Shaoxing Has Launched Ten Major Actions To Stabilize Foreign Trade, Helping Foreign Trade Enterprises Overcome Difficulties.

This year, by the sudden outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Shaoxing's foreign trade exports suffered a great impact. The overall situation in the first quarter was not optimistic. City Commerce Bureau statistics show that between 1 and February this year, the import and export trade of goods in the city was 31 billion 180 million yuan, down 12.1% from the same period last year, of which 28 billion 730 million yuan was exported, down 11.5% from the same period last year, and imports 2 billion 450 million yuan, down 18.6% from the same period last year.

As one of the engines of Shaoxing's economic growth, foreign trade plays an important role. If foreign trade is good, Shaoxing's economy will be fine. Faced with the severe foreign trade situation, since April 10th, the city has launched the ten major actions of "stable foreign trade" with the theme of "ensuring production capacity, protecting the market and ensuring orders".

Support network exhibition, vigorously protect orders

Under the impact of the global epidemic, the situation of developing the market and stabilizing foreign trade is pressing. Shaoxing's foreign trade enterprises have intensified their online exhibitions. In order to support enterprises to carry out digital marketing, our business, credit, finance and other seven departments jointly issued a series of warm heart initiatives.

During the epidemic period, we will expand the market through new technologies, create Shaoxing's "digital foreign trade", support online exhibitions, and organize "ten industry 100 exhibition 1000 enterprises" network exhibition activities, and do everything possible to win new orders. For the foreign trade enterprises with export volume of more than US $3 million last year, we will participate in the annual fee of the online trade fair organized by our business department, giving enterprises 50% subsidy.

Search for danger. In view of cross-border electricity providers, our city will make full efforts to build China (Shaoxing) cross border e-commerce comprehensive pilot area. Relying on the advantages of Shaoxing industrial clusters and professional market development, we will strengthen the "cluster manufacturing + cross-border electricity supplier" and "professional market + cross-border electricity supplier" mode, and lead the development of related industries to achieve a 25% increase in the retail sales of cross-border e-commerce networks in the whole city.

At the same time, I also encourage foreign trade enterprises to build overseas warehouses, providing support for the city's cross-border e-commerce enterprises to carry out overseas business. Our city will also strive to pilot the national market procurement trade, explore the global linkage of market procurement, and provide new support and growth pole for the city's foreign trade export.

Enterprises are the main body of foreign trade. This year, our city will launch a new round of foreign trade main body cultivation plan, and strive to increase more than 500 enterprises in the total number of foreign trade export enterprises all year round, and more than 500 export enterprises of cross-border electricity supplier.

In addition, we should increase export support to foreign trade enterprises. Guide qualified enterprises in the current situation, part of the products to domestic sales, and strengthen Taobao, Jingdong, and many other platforms docking, further expand product sales channels.

Comprehensive assistance to help enterprises tide over difficulties

In the severe winter of trade, the biggest demand for foreign trade enterprises is capital. This action is also a highlight of financial assistance to foreign-related enterprises. " City Business Bureau responsible person introduction.

Last year, there were 10177 import and export enterprises in the city. With an annual export volume of US $10 million, we draw a demarcation line with 777 enterprises on the line. For foreign trade enterprises of more than 10 million dollars, Shaoxing will set up a white list system for financial services.

At the same time, in financial services and foreign trade enterprises, the total amount of financing will be strengthened to ensure that the amount of foreign financing raised by the city is 5 billion US dollars this year, so that the loan amount of the foreign trade enterprises of the whole city will grow by more than 20% in the whole year, and the financing cost of foreign-related enterprises will be reduced to ensure that the foreign exchange designated banks of the whole year will be waiver and the cost of foreign-related services will be more than 50 million yuan.

At the same time, we should further increase export credit insurance and expand the coverage of pre export insurance. Shaoxing will further expand its coverage of the policy of small and micro enterprises, and achieve full coverage for small and micro enterprises with less than US $3 million a year, effectively helping enterprises reduce their foreign trade risks. In addition, it provides enterprises with receivable credit guarantee business and overseas clients credit investigation and evaluation service, and appropriately relaxes the conditions of insurance claims, giving priority to handling claims for export enterprises affected by the epidemic.

Comprehensive strategy to stabilize foreign trade growth

At the macro level, a number of measures have been launched to help foreign trade enterprises fight against the epidemic, involving customs, taxation, trade relief, employment and other aspects of protection.

In terms of customs clearance, enterprises have a series of convenient measures. It includes all efforts to ensure fast customs clearance of import and export goods, exemption from customs approval procedures for special goods, reduction of institutional costs of enterprises, standardization of enterprise charges, support for enterprises to make good use of processing trade policies, and extension of tax payment period.

In respect of tax rebate, we should implement the central export tax rebate adjustment policy, further enhance the speed of export tax rebate audit, achieve the same day's audit on the same day, and increase the intensity of tax rebate index adjustment.

In terms of trade relief, it will not only provide professional guidance for enterprises, but also support enterprises to take part in the conventional trade friction cases such as "two anti one insurance" and the United States 337 investigation. The lawyer agency fees will be 50% according to the actual amount of payment, and the standard of a single enterprise should not exceed 500 thousand yuan in a single case.

In terms of employment, we specifically encourage and support foreign trade enterprises to carry out vocational training under online and offline. For enterprises carrying out online vocational skills training, subsidies will not exceed 95% of the actual training cost. The subsidy fee for each training item will not exceed 1000 yuan per person, and the policy will last 3 months after the end of the epidemic.

It is reported that Shaoxing will further carry out the "three service" work of foreign trade enterprises, implement special classes, special personnel and special work mechanism, and implement the "Japanese research, Zhou Huishang, monthly meeting" work system. We should give full play to the role of the "three services" working mechanism, and assign enterprises stationed instructors to enterprises with an export volume of more than US $30 million in the past year.