Make a real move to stabilize foreign trade! In the first eight months of this year, China’s import and export of goods was basically the same as that of the same period last year.

　　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 achieved month-on-month growth for three consecutive months, showing strong resilience. All localities and departments are also trying 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, look at the practice of Ningbo, Zhejiang.

　　This foreign trade enterprise in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province covers furniture, household goods, fitness products, holiday products and so on. 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, Managing Director of Ningbo Excelle Group:In the near future, we plan to enter 2 ~ 3 new platforms in North America to further expand new overseas markets.

　　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 before the seller can withdraw the payment. During this period, once the platform encounters risks, the sales of enterprises may not be collected.

　　In order to enable the majority of small and medium-sized enterprises to boldly expand the market with the help of cross-border e-commerce platforms. China Xinbao, the only policy insurance company in China, innovatively launched cross-border e-commerce insurance to provide security for the export of cross-border e-commerce products.

　　Lai Yi, Account Manager of China Xinbao Ningbo Branch:The new cross-border e-commerce insurance is based on the sales agreement between cross-border e-commerce enterprises and platforms in China, covering risks such as the bankruptcy of platforms, ensuring the safety of the whole fund with a small premium, and allowing small and medium-sized enterprises to expand overseas markets with confidence.

　　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 loss assessment within 4 months, and the amount of compensation will be 80%-90% of the sales.

　　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. (Pick up the film)

　　Yangzhou, Jiangsu, a manufacturing enterprise, its products are widely used in offshore wind power, bridges and docks, high-speed trains and subways. Since the beginning of this year, the overseas customers of products have been expanding, but many new customers require enterprises to provide product inspection reports based on international standards. Previously, the test reports of these products were based on national standards, which made the enterprise difficult.

　　Li Haijun, General Manager of Jiangsu Juxin Petroleum Steel Pipe Co., Ltd.:Some are against American API-2B certification standards, and some are against Canadian CWB certification standards, including EU CE certification standards.

　　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, Engineer of Yangzhou Inspection and Testing Center:Both the content and the structure are the same, and there is no substantial difference. It shows their foreign customers the rationality of using national standards as the testing basis, and eliminates their foreign customers’ misunderstanding and doubts about our national standard system.

　　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.

　　Liu Chang, Engineer of Yangzhou Inspection and Testing Center:Our center has issued more than 1,500 test reports for foreign trade enterprises, helping foreign trade enterprises to deliver orders and realize income generation of about 300 million yuan.

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

　　Since the third quarter, policy-oriented financial institutions have continuously increased credit support in the field of foreign trade.

　　Help enterprises to speed up going out to sea by setting up special credit for foreign trade.

　　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, Business Manager of Aviation Logistics Department of Sichuan International Air Freight Development Co., Ltd.:Today’s flight is to London, which is a new route we opened this year.

　　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, they 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-based financial support for stabilizing foreign trade.

　　Wu Qi, Vice President of The Export-Import Bank of China Sichuan Branch:We set up a professional team to analyze the demands of enterprises one by one. For example, some enterprises need short-term funds, some enterprises need to resume orders, others need to guard against exchange rate risks, and some even need to help solve cross-border customs clearance and logistics problems. When the problem is identified, the effect of serving foreign trade naturally comes out.

　　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".