East China’s Jiangsu province has taken proactive measures to help local enterprises tide over difficulties amid the nationwide prevention and control of the covid-19 epidemic due to the spread of the Omicron virus.
Tang Xingxing, a businessman from Changshu Garment Mall, made a customs declaration for the export of a batch of clothing worth about US$100,000 through an online platform opened by the local government.
These goods will be exported to the United States through market procurement trade.
This online platform helps foreign trade companies ease the formalities of customs declaration.
Affected by the epidemic, the lack of shipping space has led to high freight rates. The platform has launched a mixed container service to save about 30% of logistics costs for each exporter.
Tang Xingxing, Businessman from Changshu Garment Mall
The demand for export logistics
is on the high side
but fortunately Matson Navigation Company, Inc.
has provided stable services
so that we do not need to worry
about failing to export our goods
Tang Xingxing saved 120 thousand yuan in logistics costs in the first quarter.
Yancheng Yi Cross-Border Import and Export Service Co., Ltd. Made customs declaration on an online market procurement trade platform to ensure that its goods are exported through the China-Laos railway.
Du Yifei, CEO, Yancheng Yi Cross-Border Import and Export Service Co., Ltd.
The cost of sea freight is too high
According to the logistics solution
provided by the platform
we will transport the goods to Kunming
where they will be loaded
on the China-Laos railway international freight train
and will be transferred from Laos to Thailand
before the goods reach the destination
in two or three days
Wu Mingjie, Officer, Changshu Customs
We support the integration
of simplified declaration and customs clearance
export through China-Laos and China-Europe freight trains
promote market procurement and export
of cross-border e-commerce cargo container combinations
help enterprises reduce costs and stabilize orders
Under the adverse impact of the epidemic, Jiangsu has provided all-round assistance to small, medium and micro foreign trade enterprises, supported foreign trade enterprises to explore the international market through online and offline exhibitions, arranged provincial business development funds to support export credit insurance premiums, and carried out RECP foreign trade policy publicity and guidance to help enterprises stabilize their international market share.
Jiang Xingzhou, Secretary of the Party Committee of Lianyungang Municipal Bureau of Commerce
We paid the exhibitor fee for the enterprise
by subsidizing no more than 50% of the booth fee
For enterprises
that have insured short-term export credit insurance
we will support no more than 50%
of the actual premium paid in the current year
In this way
we can give an annual subsidy
of 500 thousand yuan to a single enterprise
In the first two months, Jiangsu reported a total import and export value of 839.77 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15.1%, 1.8 percentage points higher than the national average.
