Deng guangwen, deputy director of naning customs, said Wednesday that 1045 foreign trade enterprises with an annual import and export value of more than 20 million yuan in guangxi have returned to work as the initial progress in the prevention and control of the epidemic has been further consolidated.

In the first quarter of this year, guangxi's foreign trade dropped 8.7 percent to 92.58 billion yuan, deng guangwen said at a news conference held by nanning customs. However, imports and exports in March fell 5.6% to 41.25 billion yuan, 5.5 percentage points lower than the previous two months, with imports up 11.3%.

Among the major trading partners, asean is still the largest trading partner of guangxi, with a significant drop to the United States and the European Union. Of this, guangxi's imports and exports to Vietnam totaled 32.82 billion yuan, down 9%. Imports and exports to Thailand reached 6.32 billion yuan, up 18.5%. Imports and exports to Hong Kong totaled 11.35 billion yuan, up 4.7%. Imports and exports to Australia reached 4.15 billion yuan, up 15.7%. Imports and exports to the United States and the European Union (27 countries, excluding the United Kingdom) were 3.62 billion yuan and 3.11 billion yuan, down 31.7% and 28.2%, respectively.

Due to the severe situation of the epidemic in foreign countries, the export of epidemic prevention materials surged. Nanning customs supported enterprises to open up two temporary postal routes for land and sea transportation to ensure entry and exit customs clearance. In march, cross-border e-commerce in guangxi boomed, with imports and exports of 63.58 million yuan, up 4.7 times.

In addition, from the statistical data, guangxi's foreign trade also showed a decrease in border trade, processing trade reduced to increase; The decline of private enterprises is smaller, the proportion of further increase. The structure of import and export commodities is optimized, and the mechanical and electrical products play a significant role.

On the reasons for the decline in guangxi's foreign trade, nanning customs statistical analysis department director xie jin analysis pointed out that this is mainly due to the potential of the domestic market continues to release the driving demand for imports, the new western land and sea channels, the smooth operation of china-europe freight train, cross-border e-commerce to achieve a doubling form a new growth advantage and other factors.

In the first quarter, 69,000 containers were imported and exported from beibu gulf port (qinzhou port, beihai port and fangcheng port), up 6.5% against the trend. In march, 32,000 containers were imported and exported, up 86.6% month-on-month. In march, imports and exports of railway transportation in guangxi reached 240 million yuan, an increase of 1.8 times. Pingxiang railway port, as an important node for the import and export of the southern railway of the new land and sea corridor in the west, has strongly promoted the rapid development of china-asean trade.

Xie admitted that at present, the overseas epidemic is still spreading, the downside risks of the world economy are intensifying, uncertainties and destabilizing factors are significantly increasing, the cancellation or delay of foreign trade orders and the reduction of new orders are gradually emerging, and the difficulties faced by foreign trade enterprises in import and export should not be underestimated.

However, xie jin found in the recent research, some enterprises in guangxi trade route widening, international market layout and other phenomena. At the same time, with the recent guangxi and nanning customs has issued a series of measures to stabilize the development of foreign trade, policy dividends continue to release, xie jin believes that this will strongly boost the steady growth of foreign trade.

Nanning customs comprehensive business department director moli introduced, the customs has issued "anti-epidemic, stable foreign trade" two batches of a total of 24 measures, in order to speed up the port inspection, optimize procedures, implement the new tax policy, innovative supervision model, etc., to boost guangxi enterprises to speed up the resumption of work and production. During the epidemic prevention and control period, the customs clearance operation of guangxi port was stable, and the import and export value increased steadily compared with the same period last year. Up to March 31, guangxi has the actual import and export business of foreign trade enterprises to resume production rate of nearly 100%.

Nanning haanguan also held an interpretation activity of anti-epidemic and stable foreign trade support measures and policies on the same day, communicated with import and export enterprises online, and answered relevant questions in real time.