General

Foreign trade connects the domestic market at one end and the international trade market at the other. It is a key hub for promoting the "double cycle". Since this year, our city has fully implemented the major requirements of "epidemic prevention, economic stability, and safe development", took the initiative and made precise efforts to continuously empower the city's foreign trade enterprises to "go global", actively guided and promoted foreign trade enterprises to explore overseas markets, improved their competitiveness in international trade, guaranteed the smooth operation of the foreign trade industry chain and supply chain, and made every effort to stabilize the basic foreign trade market.

This year, the city's foreign trade work has shown a steady and positive trend. Huai'an foreign trade enterprises have moved towards a more distant world and opened a broader global market. However, since October, due to repeated epidemics, geopolitical situation and other factors, international demand has shrunk as a whole, and the growth of foreign trade in the city has slowed down. Foreign trade enterprises face the problem of decreasing orders from old customers and insufficient stock orders from new customers. Grasping the opportunity and going out to sea for "gold" has become the key to solving the dilemma for international trade enterprises.

To this end, the city's business system actively serves the front, spares no effort to help enterprises solve various problems, encourages and guides enterprises to take the initiative to "go global", build channels, expand markets and grab orders. Through the promotion and publicity of typical cases of foreign trade enterprises that take the lead in going abroad, the confidence of enterprises to "go global" is enhanced and concerns are dispelled. At the same time, "real gold and silver" subsidies will be given to support enterprises to participate in overseas exhibitions, and coordination with relevant departments will be strengthened to provide convenient services for enterprises and smooth the "sea going" channel. At present, more than 20 foreign trade enterprises have participated in exhibitions all over the world and signed more than 20 million US dollars of intent orders.

"It was very rewarding. This trip to Europe not only kept our old customers, but also made us meet many new customers." In November, Xu Baocheng, general manager of Huai'an Moka International Trade Co., Ltd., and his delegation went to Germany to participate in the clothing fabric exhibition, and took the opportunity to "stroll" all over Europe to expand the market and make friends with customers. Xu Baocheng told the reporter that the company is mainly engaged in the trade of sportswear, and 90% of its customers are in Europe. Affected by the epidemic, it is inconvenient to communicate. The company has not been able to visit old customers for more than two years. Nowadays, great changes have taken place in the external market. Exhibitions and visits are essential to understand the real situation. "A thousand emails is better than seeing each other. The effect of face-to-face communication is completely different from that of online negotiation. Customers are still excited to see us." He said that the company had booked the exhibition in March and October next year. "Of course there will be difficulties, but we are confident of achieving good results."

"This year, we have sent two groups of people to the Middle East and the Asia Pacific, which has played a great role in promoting foreign trade sales. This year, the company's export sales hit a new high, which is expected to reach 260 million yuan." Gao Yuqin, director of the international sales department of Jiangsu Carnation Weaving Co., Ltd., said that whether it is to stabilize old customers or expand new customers, international trade enterprises need to constantly "go out" and actively promote. "For example, for the Qatar World Cup, we have done a lot of work in the early stage to compete with products from Britain, Germany, Italy and other countries.