General

Since this year, in the face of the complex and severe foreign trade development environment, Hebei has accelerated the transmission of a series of stable foreign trade policies to enterprises, encouraged enterprises to carry out R&D and innovation to improve product quality and competitiveness, tracked and solved the difficulties and problems existing in enterprises, and promoted the steady growth of foreign trade. Shijiazhuang Customs data shows that from January to August 2022, Hebei's total foreign trade import and export value will be 360.13 billion yuan, up 1.8% year on year.

Anping County, Hengshui City is a national silk screen research and development, production and marketing distribution base, and the products are exported to more than 190 countries in the world. Since this year, the local government has encouraged silk screen enterprises to accelerate the implementation of technical upgrading, introduce high-end equipment and advanced technology at home and abroad, and occupy the domestic and foreign markets with new scientific and technological products.

"We have successively obtained 6 million yuan of government subsidies for the introduction of foreign advanced technology and equipment. At present, polyester mesh looms and other equipment imported from Germany have been put into operation, and the annual production capacity of the enterprise has exceeded 600000 square meters. According to customs data, by the end of August, the export volume had increased by 18.6% over the same period last year." Chen Congshang, deputy general manager of Hebei Hehuang Network Industry Co., Ltd., said.

The production workshop of Hebei Gunai'an Hardware Manufacturing Co., Ltd., located in Yongnian District, Handan City, is extremely busy. "Our overseas warehouse in the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East region has just received several orders for fasteners such as expansion anchor bolts and drilling screws." In the opinion of Ma Chunxia, the general manager of the company, the overseas warehouse has become the "right-hand man" of the company in earning foreign exchange through export. According to customs data, in the first eight months of this year, the company's total export volume has reached 25 million US dollars.

According to Han Yonggang, director of Yongnian District Bureau of Commerce, Yongnian District has helped 38 fastener manufacturers enter the exhibition hall of overseas warehouse products in Uzbekistan for free since this year. According to customs data, by the end of August, the total direct export value of fastener manufacturers in the region had reached 706 million yuan, up 127.8% year on year.

In March this year, after receiving a call for help from Sun Tong, the manager of Jinshengyuan Casting Co., Ltd. in Ningjin County, Xingtai City, Xingtai Customs assigned a special person to take measures such as foreign negotiations and negotiations to help enterprises obtain the relevant certification required for export, and guide enterprises to introduce advanced production equipment to improve their self inspection and self-control capabilities.

"Now the level of self inspection and self-control of enterprises has improved, and we are more confident in future development." Sun Tong said that according to customs data, in the first eight months of this year, the company's export value exceeded 10 million yuan, maintaining a good growth momentum.

According to Zhao Renbo, director of Xingtai Customs, since this year, Xingtai Customs has conscientiously implemented tax and fee reduction policies and measures to help enterprises reduce or exempt customs duties and VAT of 2.52 million yuan when importing equipment. At the same time, 2818 certificates of origin were issued, effectively helping enterprises to reduce tariffs of about 5 million dollars from importing countries, and enhancing the competitiveness of export products in the international market.

Since July, fresh pears in Botou City, Hebei Province have been harvested in succession, and fruit export enterprises have stepped up sorting, packaging, inspection and other work. Yu Lixiang, deputy general manager of Botou Yafeng Fruit Co., Ltd., said that the company had 20000 tons of fresh pears in reserve, 3500 tons of them had been shipped to European and American countries, and more than 27 million dollars had been earned from exports.