Firmly stabilizing the foundation of foreign trade

Faced with multiple challenges such as insufficient driving force for global economic recovery, slowing external demand, and accelerated restructuring of global industrial and supply chains, China's foreign trade has accelerated its upgrading and upgrading. The import and export scale of private enterprises continues to grow, and new forms of foreign trade such as cross-border e-commerce and overseas warehouses are rapidly developing. The export value of the "new three types" of foreign trade, represented by electric passenger vehicles, lithium-ion batteries, and solar cells, continues to rise, demonstrating the resilience and vitality of a super large-scale market, laying a solid foundation for achieving the annual economic and social development goals. Next, we should focus on our advantages, accelerate the formation of policy synergy, and make every effort to promote stability and improve the quality of foreign trade, firmly stabilizing the basic situation of foreign trade.

Accelerate the implementation of detailed and stable foreign trade policies. Give full play to the comprehensive effect of stabilizing foreign trade policies, and further implement and refine relevant supporting policies around specific issues such as "cost reduction" and "convenience of income and expenditure" that foreign trade enterprises are concerned about. Make good use of the special funds for the development of central foreign trade and economic cooperation, and increase support for cross-border economic and trade activities such as overseas exhibitions, overseas marketing, procurement in China, and overseas investment. Give full play to the financing and credit enhancement role of export credit insurance, promote export credit insurance institutions to continuously optimize underwriting and claims conditions, and further expand the coverage of foreign trade enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises.

Effectively reduce costs for outward oriented enterprises. In response to the problem of rising raw material prices caused by unstable supply of goods and poor turnover of goods in foreign trade enterprises, we need to accelerate the implementation of various policies such as tax reduction and fee reduction, loan interest subsidies, etc., promote innovation in customs supervision models, and improve logistics clearance efficiency. Explore the establishment of a foreign trade enterprise exchange rate hedging incentive mechanism, support the establishment of special credit limits for foreign exchange derivatives, and introduce commercial guarantees to enhance the ability of enterprises to cope with exchange rate risks. Strengthen labor, energy, logistics and other guarantees to ensure timely fulfillment and delivery of foreign trade orders. Innovate financial products and service models, encourage financial institutions to provide global linkage financing support, and solve the problem of foreign trade enterprises being hesitant to accept orders from the source.

Actively promote the development of new forms of foreign trade. Encourage diversified entities to build overseas warehouses as needed, encourage overseas warehouse enterprises to integrate domestic and foreign resources, and extend services to the upstream and downstream of the supply chain. Explore the establishment of market procurement trade pilot projects in areas with high industrial agglomeration, good transportation conditions, and strong foreign trade foundation along the eastern coast. By optimizing the B2B direct export and overseas warehouse supervision models of cross-border e-commerce, promote the integration and development of market procurement trade with cross-border e-commerce and comprehensive foreign trade services. Support foreign trade enterprises to carry out "two in one" bonded maintenance business within the comprehensive bonded zone, and explore pilot projects for bonded remanufacturing of automotive engines, transmissions, and other products.

Strengthen and stabilize the foundation of the foreign trade industry. Improve the quality of exported products and services, explore the establishment of more foreign trade transformation and upgrading bases in the central and western regions, and highlight regional characteristics. Expand general trade exports, cultivate a group of leading export enterprises and large international traders, strengthen brand, quality, and channel construction, support regions, industries, and enterprises with conditions to establish brand promotion centers, and create export brands with international competitiveness. Actively support the gradient transfer of processing trade to the central, western, and northeastern regions, with a focus on building a number of national level demonstration zones for undertaking industrial transfer and key areas for processing trade gradient transfer. Support the construction of free trade pilot zones and collaborative linkage zones in eligible regions, and explore the establishment of pairing mechanisms. Expand the comprehensive demonstration zone for opening up the national service industry, as well as conditional free trade pilot zones and free trade ports, and take the lead in connecting with international high standard economic and trade rules.

Actively expand imports. Give full play to China's super large market advantage, increase the import of high-quality products from various countries, broaden the import channels of advanced technology, important equipment, key components, and important energy resources, and support the import of technology, equipment, and components required for domestic industrial transformation and upgrading. Strengthen international exchanges and trade promotion, leverage the role of industry associations and chambers of commerce as a bridge, closely connect suppliers and purchasers, encourage foreign trade enterprises to expand overseas business, stabilize old channels, and explore new channels. Accelerate the construction of national import trade promotion and innovation demonstration zones, explore the reduction of import tariffs on designated products, and improve the level of import facilitation. Vigorously developing the port economy, supported by various open platforms and transportation and logistics hubs, to create a carrier platform that gathers high-end resource elements, undertakes export-oriented industries, and links domestic and international dual circulation.

Close cooperation with global trading partners. Support foreign trade enterprises to participate in various professional exhibitions overseas, continuously improve existing online trade platforms, and create more trade opportunities. Optimize the layout of free trade zones, implement the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement with high quality, gradually expand the global network of high standard free trade zones, actively promote accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement and the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement, and deeply participate in negotiations in various fields. Promote the joint construction of high-quality development of the "the Belt and Road", improve the unimpeded trade network, support China EU trains to expand new routes, create new channels for international land and sea trade, expand the global layout of the Silk Road e-commerce, and build the "the Belt and Road" e-commerce market. Accelerate the innovation of foreign trade products, encourage innovative, green, and high value-added products to explore international markets.