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Huacheng's import and export data observation reported that recently, the Ministry of Commerce issued Several Policies and Measures to Support the Stable Development of Foreign Trade, which were deployed to strengthen foreign trade compliance, further develop international markets, strengthen security capabilities, and promote smooth trade. In fact, since this year, various departments around the country have introduced many measures to help foreign trade enterprises expand the market by guaranteeing orders. What are the innovations of local initiatives, how are the policies implemented and how are the results?

A series of policies have been put into full force

Since this year, Guangdong, the country's largest foreign trade province, has withstood the pressure under the impact of the epidemic and sluggish overseas demand, and a series of powerful foreign trade stabilizing policies and measures have been put into effect, stabilizing the foreign trade market. According to the Huacheng Import and Export Data Observation Report, from January to August, Guangdong's foreign trade import and export reached 5.27 trillion yuan, an increase of 0.6%, of which the export reached 3.34 trillion yuan, an increase of 4.9%.

Guangdong's foreign trade development has become more resilient, which is inseparable from the "Top Ten Projects of High Quality Trade Development" that have been continuously and deeply implemented since last year, including the Digital Trade Project, the "Guangdong Trade Global" brand project, the reform project of customs clearance facilitation, and the new trade format project. A large number of practical and hard skills have been introduced to smooth trade channels and tap the growth potential of foreign trade. For example, it is proposed to hold more than 100 "Guangdong Trade Global" and "Guangdong Trade National" online and offline economic and trade activities for overseas and domestic markets each year, respectively, to drive more than 10000 enterprises to participate and help enterprises expand domestic and international markets.

"We will firmly promote the comprehensive breakthrough of the" Ten Major Projects "of high-quality trade development, and promote Guangdong to become an international trade center with high concentration of global factors, strong resource allocation effect and global trade leadership." Zhang Jinsong, Director of the Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province, said.

The machines in the production workshop were roaring, more than 10 production lines were fully powered, and workers worked overtime to make a batch of orders for gasoline engine products sold overseas. This is what the reporter saw when he interviewed Shenchi Electromechanical Co., Ltd. in Beibei District, Chongqing recently. "Since this year, with the support of a series of government policies, the company has actively explored overseas markets. In the first half of the year, the international market revenue has reached 915 million yuan, an increase of 25.02%." Huang Yong, vice president of Shenchi Electromechanical, said.

Xu Xincheng, a member of the Party Leadership Group and deputy director of Chongqing Municipal Commission of Commerce, said that Chongqing has established a special class for stabilizing foreign trade, established a contact and visit system for 100 key foreign trade enterprises, a tracking service mechanism for 400 key foreign trade enterprises, and increased the coordination and scheduling of labor, electricity, gas and logistics transportation support for foreign trade enterprises in key fields such as automobiles in accordance with the principle of "one enterprise, one policy, one problem, one plan", It has greatly boosted enterprise confidence.

Zhou Xiaoyang, Deputy Director General of Jiangsu Provincial Department of Commerce, said that Jiangsu has successively introduced policies and measures such as "14 policies for cross cycle adjustment and stability of foreign trade", "16 policies for accelerating the development of new business forms and new models of foreign trade", and "12 policies for promoting stability and quality improvement of foreign trade" to fully stabilize the basic foreign trade market. In the next step, Jiangsu Commerce Department will also work with relevant departments to guide enterprises to apply preferential policies, implement free trade agreements such as RCEP with high quality, expand trade exchanges with member countries, hold multiple online matchmaking meetings, organize participation in 50 overseas international exhibition projects, and support enterprises to obtain more orders by "participating in exhibitions on behalf of others" and other means.

New models continue to expand

Kelendo Food Ingredients Co., Ltd. is an import and export enterprise of food additives with an annual output of more than 260000 tons, and nearly 15% of the orders come from overseas exhibitions every year. A few days ago, the International Food Ingredients Exhibition in Jakarta, Indonesia was opened. Affected by the epidemic situation of New Coronary Pneumonia, enterprises could not attend the meeting on site, and business negotiations were blocked. When the enterprise was at a loss, the commercial department of Lianyungang sent the policy of "timely rain".

Dong Haotian, the manager of the company's foreign trade department, said that the business department sent more than 80 kinds of products abroad in advance through the way of "acting as exhibitors" to enable enterprises to participate in overseas exhibitions with "offline product display+online real-time negotiation". The company received more than 40 customers in just three days of participation, and promoted an intentional order of 500000 dollars.

"For enterprises unable to participate in overseas exhibitions due to the epidemic situation, we have introduced the policy of" acting as exhibitors ", and also provided 50% support for booth fees; in terms of export credit insurance, the government department has provided 6 million yuan of support funds." Li Lei, Foreign Trade Department of Jiangsu Lianyungang Municipal Bureau of Commerce, said that since this year, the municipal commerce department, together with customs, bank insurance supervision, China Export&Credit Insurance Corporation and other relevant departments and financial institutions, has increased support for enterprises to explore the international market, export credit insurance and credit, and has issued more than 100 million yuan of credit loans.

New forms of business such as cross-border e-commerce have also become an important force to stabilize foreign trade. This year, Chongqing successfully held a cross-border e-commerce trade fair, actively promoted the cross-border e-commerce "bonded import+retail sub packaging" business pilot, promoted the "cross-border e-commerce+industrial belt" model, and provided new solutions for foreign trade enterprises to stabilize orders and expand the market. In the first eight months of this year, Chongqing's cross-border e-commerce transactions reached 29.19 billion yuan, up 50%.

"In the context of the normalization of global epidemic, cross-border e-commerce, as a new form of trade, has broken through the time and space constraints, opened the channels for enterprises to enter the international market, reduced transaction costs, improved transaction efficiency, and injected new momentum into foreign trade growth." Wu An, director of the Industrial Economy Research Institute of the Chongqing Academy of Social Sciences, said.

On September 11, Jin Xianglan, a merchant in Mocheng Street, Changshu City, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, finally relaxed after getting the customs declaration release form. "In the past, the goods were handed over to foreign trade companies as agents to order ships for export from Shanghai port. Due to port congestion, the shipping schedule was often delayed. Now the customs has introduced a new policy to declare and release the goods to Changshu Customs under Nanjing Customs in the form of integrated declaration of market procurement and trade. The goods can be shipped the next day, which is particularly convenient." The golden fragrant orchid said.

"From January to August this year, Jiangsu's market procurement trade received 24000 export customs declarations and the value of goods was 14.33 billion yuan, up 25.2% and 22.6% year on year respectively." According to the relevant person in charge of Nanjing Customs, Nanjing Customs innovated the mode of "sectional operation+inspection without meeting", took the initiative to dock with the national port customs, opened the dual channels of "customs transfer+integration" export customs clearance, and supported qualified professional markets, small and medium-sized enterprises and individual businesses to sail out through the market procurement platform.

Stable confidence in preferential policies

On September 8, Zhishen Technology Chongqing Co., Ltd. submitted an application for export tax rebate, and received 14 million yuan of export tax rebate the next day, greatly relieving the enterprise's financial pressure. "What is refunded is tax, and what is increased is confidence and confidence." He Ping, a financial staff member of Zhishen Technology, said that the Chongqing tax department had set up a "guidance team on export tax rebate policies" to provide personalized policy guidance for enterprises. Up to now, the company has handled export tax rebates totaling 120 million yuan this year.

In Chongqing, there are more than 2000 enterprises enjoying export tax rebate dividends like Zhishen Technology. Since this year, Chongqing's tax authorities have optimized export tax rebate services by improving classified management and streamlining submission of materials, helping foreign trade enterprises stabilize capital, orders and markets. According to the import and export data, from January to August this year, Chongqing's export tax rebates amounted to 16.085 billion yuan, up 11% year on year.

In Dongguan, Guangdong Province, a major foreign trade city, Molex Connector Co., Ltd. recently encountered a problem: as its raw materials come from many countries, it is difficult to determine the origin of the products when exporting. Dongguan Customs quickly organized business experts to solve the problems after they learned about them. "This has saved more than 2 million yuan in tariffs for our exports to North America this year, and further opened the North American market." Shen Penggang, the company's customs affairs manager, said.

According to the observation report on the import and export data of Huacheng, its "customs assistance" action not only helps enterprises win the "order defense war" through reasonable suggestions, but also relies on the Whampoa Customs Technical Center to provide technical support for enterprises' exports and guide enterprises to fully enjoy various facilitation measures of RCEP. From January to July this year, 141 problems of pain points and blockages have been solved for enterprises in the area under its jurisdiction.

"In order to alleviate the financing difficulties and expensive financing problems of small, medium-sized and micro foreign trade enterprises, Chongqing Banking and Insurance Regulatory Bureau actively guides financial institutions within its jurisdiction to strengthen cross-border financial products and services innovation, and reduce the financing costs of foreign trade enterprises by delaying the repayment of principal and interest to eligible small, medium-sized and micro foreign trade enterprises, granting preferential policies and preferential interest rates." Xu Jie, member of the Party Committee and deputy director of Chongqing Banking and Insurance Regulatory Bureau, introduced that from January to August this year, Chongqing's financial industry had granted 274.443 billion yuan of loans to foreign trade enterprises, an increase of 39.67% year on year.

"To continue to strengthen the construction of the supply chain system is the top priority for the safe development of foreign trade." Xuan Ye, the dean of the School of International Business and Economics of Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, suggested that relevant scientific research institutions should cooperate with real enterprises to make breakthroughs on the "choke" issue and build a stable market competitiveness. Huacheng Import and Export Data Observation Report.