Measures to stabilize foreign trade frequently ＂innovate＂ to help enterprises accelerate ＂going out to sea＂

CCTV News:This year, the global economic growth slowed down obviously, which brought great pressure and challenges to stabilizing foreign trade. However, after a series of comprehensive measures to stabilize foreign trade support policies, in the first eight months of this year, China’s import and export of goods were basically the same year-on-year. Among them, exports have achieved month-on-month growth for three consecutive months, showing strong resilience, and various localities and departments are also trying their best to increase the intensity of service enterprises.

Multi-party efforts to stabilize foreign trade measures frequently "innovate"

As a new foreign trade format with rapid development in China, cross-border e-commerce is an important way for many enterprises to obtain orders. Since the beginning of this year, in order to get more orders, many enterprises have chosen to enter overseas cross-border e-commerce platforms, but overseas platforms also have the risk of bankruptcy. How to solve the worries of enterprises? Let’s look at the practice in Ningbo, Zhejiang.　

The products of this foreign trade enterprise in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province cover furniture and household products, fitness products and holiday products. Since it was sold on an e-commerce platform in North America, it has exceeded $10 million in sales in the first year. At present, enterprises intend to enter more overseas e-commerce platforms.

Zhou Wenyi told reporters that most cross-border e-commerce platforms require sellers to open accounts in the platform. After consumers place an order for payment, it will take half a month to two months for sellers to withdraw the payment. During this period, once the platform encounters risks, the sales money of the enterprise may not be collected.

In order to enable the majority of small and medium-sized enterprises to expand the market with the help of cross-border e-commerce platform, China’s only policy insurance company — — According to this pain point, China Xinbao innovatively launched cross-border e-commerce insurance to provide security for the export of cross-border e-commerce products.

According to reports, the rate of cross-border e-commerce insurance is comprehensively determined according to factors such as insurance scale, account period, industry of the enterprise, and credit standing of cross-border e-commerce platform. Take Ningbo as an example, their insurance cost is equivalent to about 2% of the product profit. If there is a risk on the platform after insurance, China Xinbao will generally complete the fixed loss compensation within 4 months, and the compensation amount is 80% of the sales & mdash; 90%。

It is understood that since the pilot of cross-border e-commerce insurance in Ningbo, more than 10 enterprises have insured, and it is estimated that the guaranteed sales amount will exceed 1 billion yuan.

Take the initiative as a comparison standard to help foreign trade enterprises deliver orders

This year, some enterprises in China have also received many overseas urgent orders, but due to technical barriers in standards, the delivery of orders is not timely. In Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, the local inspection and testing department took the initiative to help enterprises solve the problem of inconsistency between national standards and international standards and remove obstacles for enterprises to deliver orders.

The products of this manufacturing enterprise in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province are widely used in offshore wind power, bridges and docks, high-speed rail subways and other fields. Since the beginning of this year, the overseas customers of products have been expanding, but many new customers require enterprises to provide product testing reports based on international standards, while the testing reports of these products were based on national standards before, which made enterprises difficult.

The enterprise found the local inspection and testing department, carefully studied these international standards after understanding the situation, and compared them with domestic standards. Through comparison, it was found that all the international standards involved had been adopted by national standards.

Liu Chang introduced that they took the initiative to face foreign customers, introduced the international standards adopted in the national standards one by one, and supplemented the corresponding explanations, so that foreign customers recognized the test report. At present, in the field of steel pipe piles, China’s testing and certification by national standards is equivalent to international standards, and it has been recognized and adopted in Canada, Australia and other countries.

Moreover, in order to complete the delivery of the order as soon as possible, the time for issuing the test report has also been greatly improved.

Set up special foreign trade credit to support enterprises to "go to sea"

Since the beginning of the third quarter, policy-oriented financial institutions have continuously increased credit support in the field of foreign trade, and helped enterprises to speed up their "going out to sea" by setting up special foreign trade credit.

At the cargo terminal of Shuangliu International Airport in Chengdu, Sichuan, the staff of this air freight enterprise are busy playing the board and sending 58 tons of e-commerce products to Europe.

Dong Zhijian told reporters that at present, the proportion of cross-border e-commerce goods they carry has increased from 10% last year to about 40%. In order to meet the cross-border transportation needs of e-commerce customers, we have been actively expanding routes this year, but now enterprises are also facing the problem of tight funds.

How to solve the financial problems faced by foreign trade enterprises? Not long ago, the Sichuan Provincial Department of Commerce and The Export-Import Bank of China Sichuan Branch issued a number of measures, including setting up a special credit line of 50 billion yuan for foreign trade and expanding preferential policies for import financing, to provide policy financial support for stabilizing foreign trade.

In response to the financial needs of this enterprise, the newly established 50 billion yuan special credit line for foreign trade soon landed its first credit business, granting nearly 2.4 billion yuan of credit to enterprises and issuing nearly 1.2 billion yuan of loans and import credit to foreign trade enterprises. With the support of financial policy, next month, enterprises will add freight routes from Chengdu to Liege, Belgium, which will not only support their own foreign trade business, but also help cross-border e-commerce enterprises to quickly "go out to sea".