Five measures of the State Council to promote the steady growth of foreign trade

2014-05-07

 

Premier Li Keqiang April 30 chaired a State Council executive meeting, the deployment to support the steady growth of foreign trade and optimize the structure of the work. State Department instructed by optimizing trade structure will improve the level of trade facilitation, improve financial services and accelerate the progress of the export tax rebate, and enhance the competitiveness of enterprises and other measures to promote the steady growth of foreign trade.

 

The meeting held that the development not only for the steady growth of foreign trade, employment insurance is essential, but also help promote the depth of China's economic integration with the world economy. At present, China's foreign trade situation is grim complex to achieve full-year targets require strenuous effort. Must take into account the current and long-term, to take decisive and effective measures to promote the steady growth of imports and exports.

 

First, optimize trade structure. Support importing advanced technology and equipment, key parts, a reasonable increase is closely related to people's life, the necessary general consumer goods imports. Support the development of trade in services, and expand services export.

 

Second, is to improve the level of trade facilitation. Further reduce the types of goods export commodity inspection, comprehensively promote the "one declaration, one inspection and one release." Clean up intermediary services and charges, regulate the import and export order.

 

Third, is to improve financing services. Export credit insurance support to strengthen and expand the scale of export credit insurance and coverage, increase brand products, small and micro enterprises and other support. Encourage insurance companies to expand short-term export credit insurance business, to further increase the short-term export credit insurance business entities.

 

Fourth, to further accelerate the progress of the export tax rebate, to ensure full and timely refund. Timely expansion of the export tax rebate finance leases cargo pilot program. Adopt comprehensive measures to support the Chinese equipment "going out."

 

Five, is to enhance the competitiveness of enterprises. Encourage brand, technology and production lines acquisitions. Speed up cross-border e-commerce development, and actively promote trade and international marketing network construction platform. Resolutely prevent vicious competition. Strengthen trade friction.

       

 The meeting urged all localities and departments to the overall situation, as a positive, strengthen supervision and inspection to ensure that the policy measures put in place as soon as possible.