The Ministry Of Commerce Will Interpret Foreign Trade Policies And Measures, And Will Timely Encourage Imports Of Technology And Products.

From the website of Ministry of Commerce, Premier Li Keqiang presided over the executive meeting of the State Council on July 10th, and decided to further stabilize foreign trade measures so as to expand opening up and promote steady growth and steady employment. The meeting pointed out that the key to implementing the stable foreign trade requirement is to further expand the opening to the outside world, and pay more attention to market driven reform and economic means to enhance the endogenous driving force of enterprises.

The head of the foreign trade division of the Ministry of Commerce has interpreted the background and main contents of policies and measures.

I. background

Since last year, the external environment of foreign trade has undergone profound changes. In accordance with the "six stability" work plan of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the Ministry of Commerce and various departments have issued a number of policies in a timely manner, and all localities have also actively introduced supporting measures to form a policy resultant force, which has played a good role in stabilizing confidence and stabilizing expectations. The questionnaire survey of the 125th Canton Fair exhibitors showed that 77.6% of the enterprises were satisfied with the implementation of policies and measures.

The CPC Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to the work of foreign trade, demanding further opening up to the outside world, creating a better policy environment for foreign trade enterprises, expanding import and export trade, promoting quality and enhancing export competitiveness. The Ministry of Commerce has attached great importance to the nationwide survey of "stable foreign trade, stable foreign investment and promoting consumption". The enterprises have reflected some difficulties and aspirations. Fierce competition in the market, increasing trade frictions, rapid increase in comprehensive costs, high financing difficulties and further improvement in business environment are still needed. At the same time, some good practices and good practices of foreign trade in some places have achieved good results and are worth promoting in the whole country. On the basis of a large number of investigations, we will study and put forward proposals for further measures to stabilize foreign trade with relevant departments and units, and have been deliberated and approved by the Executive Council of the State Council.

Two, main contents

This round of policy measures adhere to the problem oriented and precise strategy, and strive to effectively solve the outstanding problems and demands reflected by foreign trade enterprises. There are deep ploughing policies in the past, and some policy measures and good practices in some places have been absorbed.

The main contents include:

First, we should improve fiscal and taxation policies to help enterprises reduce their burden and increase efficiency. We will continue to lower the general level of import tariffs and expand opening up to the outside world. The export tax rebate rate of some products will be increased to ensure that the average time of normal tax rebate at the end of 2019 is within 10 working days. Establishing early warning system and legal service mechanism. We should timely encourage and encourage enterprises to expand diversified import channels for key parts and advanced technology and equipment.

Two is to strengthen financial support and reduce the financing cost of enterprises. We should keep the RMB exchange rate basically stable at a reasonable and balanced level and improve the convenience of RMB settlement. We should encourage financial institutions to further expand the scale of export credit insurance policy financing and continuously improve the quality and efficiency of foreign trade financial services in line with the actual needs of foreign trade enterprises. Expand foreign trade credit, and guide various financial institutions to increase foreign trade financing and insurance support for small and medium-sized enterprises. We should give full play to the role of export credit insurance, expand coverage, reduce premiums reasonably, develop new modes of new products, and study and put forward specific types of insurance that meet the needs of enterprises.

The three is innovative policy support measures to support the development of new formats. The introduction of the method of income tax verification and collection to adapt to the characteristics of cross-border electricity retail exports is clear. Expand the pilot area of cross-border electricity supplier comprehensive test area. Improve cross border e-commerce statistics. Taking into consideration the comprehensive and bonded zones, we will accelerate the implementation of the remanufactured and global maintenance projects that meet the requirements, and promote a number of bonded maintenance projects for processing trade outside the country. We will cultivate the third batch of import trade demonstration zones.

The four is to enhance trade facilitation and release the viability of enterprises. We should implement the publicity system of the list of port charges and prevent the rebound in port charges. Consolidate and consolidate the overall clearance time results. We will further simplify the regulatory documents for import and export.

Three. Next step

The most important task of the current foreign trade work is to carry out the policy implementation and do a good job in stabilizing foreign trade. The Ministry of commerce is strengthening horizontal collaboration and vertical linkage with all localities and departments to ensure that policies and measures are refined and landed quickly and are effective. At the same time, we need to ask the enterprises and the local authorities to reserve more precise and effective policy measures and timely launch. The Ministry of Commerce will continue to promote a higher level of opening to the outside world, strive to stimulate the vitality of market players, boost confidence in foreign trade enterprises, and strive to promote quality and stability in foreign trade.