China’s foreign trade growth rate continues to rise.

In July, imports and exports increased by 16.6% year on year.
China’s foreign trade growth rate continues to rise.

The General Administration of Customs recently released data. In the first seven months of this year, the total import and export value of China’s goods trade was 23.6 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.4%. Among them, the export was 13.37 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.7%; Imports were 10.23 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.3%; The trade surplus was 3.14 trillion yuan, an increase of 62.1%.

Since the beginning of this year, China has effectively coordinated epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, and foreign trade import and export has overcome many adverse effects such as the tightening external environment and the short-term impact of the epidemic. The cumulative growth rate in the first seven months has reached double digits.

"In the month of July, China’s import and export increased by 16.6% year-on-year, continuing the upward trend of foreign trade growth since May and making positive contributions to stabilizing the macroeconomic market." Li Kuiwen, director of the Statistics and Analysis Department of the General Administration of Customs, said.

The Yangtze River Delta has withstood the test.

In July, it increased by 25.7% year-on-year, contributing more than 50% to the national foreign trade growth.

Walking into the distribution warehouse of Fancheng Container Supervision Station in Baoshan District, Shanghai, the staff are busy loading, unpacking, checking and lifting all kinds of goods of different sizes.

"Since June, the volume of containers and the volume of goods picked up by enterprises have increased substantially, and logistics is now running at full capacity." Shanghai Wusong Customs officers Wei Jianhua and Li Min have been busy in the warehouse all morning. They told reporters that in June, Wusong Customs supervised and distributed 37,000 batches of goods, up 46.3% year-on-year and 3.7 times month-on-month.

The data shows that in the first seven months, the import and export of three provinces and one city in the Yangtze River Delta region increased by 11.7% year-on-year, 2.5 percentage points faster than the growth rate in the first half of the year; In July, it increased by 25.7% year-on-year, contributing more than 50% to the national foreign trade growth.

Stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment is related to the overall economic situation and the overall employment situation. Since the beginning of this year, China has introduced a series of measures to stabilize the industrial chain supply chain and help foreign trade enterprises to ensure orders, markets and confidence.

In the first half of the year, Shanghai’s foreign trade withstood the test of the epidemic. With the acceleration of resumption of work and production, the supply chain of the industrial chain tends to be repaired, social operation gradually returns to normal, and imports and exports continue to stabilize and rebound. In June, foreign trade enterprises went all out, and the import and export of Shanghai and Shanghai ports both turned from negative to positive, with year-on-year growth rates of 9.6% and 2.8% respectively, up 46.2 and 41 percentage points respectively from April.

After entering the stage of economic recovery and revitalization, the relevant departments in Shanghai further consolidated and optimized the field operation mode of foreign trade, and promoted the inspection measures during the epidemic period such as "unaccompanied inspection" and "joint inspection" to solidify into a normalization mechanism, thus enhancing the satisfaction and sense of acquisition of foreign trade enterprises.

On July 12th, at the dawn of the night in haitong international Automobile Terminal, Shanghai, 400 BYD brand new energy vehicles, under the protection of Shanghai Waigang Customs, sailed on the ro-ro wheel, accompanied by the roar of the whistle, and were exported to the New Zealand market.

"This batch of export vehicles has a large number. When they all arrive at Haitong Wharf, there is only less than 4 hours left before the departure time of the equipped ro-ro wheels. We will open up a’ green channel’ as soon as we understand the situation. " Chen Jia, chief of the Inspection Section 9 of Shanghai Waigang Customs, said that with the full cooperation of Waigang Customs and the port terminal, it took only two hours to complete the inspection and release process.

In the first half of this year, Shanghai Waigaoqiao Port exported a total of 465,000 domestic cars, an increase of 30.4% over the same period last year. In the month of June, 71,000 domestic automobiles were exported, up 18.2% from the previous month, exceeding the level of the same period last year.

In order to further solve the outstanding problems in personnel entry and exit, factor guarantee and other aspects of foreign-funded enterprises, the General Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Government recently issued the "Ten Measures for Supporting and Stabilizing Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment" to ensure the smooth "going out" and "bringing in". Zhejiang will further expand the coverage of export credit insurance and strive to achieve full coverage of related enterprises. According to data from Hangzhou Customs, in the first half of this year, the import and export of Zhejiang Province was 2.26 trillion yuan, up 17.3% year-on-year, of which 1.66 trillion yuan was exported, up 20.3%, and 594.74 billion yuan was imported, up 9.8%.

RCEP brings new opportunities.

In July, China’s import and export to RCEP trading partners increased by 18.8% year on year.

"The policy dividend brought by RCEP helps us to explore overseas markets. In the next step, we will further understand the relevant requirements of other RCEP member countries such as Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam for the import of our products and strive to sell our products to these countries." Zhang Hao, the person in charge of Inner Mongolia Aerospace High-tech Industry Co., Ltd. said.

Recently, a batch of 115 tons of seabuckthorn puree products with a value of 1.62 million yuan applied for the certificate of origin of RCEP. With this certificate, these products will enjoy a tariff preference of more than 30,000 yuan in Japan. Since the beginning of this year, the company has exported 2,556 tons of seabuckthorn series products such as seabuckthorn puree and seabuckthorn capsules, with a value of 35.16 million yuan.

On January 1 this year, RCEP came into effect, which further deepened regional economic interconnection and trade and investment cooperation, provided new kinetic energy for regional economic recovery and development, and became an important force to promote the high-quality development of foreign trade.

Data show that in the first seven months, ASEAN, the European Union, the United States and South Korea were China’s top four trading partners, with imports and exports of 3.53 trillion yuan, 3.23 trillion yuan, 2.93 trillion yuan and 1.39 trillion yuan, up by 13.2%, 8.9%, 11.8% and 8.9% respectively. In the same period, China’s trade with countries along the "Belt and Road" became closer, with imports and exports increasing by 19.8% year-on-year, and 7.5% year-on-year with other 14 members of RCEP. In the month of July, China’s import and export to RCEP trading partners was 1.17 trillion yuan, up 18.8% year-on-year, driving the overall import and export growth by 5.6 percentage points.

Hohhot Customs optimizes customs clearance supervision measures around the construction of agricultural and livestock products production bases, supports enterprises with special agricultural products to make good use of RCEP preferential policies and expand relevant markets. In the first half of the year, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region exported 800 million yuan of agricultural products to RCEP trading partners, up 17.7% year-on-year.

Nanjing Customs comprehensively uses "cloud presentation", webcasting, online interviews, government hotline interaction and other forms to provide customized training for enterprises to help enterprises make good use of RCEP preferential tariff policies. From January to July, Nanjing Customs issued 42,900 RCEP certificates of origin for enterprises with a visa amount of 15.237 billion yuan.

"The import tax rate of formic acid products we export in Japan has been reduced from 4.3% to zero tariff, and the tax rate of hexafluoropropylene has been reduced from 3.1% to 0.3%." Zhang Qingguo, director of the sales management department of Luxi Chemical Group, said that the reduction of tariff cost greatly enhanced the competitiveness of enterprises in the Japanese market, and the company’s exports to Japan increased by 30% in the first half of this year.

According to statistics, in the first half of the year, Shandong Customs and CCPIT issued RCEP certificates of origin for 59,000 batches of export goods, with the export value of 18.39 billion yuan.

Policy measures to accelerate the landing.

The number of foreign trade enterprises with import and export performance in the first seven months increased by 5.8% year-on-year.

On July 19th, 100 standard containers of LED lamps, toys, clothing, shoes and other "made in Greater Bay Area" goods were driven out of Guangzhou International Port by a China-Europe train. In the first half of this year, Guangzhou Customs supervised a total of 133 trains in China and Europe, exceeding the total number of shipments in 2021 six months ahead of schedule, with a value of about 3.041 billion yuan, up by 95% and 48% respectively.

Affected by the epidemic, the number of international logistics and transportation jams has increased, and foreign trade entities are under pressure at both ends. All localities and departments conscientiously implement the deployment requirements for helping enterprises to bail out difficulties and solve problems for enterprises with tangible measures.

Relevant departments in Guangdong continue to improve the efficiency of inbound and outbound logistics, adhere to services such as "24-hour reservation for customs clearance" and "special window for train handling", facilitate enterprises to go through customs formalities, and at the same time strengthen guidance for enterprises to optimize the structure of import and export commodities and improve the turnover rate of goods. Since July, the number of Guangzhou China-Europe train supply enterprises has continued to increase.

Data show that in the first seven months, the number of foreign trade enterprises with import and export performance in China was 526,000, an increase of 5.8% year-on-year. Among them, the import and export of private enterprises was 11.8 trillion yuan, an increase of 15.3%, accounting for 50% of China’s total foreign trade.

On August 4th, in the workshop of Tianjin Huayuan Times Metal Products Co., Ltd., galvanized iron wires as thin as hair regularly jumped on the production line and wound into coils on the plastic shaft. Workers are busy packing boxes, and then these products will be exported to overseas markets.

"Under the influence of the epidemic, raw materials and transportation costs have increased. Relevant departments have timely introduced many measures to promote the stability and quality of foreign trade, which is like a’ timely rain’ for us. " Ma Xiaowei, the company’s marketing minister, said.

While doing a good job in port epidemic prevention and control, Tianjin has stepped up efforts to ensure the smooth circulation of industrial chain supply chain in key areas and further improve the efficiency of customs clearance of import and export goods. Tianjin Customs sent special commissioners to cultivate credit for the "little giant" enterprises specializing in novelty, and instructed them to apply a number of facilitation policies such as declare in advance, direct delivery by ship, direct loading at port, paperless visa, etc., so as to empower small and medium-sized enterprises specializing in novelty.

In the first half of this year, the import and export value of Tianjin’s specialized and innovative "little giant" enterprises totaled 2.82 billion yuan, up 28.3% year-on-year.

Experts from the General Administration of Customs said that at present, China’s foreign trade development still faces some unstable and uncertain factors, and there are still many pressures to ensure stability and improve quality. On the whole, however, China’s foreign trade was more resilient in the first seven months, which laid a solid foundation for the stability and quality improvement of foreign trade throughout the year. With the acceleration of a series of policies and measures to stabilize the economy, the foreign trade logistics is further unblocked, and the enterprises’ resumption of work and production are further accelerated. China’s foreign trade import and export is expected to continue to maintain a steady growth momentum. (Reporter Du Haitao)