The reporter learned from Quanzhou Customs that from January to April this year, the two markets in Quanzhou purchased 14.39 billion yuan of export goods for trade, a year-on-year increase of 1.9 times. Among them, the Shishi Clothing City market, which has been in operation for two and a half years, exported 11.58 billion yuan, an increase of 1.4 times; the Jinjiang Shoes Textile City market, which had just started operation on December 30, 2020, exported 2.81 billion yuan.
As the only two national-level procurement trade pilots in Fujian Province, both the Shishi Clothing City Market and the Jinjiang Shoes Textile City market are developing rapidly, effectively promoting the construction of a new export-oriented business pattern of "buying the country and selling the world". Quanzhou's high-quality foreign trade has injected new momentum into it.
As a new type of trade, market procurement trade has the characteristics of multiple varieties, small batches, and multiple batches. Compared with general trade methods, it has low entry barriers, simple declaration procedures, fast customs clearance and export, and no value-added tax exemption. Policy advantages such as refunding and allowing multiple entities to collect foreign exchange have reduced the difficulty of export declaration, reduced the probability of declaration errors, and solved trade problems such as small orders, mixed goods, multiple types, and difficulty in obtaining value-added tax invoices.
Quanzhou, known as the "big private economy city in China," exports of private enterprises accounted for about 70% of the total export value, and in the structure of export commodities, traditional labor-intensive products such as shoes, textiles and clothing, and ceramics accounted for about 70%. Market procurement and export trade, a new type of trade method, can effectively help companies lower the threshold of foreign trade and save customs clearance costs, thereby further seizing market opportunities and stimulating the vitality of market entities.
Quanzhou Customs revealed that at present, the two national-level procurement trade pilots in Quanzhou are exported to 129 countries and regions on six continents including the Philippines, the United States, South Korea, the European Union, and Vietnam. The main commodities are mechanical and electrical products, ceramic products, plastic products, footwear, and textiles. Clothing etc. As of the end of April, the Shishi Clothing City pilot market procurement entities have newly added 1,464 filings, with a total of 25475; Jinjiang Shoes Textile City has 860 enterprises and merchants stationed in the market procurement trade pilot, and 164 cargo organization companies and customs brokers.
In order to cultivate and expand the emerging business in the customs area and promote the healthy and orderly development of market procurement, Quanzhou Customs has implemented precise policies and worked closely with local governments to actively promote foreign trade companies to open up the international market through the Shishi Clothing City and Jinjiang Shoes Textile City market procurement trade. The relevant person in charge of Quanzhou Customs stated that it will further innovate the pilot supervision method of procurement trade, continue to optimize the business environment, cooperate with local commerce and other departments to help enterprises expand the markets of emerging countries and RCEP member countries of the “Belt and Road”, and explore market procurement and procurement. Cross-border e-commerce and other new foreign trade formats are integrated and developed, and the "market procurement +" policy linkage advantage is used to help new foreign trade formats such as market procurement, trade and export, and play a greater role in boosting the high-quality development of Quanzhou's foreign trade.
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