CCTV News:This morning, the General Administration of Customs announced:In the first 10 months of this year, China’s import and export of goods reached 25.05 trillion yuan, up 11.3% year-on-year. Imports and exports continued to maintain a steady growth momentum.Among them, exports were 13.35 trillion yuan, up 7.9%, and imports were 11.7 trillion yuan, up 15.5%.
Li Kuiwen, Director of Statistics and Analysis Department of General Administration of Customs:In the first 10 months, China’s import and export maintained steady growth, mainly because the world economy showed a recovery momentum, the domestic economy was generally stable, steady and progressing, a series of policies to stabilize foreign trade were continuously released, and the business environment continued to improve.
The improvement of business environment promotes the steady growth of foreign trade.
The development of foreign trade of enterprises cannot be separated from the support of policy environment. An enterprise in Shandong once influenced the development of the enterprise because of the unequal export tax rebate.
Wang Xiaochun, Director of Customs Clearance Section of Qingdao Customs Office in Zaozhuang:The export tax rebate rate is 5%, while the export tax rebate rate of raw materials in stainless steel wire rods is 13%. The inversion of export tax rebate rate of raw materials and finished products directly affects the production cost of enterprises, which leads to the suppression of processing and export of enterprises.
After learning about this situation through tariff investigation, the customs actively applied for adjusting the tax rate, which was approved by the state: the export tax rebate rate was raised from 5% to 10%.
Sun Yan, a company in Zaozhuang, Shandong:An increase of 5 points in the tax rebate rate has brought direct income of nearly 10 million yuan to enterprises, and more importantly, it has greatly enhanced our competitiveness in the international market.
In Shenzhen, customs has made enterprises feel real convenience in import and export through a series of measures such as optimizing customs clearance process, simplifying examination and approval procedures and shortening customs clearance time.
Wu Chunyan, head of the import and export department of a technology company in Shenzhen: As long as we have reasonable demands, they can help us solve them in time.
Chen Xiaoying, Commissioner of Shenzhen Customs:On the basis of the sharp reduction of customs clearance time in the previous year, this year’s import has been reduced by 17.0% and export by 42.0%, so the effect is still quite obvious.
The continuous improvement of the port business environment has benefited enterprises, and made countries around the world see unlimited business opportunities from the China market.
Li Kuiwen, Director of Statistics and Analysis Department of General Administration of Customs:According to the latest report of the World Bank, China’s global ranking in the field of cross-border trade rose by 32 places to 65th place, which provided strong support for the steady growth of foreign trade.
Actively expand opening up, import and export more balanced.
Customs statistics show that since the beginning of this year, China’s imports have maintained rapid growth, and the growth rate is higher than that of exports in the same period. The development of import and export has become more balanced, and the door to opening up has become wider and wider.
These days, the import Expo being held in Shanghai has attracted the attention of domestic and foreign merchants, and a three-day matchmaking meeting is also underway. With 8,000 square meters of site and more than 300 negotiation tables, a cooperation is reached every few minutes on average. In addition to China’s huge market, enterprises all over the world value the continuously open cross-border trade environment. Only the extension of the endorsement of exhibition exhibits introduced by the customs allows enterprises to obtain exhibition time.
Dai Congrong, Second Division of Shanghai Customs Field Business:It reduces the need for enterprises to go to the customs one more time to apply for the extension of relevant passports. At the same time, the biggest effect is to provide them with more time (display and sales) for how to expand their participation after the exhibition.
Li Kuiwen, Director of Statistics and Analysis Department of General Administration of Customs:The China Import Expo being held is an important measure for China to open its market to the world, which fully demonstrates China’s determination to actively expand imports.
The pace of China’s opening to the outside world is not only reflected in the import fair, but also in the release of dividends at various ports across the country. Putting taxes first is one of the important reforms to reduce the overall customs clearance time and improve customs clearance efficiency, and it is also the customs clearance method chosen by more and more enterprises. However, if the goods are released first, the enterprise needs to provide guarantee for the tax. This petrochemical company in Zibo needs to pay a deposit of nearly 100 million yuan according to the tax rate of 16% every time it imports more than 1 million barrels of crude oil.
Hu Jun, Director of Customs Department of Jinan Customs:80% of the tax source of Jinan Customs is bulk cargo, and these enterprises occupy high funds and customs clearance costs in the process, which is a difficult problem that the Customs needs to solve.
In order to solve this problem, the General Administration of Customs has launched a pilot program of tariff guarantee insurance throughout the country. Led by Jinan Customs, four companies insured PICC P&C Insurance in China for 500 million yuan on the first day. Among them, Zibo, a petrochemical company, insured 250 million yuan, making it the largest insurance policy in China since the pilot.
Cui Yunfang, head of a petrochemical company in Zibo:The efficiency of customs clearance has been improved, and the cost of demurrage for the whole ship has been reduced in disguise. The second is that if our funds are delayed, it will be beneficial for us to calculate the cost of financial funds.
The latest statistics of the General Administration of Customs show that in the first 10 months, China’s imports were 11.7 trillion yuan, up by 15.5%, and the trade surplus was 1.65 trillion yuan, narrowing by 26.1%. Import and export are more balanced. At the same time, China’s imports of crude oil, natural gas and copper have increased substantially, which is providing a steady stream of power for the world economy.
Li Kuiwen, Director of Statistics and Analysis Department of General Administration of Customs:The customs will resolutely implement the national decision-making and deployment to expand imports, further improve the level of customs clearance facilitation, continuously optimize the business environment at ports, reduce the institutional costs of import links, and stimulate import potential.
Private enterprises performed well in foreign trade, and imports and exports increased by 14.6% year-on-year.
Customs statistics show that in the first 10 months, the import and export of China’s private enterprises increased by 14.6% year-on-year, which has become a highlight of China’s foreign trade development.
At the just-concluded Canton Fair, a personalized ceramic bathroom product attracted the attention of many foreign merchants. The reason why the company can realize personalized customization is precisely because the company used 3D printing technology in mold production.
Jiang Zexing, head of a 3D printing technology company in Shenzhen:For example, in the ceramic industry, our traditional practice of adding 30 or 50 processes and steps can be completed in three steps at most with 3D printing.
With the continuous maturity of 3D printing technology, it has been widely used in many fields, such as automobile, medical care, aerospace and so on, which has also enabled Shenzhen, a private enterprise, to find a market, and foreign trade orders have been placed for one year.
Customs statistics show that in the first 10 months, the import and export of private enterprises in China reached 9.88 trillion yuan, up 14.6% year-on-year, of which 6.38 trillion yuan was exported, up 11.2%, and 3.5 trillion yuan was imported, up 21.5% year-on-year, which was 3.3 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of China’s foreign trade.
Li Kuiwen, Director of Statistics and Analysis Department of General Administration of Customs:The Customs will conscientiously implement the spirit of the important speech delivered by the Supreme Leader General Secretary at the symposium of private enterprises, take more effective measures to help private enterprises solve difficulties in development and support private enterprises to actively explore the international market.
Foreign trade with all trading partners has maintained rapid growth.
In addition, customs statistics show that in the first 10 months, the import and export between China and the EU was 3.68 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.4%; Imports and exports with the United States reached 3.44 trillion yuan, up by 7.4%. In the same period, the import and export between China and ASEAN was 3.18 trillion yuan, an increase of 13.7%; Imports and exports with Latin America and Africa increased by 16.3% and 15.5% respectively, which was higher than the overall growth rate of China’s foreign trade in the same period.
Li Kuiwen, Director of Statistics and Analysis Department of General Administration of Customs:In the first 10 months of this year, the growth rate of China’s trade with countries along the Belt and Road was 3.5 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of China’s foreign trade in the same period. (Foreign) trade with countries along the "Belt and Road" has become a new driving force for China’s foreign trade development. (CCTV reporter Sun Shuwen Zhao Xuefeng)