General Administration of Customs： In the first half of this year, the import and export of private enterprises in China reached 9.82 trillion yuan, and measures were taken to promote the stability an

Today (July 13th) morning, the State Council Press Office held a press conference. Li Kuiwen, spokesman of the General Administration of Customs and director of the Statistics and Analysis Department, introduced the import and export situation in the first half of 2022 and answered questions from reporters.

Li Kuiwen said that since the beginning of this year, the state has intensively introduced a number of policies and measures to promote the stability and quality of foreign trade, support enterprises to solve problems, and continuously and effectively stimulate the vitality of foreign trade market players. In the first half of the year, the number of foreign trade enterprises with import and export performance in China increased by 5.5% year-on-year. Among them, the number of private enterprises increased by 6.9%, reaching 425,000, which performed better than the whole. The main features of its import and export are as follows:

First, in terms of development speed, in the first half of the year, the import and export of private enterprises was 9.82 trillion yuan, up by 13.6%, 4.2 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of the whole country, and the proportion of private enterprises in the total foreign trade increased by 1.9 percentage points to 49.6% compared with the same period of last year, and their position as the largest subject of foreign trade was further consolidated.

Second, in terms of product structure, in the first half of the year, the export of mechanical and electrical products of private enterprises increased by 15.3%, which was 6.7 percentage points higher than the national export growth rate of mechanical and electrical products. Imports of agricultural products, basic organic chemicals, medicinal materials and medicines increased by 6.4%, 14% and 33.1% respectively, which were higher than the import growth rate of similar products in China.

Third, in terms of market development, in the first half of the year, while maintaining growth in the import and export of traditional markets such as the United States, Europe, South Korea and Japan, private enterprises accelerated the development of emerging markets. The import and export of ASEAN, Latin America and Central Asia increased by 20.5%, 16.4% and 53.3% respectively, and the growth rate was higher than the overall national level.

In the first half of the year, China’s foreign trade can achieve steady growth, and an important support is the effective stimulation of the vitality of various foreign trade market players. Around the main body of the market, the customs has introduced ten measures to promote the stability and quality of foreign trade. Recently, the customs has specially studied and introduced seven measures to further help enterprises to help them out and reduce costs, mainly including: for those who are unable to pay taxes on time and pay back taxes within the prescribed time limit due to operational difficulties caused by the epidemic, the late payment fee can be reduced or exempted; Cancel the third-party inspection requirements for enterprises to apply for exemption from customs duties and import link taxes for returned goods; Exempting enterprises from handling quarantine licenses for imported fruits and providing proof materials of storage places; Simplify the inspection requirements for imported coatings, and no longer check the Paint Record Certificate; Adjust and optimize the inspection requirements for imported crude oil and coal.

In the next step, the customs will pay close attention to the implementation of various policies and measures to help enterprises solve problems and make every effort to promote the stability and quality of foreign trade. (Headquarters reporter Sun Shuwen, Kong Lingwen, Liang Jiahui)