reply Policy "three ways forward" to stabilize the lifeline of foreign trade

Affected by the global spread of the epidemic, China's foreign trade is facing increased pressure. Reporter learned that, in order to stabilize foreign trade fundamentals, all departments are combined, blood transfusion, stop, during the three road support in hand, in the tax incentives, financial subsidies, financing support, rent reduction and foreign trade and economic development to support continue to overweight, and the enterprises will take measures to promote the capital as soon as possible, for foreign trade enterprises survive and looking to secure a strong support for the development of high quality.Since the outbreak of the epidemic, foreign trade enterprises are facing increasing financial pressure. "The current rapid spread of the epidemic abroad, the impact on our foreign trade enterprises is dual, the production end and the consumer end of the impact. Many enterprises in domestic outbreak, the effective control cost to overcome the shortage of artificial, material you all sorts of difficulties, such as buckle down production to work overtime to make up for the loss of epidemic shocks, but due to the spread of Europe and the United States and other major market at present, many foreign trade orders or cancel or delay the delivery, enterprise capital chain to meet big test again." Ministry of commerce international trade and economic cooperation research institute of foreign trade deputy director zhu caihua said in an interview.At a press conference on April 9, gao feng, spokesman of the ministry of commerce, said that at present, the resumption of production by foreign trade enterprises is proceeding in an orderly manner, with the recovery rate of more than 70 percent in more than 76 percent of the country's key foreign trade enterprises. The PMI's index of new export orders and the index of imports picked up 17.7 percentage points and 16.5 percentage points, respectively, from February. "But at the same time, the impact of the global outbreak on the world economy and international trade is becoming clear. According to our research on key regions, key industries and key enterprises, some foreign trade enterprises delay or cancel their orders in hand, and new orders are affected, especially in the textile and clothing and other consumer industries, which will suffer a big impact in the short term. The summit said.Reporters learned that in order to ease the financial pressure of foreign trade enterprises, the recent, including the financial, tax, financing, credit insurance and other support policies to the full force. Recently, the ministry of commerce, ministry of finance jointly issued, offered to give full play to the central government foreign capital efficiency, full support steady foreign trade base of foreign investment, foreign trade and economic cooperation development special funds to the affected by the outbreak of the larger field of foreign trade and economic cooperation shall be tilted, help enterprises to develop diversified market, encourage the development of trade in services innovation, lead to strengthen the credit insurance support, we will increase support for small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises.The executive meeting of the state council held on April 7 proposed to promote effective practices to promote the development of cross-border e-commerce, and at the same time implement supporting policies such as exemption of value-added tax, consumption tax and verification collection of enterprise income tax for cross-border e-commerce exports in the comprehensive test zone. For processing trade bonded materials or finished products sold in China, the tax deferred interest will be temporarily exempted before the end of the year. The pilot project that processing trade enterprises can choose to pay tariff according to imported materials or finished products for domestic sale will be expanded to all comprehensive bonded areas.The reporter also learned from the foreign trade department of the ministry of commerce that, in the future, the ministry of commerce will work with relevant departments to fully implement the policies and measures to stabilize foreign trade in response to the epidemic, and increase support in finance, insurance, finance and taxation, so as to solve the prominent problems faced by foreign trade enterprises such as rising costs and capital chain strain.At the same time, local governments are also actively promoting the implementation of policies. Among them, Shanghai provided a series of financial support to foreign trade enterprises that were greatly affected by the epidemic, guided relevant banking institutions to formulate special plans, provided special credit scale, focused on meeting the financing needs of core enterprises, and assisted the rescue of small, medium and micro enterprises in the upstream and downstream sectors. Zhejiang province is promoting the iteration and upgrading of the "order + list" monitoring and early warning system, and providing full-chain functions such as credit insurance, online tax refund and financing services to the online foreign trade enterprises. Jiangsu, guangdong, tianjin, Beijing, shandong and other places have also introduced measures to increase financial support for foreign trade enterprises from tax incentives, fiscal interest discounts, financing support, rent relief and other aspects.It is worth noting that in addition to the eastern provinces with foreign trade advantages, foreign trade enterprises in the central and western regions and northeast regions are also receiving more special funds and financial support. On March 23, import and export bank jointly issued by the ministry of commerce, notice, emphasizes the play to the functions of policy guidance and financial, for (cross-border) border economic cooperation zones and enterprises to provide quality services, to promote the solution to return to work and production capital turnover and expanding urgent problems, such as financing guarantee border trade industry chain, smooth operation of supply chain. On March 24, the ministry of commerce issued a document again, making it clear that it will increase the support of the special fund for foreign economic and trade development to the work of stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment in the central and western regions and the national economic and trade development zones in northeast China, and requiring the competent commercial departments at the provincial level to take measures to promote the early allocation of funds.Pang chaoran, an associate researcher at the ministry of commerce research institute, said the rescue measures went hand in hand from blood transfusions, stop losses and reduce burdens, providing effective support for enterprises. "Against the backdrop of increasingly severe global economic situation, these measures will effectively maintain the effective strength of China's foreign trade entities, stabilize the market, stabilize expectations and stabilize confidence, and help enterprises minimize the adverse impact of the epidemic."Pang detached from the proposal, further increase the bank capital supply, avoid the rise of short-term financing demand to occupy the long-term financing quota, to ensure the sustainability of major projects in the medium and long term financing. In addition, we need to expand financial support to effectively increase the actual and effective demand of the domestic market, make up for the gap in GDP growth, guide foreign trade enterprises to serve the development of the domestic market, ease the burden and adverse impact of the decline in foreign demand on enterprises, avoid production cuts and closures of enterprises, and promote the sustained and healthy development of foreign trade.Zhu caihua also believes that in the short term to adopt multi-channel financial support policy to help stabilize the basic trade plate, especially to support the struggling enterprises in the line of life and death, so that it can survive in the epidemic. In the long run, it is more important to guide enterprises to change their thinking and turn crisis into opportunity. "The outbreak has brought great pressure to Chinese enterprises, but the pressure can also let enterprises out of their comfort zone, through 'forward looking' thinking, relying on technology, mode, format and management innovation, 'press out' a group of stronger Chinese foreign trade enterprises, to promote high-quality development of foreign trade.