Ministry of Commerce： Establish a ＂white list＂ of foreign trade enterprises to solve the practical difficulties of foreign trade enterprises

CCTV News:On September 27th, at the routine briefing of the State Council policy on supporting the stable development of foreign trade held by the State Council Information Office, some media asked: There are still three months before the end of the year, and there are still some uncertainties in the performance of some enterprises. How can we help these foreign trade enterprises ensure the performance and timely delivery of foreign trade orders?

　　In this regard, Wang Shouwen, the international trade negotiator and vice minister of the Ministry of Commerce, said that the external demand is slowing down now, and it is very important for enterprises to ensure that the orders can be produced and delivered and the products produced can be transported. In this regard, the Ministry of Commerce attaches great importance to it and has taken a series of measures.

　　First, in terms of ensuring production, one of the six policies clearly stated that all localities should strengthen the protection of foreign trade enterprises in epidemic prevention, energy consumption, employment and logistics, ensure that these key foreign trade enterprises do not have problems in epidemic prevention, ensure the protection of electricity consumption, employment and logistics, and give full support when necessary to ensure the timely delivery of foreign trade orders. In practice, although affected by the epidemic in recent years, many experiences and practices have been accumulated in various places. For example, Sichuan recently adopted the "epidemic prevention bubble" model, which regards enterprises as the smallest epidemic prevention unit, and provides employees with food, clothing, shelter, transportation, medical care and other needs in advance. Even if an epidemic occurs, employees of enterprises move from their residences to factories in a closed loop, and production and living materials are circulated in a bubble, so that production is not affected by the epidemic. During the epidemic period, all major foreign trade and foreign-funded enterprises in Sichuan maintained full production level, order delivery was guaranteed, and industrial chain stability was consolidated. These practices are not only in Sichuan, but also in other provinces, and the Ministry of Commerce is constantly summing up, communicating with each other, and replicating and promoting them throughout the country.

　　Second, in the event of an epidemic, production enterprises should ensure that their products can be shipped out. the State Council has specially set up a leading group to ensure smooth logistics. Under the overall planning of the leading group, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Transport have established a close linkage channel to effectively ensure the smooth transportation of foreign trade goods. If local or foreign trade enterprises report problems in transportation, the Ministry of Commerce will coordinate and handle them at the first time, closely cooperate with the transportation department, and feed back the results to local and enterprises. It can be said that at present, the traffic and logistics indicators related to foreign trade goods are steadily improving. Next, we will continue to unblock the blocking points and smooth the collection and distribution. For example, China’s automobile exports have grown rapidly this year, reaching 1.9 million vehicles from January to August, an increase of 44.5% over the same period last year. Marine automobile transportation needs special ships — — Ro-ro ship, China’s ro-ro ship capacity is insufficient, so we are actively coordinating the transportation of cars through China-Europe trains. At the same time, we are also working with the transportation department to support shipping companies to innovate transportation modes and install special frames to carry cars through multi-purpose ships, which also alleviates the problem of tight export capacity of cars.

　　Third, in terms of protecting key enterprises, a "white list" of foreign trade enterprises has been established to actively serve the front and solve the practical difficulties of these foreign trade enterprises. At the national level, foreign trade goods should be included in the scope of important materials to fully guarantee transportation demand; At the departmental level, the Ministry of Commerce and relevant departments have established a contact system for large-scale backbone foreign trade enterprises. Relevant state departments and financial institutions have provided inclusive services to foreign trade enterprises with the help of the "white list", and also guided local governments to establish monitoring service mechanisms for key foreign trade enterprises in the region to strengthen production performance guarantee; At the local level, the competent commercial departments at all levels carry out regular visits through the "white list" and "one-on-one" bail-out, solve the specific problems of production performance of foreign trade enterprises, and promote the accurate introduction of policies and measures to solve common problems.

　　Fourthly, in terms of trade facilitation, the Ministry of Commerce, together with other relevant departments in the State Council, has made efforts to improve the level of trade facilitation. For example, today, the Ministry of Commerce has issued the Reference of Standard Operating Procedures for Foreign Trade Imported Goods at Maritime Air Railway Ports. No matter the ports such as railways, highways or aviation, good practices are summarized for your reference in terms of trade facilitation. At the same time, the Ministry of Commerce will also work with relevant departments to clean up unreasonable charges at ports, strengthen the supervision of the main body of charges at maritime ports, and strive to reduce the fees and costs of foreign trade enterprises.