In Xiliu Garment City, Liaoning, a batch of shirts, shoes and socks are about to be shipped to Greece. Different from the conventional trade method, this batch of clothing from many merchants in the local clothing city will be exported through grouping and consolidating boxes.
“In the past, if I didn’t have the qualifications, I couldn’t do foreign trade. The clothes I produced could only be exported with someone else’s trademark on them, and most of the profits were shared by others.” Zhang Pingping, a merchant in Xiliu Garment City, said that now with policy support, Individual merchants can engage in foreign trade after being registered.
The “recording” mentioned by Zhang Pingping is exactly the market procurement trade business that has emerged in various places in recent years. As a new form of foreign trade and a new model, the market procurement trade method is for qualified operators to purchase goods in a market agglomeration area recognized by the national commerce department and other departments, and a single customs declaration form for goods with a value of 150,000 US dollars (including 150,000 US dollars) Below, the trade method is to go through customs clearance procedures for export commodities at the place of purchase.
According to Zhang Jun, director of the Port Supervision Department of Dalian Customs, since the procurement of trade business in the Xiliu Garment City pilot market in March this year, the number of export suppliers registered with Dalian Customs has reached 6,057, and the total import and export trade volume has reached 314 million US dollars, exported to more than 80 countries and regions including Germany and South Korea, becoming a new growth point for Liaoning’s foreign trade.
“The market procurement trade method mainly targets small and micro enterprises with ‘small orders, miscellaneous goods, and many varieties’, providing them with a convenient channel to connect with the international market.” Zhang Jun said that in order to reduce the participation of small and micro enterprises As for the threshold of foreign trade, Dalian Customs has simplified the registration and approval procedures and established an online one-stop filing window. Enterprises, regardless of size, can directly declare their goods for export as long as they register on the platform.
At present, our country has more than 160 million market entities, and small, medium and micro enterprises account for more than 90% of the total market entities. The market procurement trade method has greatly benefited from its policy advantages such as exemption from value-added tax, simplified customs clearance procedures, and innovative foreign exchange settlement methods. It meets the foreign trade needs of small, medium and micro enterprises for small orders, small batches and multiple batches, especially during the epidemic prevention and control period. It has the advantages of smooth customs clearance process and stable logistics development, and has become the highlight of foreign trade exports in many places.
“During the epidemic, for the first time, we exported 2 batches of woolen materials worth more than 200,000 yuan through the market procurement platform.” Individual in Keqiao, Shaoxing, ZhejiangChina Textile City Wu Lite, an industrial and commercial household, said that the new export channel has been opened at his doorstep, and individual industrial and commercial households can also participate in the foreign trade army, which is both convenient and stable. There are many new foreign traders like Wu Lite in the local area.
Statistics from Hangzhou Customs, which is affiliated with Shaoxing Customs, show that in the first half of 2022, the export value of trade goods purchased from the China Textile City Market in Keqiao, Shaoxing, Zhejiang reached 11.17 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 125.1%. The export agglomeration effect is obvious, and the export performance ranks first in the country. At the forefront of the same batch of pilot units. According to statistics, more than 1,700 individual industrial and commercial households have registered on the Textile City Market Procurement Network Information Platform.
Jiangsu Changshu Garment City is one of the earliest pilot markets in the country to launch market procurement trade. Based on local characteristics, Changshu Customs, a subsidiary of Nanjing Customs, guides the establishment of a “one-stop” market procurement and trade service platform that integrates commodity registration, customs declaration, cargo consolidation, customs clearance and export, etc., which solves the problem of a large number of merchants in the garment city due to small orders and The trade difficulties caused by the inability to obtain tax refunds in accordance with the law due to the large variety of miscellaneous goods without VAT invoices have effectively lowered the foreign trade threshold for small, medium and micro enterprises, and also alleviated the pressure caused by the epidemic.
“I have been in the foreign trade business of clothing in Changshu Garment City for many years. I used to sell goods to foreign trade companies as agents for export. Not only did I have to pay agency fees, but I also had to bear various export risks.” Individual industrial and commercial households in Changshu Garment City Chen Jin said that when he received a clothing order of US$147,000 in May this year, he was still a little worried, fearing that he would not be able to deliver goods normally due to the impact of the epidemic. Later, under the guidance of the local customs, we chose to export through market procurement trade. What he didn’t expect was that using the market procurement trade method for LCL exporting not only simplified the declaration process, but also saved more than 3,000 yuan in logistics costs.
Based on the foundation of traditional export trade, Nanjing Customs focuses on building the “Jiangsu Model” of market procurement trade, promoting the integrated development of market procurement and foreign trade comprehensive services, and cross-border e-commerce. Optimize the supervision model of cross-border e-commerce B2B direct exports and export overseas warehouses, drive industrytransformation and upgrading by exploring new foreign trade formats and new models, and strive to “improve the quality and upgrade” of Jiangsu’s foreign trade .
According to statistics, as of the end of June this year, Jiangsu Province has cultivated and certified 34 provincial-level cross-border e-commerce industrial parks and 32 provincial-level public overseas warehouses. During the same period, Jiangsu Province’s market procurement trade accepted a total of 18,819 export declarations with a value of 11.085 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.44% and 13.95% respectively.
The relevant person in charge of Nanjing Customs stated that they will continue to implement various measures to promote the stability and improvement of foreign trade, vigorously support the integrated development of the advantages of market procurement trade and cross-border e-commerce, and optimize the integrated export channels of market procurement, customs transfer and customs clearance. Actively explore new routes for water, land and air transport to bring benefits to small, medium and micro enterprises in Jiangsu.�Convenient and compliant new export channels help the export-oriented economy run fast and steadily.
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