fair. At the same time, we must improve the efficiency of online business, so that the personnel of foreign trade enterprises do not leave the country, the goods can be shipped to foreign countries for exhibition, and we can negotiate with overseas customers online. , to get more orders. In terms of export credit insurance, we have also taken some measures to encourage and support enterprises to get more orders." Wang Shouwen said.

PBOC: Improve policies for cross-border RMB business

RMB cross-border settlement and exchange rate hedging are issues that foreign trade companies are "urgent and anxious".

"At present, the People's Bank of China is improving the policies for cross-border renminbi business involving new formats such as cross-border e-commerce, and promoting the development of new formats of foreign trade. Overall, the ability of cross-border renminbi business to support the real economy is constantly improving." PBC International Zhou Yu, the head of the company, said. Data show that in the first four months of this year, the scale of RMB receipts and payments in cross-border trade was about 2.6 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 24%.

The People's Bank of China and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange have taken some specific measures to help companies deal with current exchange rate fluctuations. Zhou Yu introduced that on the one hand, financial institutions provide more exchange rate management products for import and export enterprises; on the other hand, foreign exchange transaction fees for small, medium and micro enterprises are reduced, reducing the cost of foreign exchange hedging (hedging), and reducing foreign exchange hedging deposits. occupied.

"The data from the first four months of this year shows that the scale of foreign exchange hedging of enterprises has increased by 48% year-on-year, and the number of enterprises that have conducted exchange rate hedging business for the first time has increased by nearly 10,000." Zhou Yu said.

General Administration of Customs: Further smooth import and export logistics

The recent epidemic has affected foreign trade logistics in the Yangtze River Delta region. Jin Hai, director of the Comprehensive Business Department of the General Administration of Customs, said at the press conference that, from the perspective of the Yangtze River Delta and other regional businesses accepted by the customs, the import and export of goods has recovered significantly, and the goal of maintaining stability and improving foreign trade in foreign trade is still well supported.

In terms of further smoothing import and export logistics, Jinhai said that the customs will expand measures such as "joint unloading" of shipping and inland water transport ships, "departure confirmation" for transit goods, etc. The pilot program of "direct installation from port" supports the development of railway "quick customs clearance" and other businesses, and improves the level of facilitation of import and export logistics.

In terms of supporting the development of cross-border e-commerce, Jinhai introduced that the customs focus on strengthening service guidance, so that the dividends of the policy will benefit more import and export enterprises. Since the beginning of this year, the B2B direct export of cross-border e-commerce and the overseas warehouse trade of cross-border e-commerce have grown rapidly, and the growth rate is significantly higher than the average growth rate of national imports and exports in the same period.