Original title: Ministry of Commerce on the issuance of a number of policies and measures to support the stable development of foreign trade notice    

Provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and the people's governments of municipalities listed in the plan. Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, Ministry of Transportation, Ministry of Health, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, General Administration of Customs, General Administration of Taxation, General Administration of Market Supervision, China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, Immigration Bureau, Railway Bureau, Civil Aviation Bureau, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, China State Railway Group Corporation, China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation:

Opening up is China's basic state policy, import and export of strong support for stable growth and stable employment, to increase efforts to stabilize foreign trade. Agreed by the State Council, is now "to support the stable development of foreign trade a number of policies and measures" issued to you, please seriously organize and implement. Foreign trade provinces to play a better role in picking the beam, come up with specific measures, the relevant departments to strengthen coordination and services.

Ministry of Commerce

September 27, 2022

Support the stable development of foreign trade a number of policy measures

I, to protect the production and fulfillment of support for advantageous products to develop international markets. Each local strengthening of foreign trade enterprises epidemic prevention, energy, labor, logistics and other aspects of protection, if necessary, to be fully supported to ensure timely fulfillment of foreign trade orders delivered. (Local people's governments, Ministry of Commerce, Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Transportation, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, Health Commission, General Administration of Customs, according to the division of responsibilities) Combined with the practices of the relevant countries and China's actual market demand, study and optimize the conditions of medium- and long-term insurance underwriting, and increase the strength of export credit insurance support. (The Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Finance, the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, and the China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation are responsible for this according to their respective responsibilities.) Coordinate the use of special funds for the development of foreign trade and economic cooperation and other existing funding channels to further support small and medium-sized micro-enterprises in foreign trade to explore the international market. Accelerate the use of special funds for the development of foreign trade and economic cooperation in place. (The local people's governments, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Commerce in accordance with the division of responsibilities)

Second, actively support enterprises to participate in various types of exhibitions to capture orders. The localities actively utilize the special funds for the development of foreign trade and economic cooperation and other related funds to support enterprises to participate in various kinds of overseas self-organized exhibitions held by their own regions, other regions or trade promotion agencies and exhibition enterprises, and encourage localities in a position to do so to expand the scale of overseas self-organized exhibitions. The localities will strengthen guidance and support enterprises to improve the service level and work enthusiasm of personnel who participate in exhibitions on behalf of foreign exhibitors, and continuously improve the effectiveness of participation in exhibitions on behalf of foreign exhibitors. For the personnel of foreign trade enterprises who go abroad for exhibitions, business negotiations and other business activities under the normalized epidemic prevention and control, the competent departments of foreign affairs, commerce and immigration management agencies of each locality shall further strengthen the service guarantee. (The local people's governments, the Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Immigration Bureau, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade in accordance with the division of responsibilities)

Three, to do a good job of the 132nd China Import and Export Commodities Fair (Canton Fair) online exhibition. Expand the scope of exhibitors, in addition to the 25,000 exhibitors in the physical exhibition, support all enterprises that meet the eligibility criteria for exhibitors to voluntarily apply for participation. Extend the online exhibition time and extend the exhibition period from 10 days to 5 months. Strengthen investment attraction, comprehensively utilize multiple channels of publicity and recommendation, and further increase the number of buyers registering for the exhibition. Optimize the function of the platform, facilitate supply and procurement docking, and improve the effectiveness of the transaction. (The Ministry of Commerce is responsible)

Four, play the role of foreign trade innovation platform. We will set up a batch of market procurement trade mode pilot projects, import trade promotion innovation demonstration zones, and cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones. (led by the Ministry of Commerce, the relevant departments in accordance with the division of responsibilities) to add a number of used car export business can be carried out in the region. (Led by the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Public Security, and the General Administration of Customs in accordance with the division of responsibilities.) For the provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) that have outstanding performance in stabilizing foreign trade in 2022 and have made a greater contribution to the growth of the country's foreign trade, they will be given an appropriate preference in the subsequent arrangements for the establishment of additional pilot innovation platforms for foreign trade and the number of booths to be added to the China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair). (led by the Ministry of Commerce)

V. Further play the role of cross-border e-commerce to stabilize foreign trade. Introduce policy measures to further support the development of cross-border e-commerce overseas warehouses. Study within the year to start the second phase of the innovative development of trade in services guidance fund, to further drive social capital, and co-ordinate the use of special funds for the development of foreign trade and economic cooperation and other existing funding channels, to jointly support the development of cross-border e-commerce, overseas warehouses, and other new business forms of foreign trade. On the premise of legal compliance and risk control, further strengthen the support of export credit insurance for the construction and operation of overseas warehouses. Optimize the customs filing process, strengthen the transportation organization of China-Europe shuttle trains, and support the transportation of goods exported from overseas warehouses. (Led by the Ministry of Commerce, with the Ministry of Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the General Administration of Customs, the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, the State Railway Corporation of China Limited, and the China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation in charge according to their respective responsibilities.) Accelerate the introduction of tax policies to facilitate cross-border e-commerce export returns and exchanges. (Led by the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Commerce, the General Administration of Customs, the General Administration of Taxation in accordance with the division of responsibilities)

Sixth, to further promote the smooth flow of trade. Enhance the efficiency of port collection and transportation and domestic transportation, and ensure that imported and exported goods are quickly transferred and transported. To ensure the stability of the industrial chain supply chain. Continuously clean up unreasonable charges at ports, and strengthen the supervision of the main body of charges at sea ports, such as in-port and out-of-port yards. (Local people's governments, the Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Transportation, the Ministry of Commerce, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the General Administration of Customs, the General Administration of Market Supervision, the Railway Bureau, the Civil Aviation Administration in accordance with the division of responsibilities responsible for the issuance of ports of reference for the standard operating procedures for the import of goods in the foreign trade, and promote the ports to improve the quality of efficiency and good experience and good practices, to promote the ports and the local learning from each other to urge owners of enterprises and their agents as soon as possible to lift the goods to reduce the cost of customs clearance of goods. The ports should guarantee the smooth flow of the export direction. (The local people's governments, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Transportation, the General Administration of Customs, the Railway Bureau, the Civil Aviation Administration, the China State Railway Group Corporation in accordance with the division of responsibilities) Strengthening of customs clearance facilitation services for foreign trade enterprises to further enhance the efficiency of customs clearance of goods, and to achieve the arrival of goods in Hong Kong fast in and fast out. (Ministry of Commerce, the General Administration of Customs in accordance with the division of responsibilities) under the premise of ensuring the safety of epidemic prevention, make every effort to enhance the Shenzhen-Hong Kong land transport capacity and efficiency, to maximize to meet the demand for land transport enterprises. (Led by the People's Government of Guangdong Province and the People's Government of Shenzhen Municipality, with the Ministry of Transportation, the Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs taking responsibility according to their respective duties)