Export Trade: Market Procurement Trade Makes Export "Fast And Stable"

In Xiliu clothing city, Liaoning Province, a batch of shirts, shoes and socks are about to leave for Greece. Different from the conventional trade mode, this batch of clothing from many merchants in the local clothing city will be exported through the way of container consolidation.

"Before I had no qualification, I couldn't do foreign trade. My clothes could only be exported with other people's trademarks. Most of the profits were distributed by others." Zhang Pingping, a merchant in Xiliu clothing city, said that now with policy support, individual merchants can engage in foreign trade after filing.

Zhang Pingping's "record keeping" is exactly the market purchasing trade business that has sprung up all over the country in recent years. The mode of purchasing goods with a value of less than 150000 U.S. dollars is recognized as a new mode of purchasing goods in the market by the trade department in charge of foreign trade.

According to Zhang Jun, director of Dalian Customs Port Supervision Office, since March this year, there have been 6057 export suppliers registered with Dalian customs, and the total import and export trade volume has reached 314 million US dollars. It has been exported to more than 80 countries and regions such as Germany and South Korea, which has become a new growth point of Liaoning's foreign trade.

"The main way of market procurement trade is to face small and micro enterprises with small quantity, miscellaneous goods and various varieties, which provides them with a convenient channel to connect with the international market." Zhang Jun said that in order to reduce the threshold for small and micro enterprises to participate in foreign trade, Dalian Customs has simplified the registration procedures and approval process, and established an online one-stop filing window. Enterprises, large or small, can directly declare for export as long as they file on the platform.

At present, China has more than 160 million market entities, and small and medium-sized enterprises account for more than 90% of the total number of market entities. The market procurement trade mode has greatly met the small single, small batch and multi batch foreign trade demand of small and micro enterprises, especially during the period of epidemic prevention and control, Moreover, with the advantages of smooth customs clearance process and stable logistics development, it has become the highlight of many local foreign trade exports.

"During the epidemic period, for the first time, we exported two pieces of woolen cloth worth more than 200000 yuan through the market procurement platform." Wu Li te, an individual industrial and commercial household in Keqiao China Textile City, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, said that the new export channel has been laid at the door of their home, and individual businesses can also participate in the foreign trade army, which is convenient and stable. There are still quite a few new foreign businessmen like Wu Li te.

According to the statistics of Hangzhou Customs under Shaoxing customs, in the first half of 2022, the export amount of goods purchased by Keqiao China Textile City yard in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province reached 11.17 billion yuan, an increase of 125.1% over the same period of last year. The export agglomeration effect is obvious, and the export performance ranks first in the same batch of pilot units in China. According to statistics, more than 1700 individual businesses have registered on the online purchasing information platform of Textile City farms.

Jiangsu Changshu clothing city is one of the pilot markets to carry out market procurement trade earlier. Based on the local characteristics, Changshu customs, affiliated to Nanjing Customs, has guided the establishment of a "one-stop" market procurement and trade service platform integrating commodity filing, customs declaration, cargo consolidation and customs clearance and export, which has solved the trade problems caused by a large number of merchants in the clothing city who are unable to refund tax in accordance with the law due to their small bills, miscellaneous goods, many varieties and no VAT invoices, It has effectively reduced the foreign trade threshold of small and medium-sized enterprises, and also eased the pressure brought by the epidemic.

"I have been doing garment trade business in Changshu garment city for many years. In the past, I sold the goods to foreign trade companies as agents for export. I had to pay agency fees and bear various export risks." Chen Jin, a self-employed businessman in Changshu clothing city, said that when he received an order of 147000 US dollars in May, he was still a little worried. He was afraid that he would not be able to deliver goods normally due to the epidemic situation. Later, under the guidance of the local customs, they chose to export by market procurement trade. What he didn't expect was that the adoption of market procurement trade for LCL export not only simplified the declaration process, but also saved more than 3000 yuan of logistics costs.

Based on the basis of traditional export trade, Nanjing Customs focuses on creating a "Jiangsu Mode" of market procurement trade, promoting the integrated development of market procurement and foreign trade comprehensive services and cross-border e-commerce, optimizing the B2B direct export of cross-border e-commerce and the supervision mode of export overseas warehouse. Through exploring new business forms and new models of foreign trade, Nanjing Customs has promoted the transformation and upgrading of industries and promoted the "quality upgrading" of Jiangsu's foreign trade.

According to statistics, by the end of June this year, 34 provincial-level cross-border e-commerce industrial parks and 32 provincial-level public overseas warehouses have been cultivated and identified in Jiangsu Province. Over the same period, Jiangsu Province's market procurement trade received 18819 export declaration forms and the value of goods reached 11.085 billion yuan, up 17.44% and 13.95% respectively year-on-year.

The person in charge of Nanjing Customs said that it would continue to implement various measures to promote the stability and quality improvement of foreign trade, vigorously support the development of market procurement trade and cross-border e-commerce advantages, optimize the integrated export channels of market procurement and customs clearance, actively explore new routes of water, land and air transport, and bring new convenient and compliant export channels for small and medium-sized enterprises in Jiangsu Province, The economy is stable and fast.