Notice of the Ministry of Commerce on Issuing Several Policies and Measures for Promoting the Steady Growth of Foreign Trade
The people's governments of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and the relevant ministries and commissions of the State Council:
in order to implement the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, promote the stable growth of foreign trade, and consolidate and enhance the trend of economic recovery, with the consent of the State Council, thehereby prints and prints to you the "several policies and measures for promoting the stable growth of foreign trade". Please conscientiously organize the implementation.
Department of Commerce
November 19, 2024
1. expanding the scale and coverage of export credit insurance. Support enterprises to develop diversified markets, encourage relevant insurance companies to increase underwriting support for enterprises such as specialized and new "little giants" and "invisible champions", and expand the underwriting of the export credit insurance industry chain.
2. increase financing support for foreign trade enterprises. The Export-Import Bank of China should strengthen credit investment in the field of foreign trade to better adapt to the financing needs of different types of foreign trade enterprises. Banking institutions are encouraged to continuously optimize their financial services to foreign trade enterprises in terms of credit, lending and repayment on the premise of conscientiously examining the authenticity of the trade background and effectively controlling risks. Encourage financial institutions to increase financing support for small, medium and micro foreign trade enterprises in accordance with the principles of marketization and rule of law.
3. optimize cross-border trade settlement. Guide banking institutions to optimize their overseas layout and enhance their service guarantee capabilities for enterprises to explore international markets. Strengthen macroeconomic policy coordination and coordination to maintain the basic stability of the RMB exchange rate at a reasonable and balanced level. Encourage financial institutions to provide foreign trade enterprises with more exchange rate risk management products to help enterprises improve the level of exchange rate risk management.
4. promotes the development of cross-border e-commerce. Continue to promote the construction of overseas smart logistics platform. Support qualified places to explore the construction of cross-border e-commerce service platform, to provide enterprises with overseas legal, tax resources and other docking services.
5. expand the export of special agricultural products and other commodities. We will expand the export of agricultural products with advantageous characteristics, increase support for promotion, and cultivate high-quality development subjects. Guide and help enterprises to actively deal with unreasonable foreign trade restrictions and create a good external environment for exports.
6. support the import of key equipment, energy resources and other products. The Catalogue of Encouraged Imported Technologies and Products shall be revised and released with reference to the new edition of the Catalogue for the Guidance of Industrial Structure Adjustment. Improve the import policy of recycled copper and aluminum raw materials and other products, and expand the import of renewable resources.
7. promote the development of green trade, border trade and bonded maintenance innovation. Strengthen the third-party carbon service agencies and foreign trade enterprises docking. Actively develop border trade and promote the processing of imported goods in the border trade. We will study and issue a new batch of maintenance product catalogues in the comprehensive bonded zone and the second batch of bonded maintenance product catalogues in the free trade pilot zone with "two ends outside". We will support a number of bonded maintenance pilot projects outside the comprehensive bonded zone and the free trade pilot zone, and the implementation of the bonded remanufacturing pilot project with "two ends outside" in the comprehensive bonded zone.
8. attract and facilitate cross-border business people. We will improve the exhibition public service platform of trade promotion agencies and the digital platform of service enterprises, and strengthen the exhibition information service and external publicity and promotion. We will steadily push forward visa-free agreements with more countries, expand the scope of application of the unilateral visa-free policy in China in an orderly manner, expand the implementation area of the transit visa-free policy, extend the length of stay, examine and issue port visas for important business groups that come to China temporarily and urgently, and support business personnel of key trading partners to come to China.
9. enhance the ability of foreign trade maritime security, strengthen foreign trade enterprises employment services. Support foreign trade enterprises and shipping enterprises to strengthen strategic cooperation. We will increase support for foreign trade enterprises to reduce the burden and stabilize their posts, implement policies such as the return of unemployment insurance, guaranteed loans for start-up and discount interest, and vigorously promote the "direct subsidy and quick operation" handling mode to reduce the operating costs of enterprises. Key foreign trade enterprises will be included in the scope of enterprise employment service guarantee, and the guidance service of human society commissioners will be strengthened.
All localities and relevant departments and units of theshould, under the guidance of Xi Jinping's thinking on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, closely focus on striving to achieve the goals of economic and social development for the whole year, do a good job in promoting the steady growth of foreign trade, and actively cultivate new growth points of foreign trade in the long term. All localities should step up efforts to promote the implementation of policies, and major foreign trade provinces should bravely take the lead and give better play to their leading and pillar role. The Ministry of Commerce, together with relevant departments and units, should closely follow the operation of foreign trade, analyze changes in the situation, strengthen supervision and inspection, do a good job in the implementation of stock policies and incremental policies in the field of foreign trade, help foreign trade enterprises stabilize orders and expand the market, and provide strong support for the sustained recovery of the economy.








