The State Council deployed 13 measures in four aspects to promote the stability and quality of foreign trade

Foreign trade is one of the "troikas" driving economic growth and plays an important role in stabilizing the economy and promoting development.
Recently, the general office of the State Council issued 13 opinions on promoting stability in foreign trade. What are the signals of these initiatives? How will foreign trade enterprises benefit? How to implement it well? The reporter interviewed authoritative experts for interpretation.
Ensure smooth traffic and help foreign trade enterprises cope with difficulties and challenges
Under multiple pressures, in the first four months, China's total import and export value increased by 7.9% year-on-year, showing strong resilience. However, it only increased by 0.1% in April, reflecting that foreign trade enterprises are facing great pressure.
The opinions put forward 13 policies and measures in four aspects: ensuring the stability of production and circulation in the field of foreign trade, increasing fiscal, tax and financial support for foreign trade enterprises, further helping foreign trade enterprises grasp orders, expand the market, and stabilize the supply chain of foreign trade industry chain.
Zhao Ping, vice president of the Research Institute of the China Council for the promotion of international trade, said that since this year, the state has issued a series of stable foreign trade policies to promote the steady development of foreign trade through cross cycle adjustment and comprehensive measures. "Compared with before, this time more emphasis is placed on stabilizing the industrial chain supply chain as soon as possible in the short term, while taking into account the goal of stabilizing and improving quality."
Zhang Xiaotao, Dean of the school of international economics and trade of the Central University of Finance and economics, said that at present, it is at the key node to determine the economic trend of the whole year. The opinions further release the signal of stabilizing foreign trade, and accurately implement policies to promote the stability and quality of foreign trade.
The opinions put "ensuring the stability of production and circulation in the field of foreign trade" in the first place. It is proposed to "ensure the transportation of important parts, equipment and products" and "promote the smooth transportation of foreign trade goods".

"The difficulty of getting through the logistics blocking point is the top priority of stabilizing foreign trade at present." Zhao Ping pointed out that in the first four months of this year, China's imports and exports to major trading partners went hand in hand, indicating that there was a good demand for Chinese goods in the international market. Recently, the domestic epidemic occurred frequently, resulting in a short decline in the efficiency of the foreign trade supply chain and affecting the production and operation efficiency of enterprises.

Affected by the new round of epidemic situation, changes in the international situation and other unexpected factors, China's foreign trade supply and demand fell simultaneously. According to the data of the National Bureau of statistics, the new export order index of China's manufacturing industry fell to 41.6% in April.
The opinions proposed to further help foreign trade enterprises grasp orders and expand the market, including "promoting enterprises to make good use of online channels to expand trade transactions", "supporting the registration and certification of Chinese and Western pharmaceutical preparations and biological products of pharmaceutical enterprises", "supporting more regions to carry out second-hand car export business", etc.
"To solve the urgent need of foreign trade enterprises is to expand the market and grab orders." Zhao Ping said that participating in the exhibition is the main way for foreign trade enterprises to obtain new orders, and innovating foreign trade business is also an effective means to increase new orders.
Zhang Xiaotao noted that the opinions proposed to increase the support of export credit insurance in terms of underwriting coverage and shortening claim settlement time for small, medium-sized and micro foreign trade enterprises, which will enhance the anti risk ability of enterprises to expand diversified markets and promote the sustainable, healthy and stable development of China's foreign trade.
Maintain stability and improve quality and promote high-quality development of foreign trade
"Support qualified cross-border e-commerce related enterprises to apply for high-tech enterprises", "encourage innovative, green and high value-added products to explore the international market"... The opinions set out the key points for promoting the innovative development of foreign trade.
"It is the best choice for foreign trade enterprises to break through the current challenges." Zhao Ping said that cross-border e-commerce is an important direction and starting point for the innovation and development of China's foreign trade. Supporting cross-border e-commerce to declare high-tech enterprises is to extend the support policies for high-tech enterprises to the field of cross-border e-commerce and promote the innovation and development of cross-border e-commerce.
The comprehensive bonded zone is an important growth pole of China's foreign trade export, and the bonded maintenance business belongs to the innovative business of the comprehensive bonded zone.
The opinions are clear, cultivate a new batch of import trade promotion innovation demonstration zones, and strengthen the cultivation and construction of import promotion platforms. Support the gradient transfer of labor-intensive foreign trade industries in China, support enterprises to carry out "two ends abroad" bonded maintenance in the comprehensive bonded zone, and support the stable development of processing trade.
Zhao Ping believes that China's foreign trade bonded maintenance business has great development potential and high added value, which can organically combine goods trade and service trade. Stabilizing the processing trade in the bonded area and promoting the sustainable development of new trade formats in the bonded area are not only conducive to the short-term stability of foreign trade, but also conducive to the high-quality development of foreign trade.
Gao Feng, a spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce, said that the Ministry of Commerce will work with relevant departments to give full play to the driving role of high-level open platforms such as foreign trade transformation and upgrading base, cross-border e-commerce Comprehensive Experimental Zone and import trade promotion and Innovation Demonstration Zone, continue to optimize the business environment, continuously improve the level of trade liberalization and facilitation, enhance the attraction to global resource factors, and expand the space of foreign trade industry.
Pay close attention to the implementation and ensure that all policies and measures are implemented in place
The opinions require that all localities and relevant departments should attach great importance to stabilizing foreign trade and strengthen their work in supporting enterprises to guarantee orders. All localities should introduce targeted supporting measures in combination with reality.
The General Administration of Customs recently issued ten measures to promote the stability and quality of foreign trade; The Ministry of industry and information technology, the national development and Reform Commission and other 11 departments work together to promote the financing and innovation of large, medium and small enterprises; The Export Import Bank successfully issued financial bonds with the theme of promoting the stability and quality improvement of foreign trade... Anchoring the goal of stability and quality improvement and further promoting the quality and efficiency improvement of foreign trade requires the close cooperation of all parties and the continuous development of multiple measures.
Gaofeng said that the Ministry of Commerce will guide all localities to establish a service guarantee system for key foreign trade enterprises and solve the difficulties of foreign trade enterprises in a timely manner; Continue to promote the expansion of the business scale of direct passenger docking of international liner companies, strengthen communication and coordination with countries along international freight trains, and make good use of air freight capacity; We will continue to guide all localities to take the initiative to provide services, sort out and promote the resolution of common problems affecting the resumption and production of foreign trade enterprises and the stability of the supply chain.