Weekly highlights | 8.31-9.04 Collection of selected content on Alibaba International website

1. Cross-border E-commerce riding the wave -- 2020 Opportunity and Growth Report

Industry as a representative of the globalization, cross-border electricity at the beginning of the outbreak has also been a significant impact, but because the government for the outbreak of rapid response, China has become the new champions league first return to growth since the outbreak of major economies, in the second quarter GDP growth from one quarter to 6.8% positive was 3.2%, but due to the depth of 1 quarter of negative growth - 6.8%, GDP fell by 1.6% in the first half of the year. With the gradual recovery of the economy, the supply chain of cross-border e-commerce has basically recovered. Take the Pearl River Delta, one of the core e-commerce supply chains, for example. In July, Guangdong's industrial power consumption increased by 2.3% year-on-year.

2. China has adjusted the latest catalogue of technologies prohibited from export and restricted from export in four aspects

On August 28, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology promulgated the Catalogue of Technologies Prohibited from Export and Restricted from Export (Ministry of Science and Technology Notice No. 38 of the Ministry of Commerce in 2020). This adjustment of the catalogue has solicited the opinions of relevant departments, industry associations, industry circles and the public, involving a total of 53 technical items: first, 4 technical items prohibited from export have been deleted; The second is to delete 5 technical items that restrict export; Third, 23 new technical items that restrict exports were added; Fourthly, the control points and technical parameters of 21 technical items are modified.

3. Where is the certainty of cross-border trade in the second half of the Christmas order?

Affected by the epidemic, the trend of digital transformation of foreign trade to the online is becoming more and more obvious, which also forces enterprises to increase their own added value of goods, technology and innovation, and find competitiveness in the global supply chain system. In the Purchase Festival in September 2020, Alibaba International Website will strengthen the support of merchants to enhance the "certainty" of cross-border trade. Accelerating digital penetration opens up incremental space in cross-border markets.

4. In September, the cross-border e-commerce B2B export supervision pilot was expanded to cover 12 cities including Shanghai, Qingdao and Wuhan

Since July 1 this year, the General Administration of Customs has carried out cross-border e-commerce business-to-business, or B2B, export supervision trials in 10 customs offices in Beijing and Tianjin. Since the pilot program was launched nearly two months ago, a series of targeted regulatory facilitation measures have made customs clearance more efficient and convenient, and allowed cross-border e-commerce enterprises to enjoy more policy dividends. Therefore, the General Administration of Customs decided to further expand the scope of cross-border E-COMMERCE B2B export supervision pilot. 12 customs administrations directly under the central government, including Those in Shanghai and Fuzhou, began trials on Sept 1.

5. The WTO released a report assessing that the global agricultural trade has outperformed other industries during the epidemic period

The World Trade Organization (WTO) released the coVID-19 Crisis and Agricultural Resilience report on August 27, which assessed the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on world agricultural trade and concluded that global agriculture is performing better than other sectors in the epidemic. In response to the outbreak crisis, agricultural trade's initial response focused on ensuring timely food supplies, followed by a second phase of policies focused on repairing damaged agricultural product supply chains (8.060, -0.01, -0.12%) and helping agricultural producers cope with the "new normal" of the outbreak.

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