Yuefu [2016] No.52
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Guangdong Provincial People’s Government on Issuing and Promoting Foreign Trade
Notice of stabilizing and improving the implementation plan
People’s governments at the local level and listed, people’s governments of counties (cities, districts), departments and institutions directly under the provincial government:
The "Implementation Plan of Guangdong Province for Promoting Foreign Trade to Stabilize and Improve" is hereby printed and distributed to you, please implement it carefully. Please report the problems encountered in the implementation process to the Provincial Department of Commerce.
people’s government of guangdong province
June 3, 2016
Guangdong province’s implementation plan for promoting foreign trade to stabilize and improve.
In order to implement the Opinions of the State Council on Promoting Foreign Trade to Stabilize and Improve (Guo Fa [2016] No.27), strive to promote the foreign trade in our province to stabilize and improve, and promote the transformation, upgrading and innovative development of foreign trade, this implementation plan is formulated.
First, enhance export efficiency
(1) Support enterprises to explore the international market. Formulate annual plans for key exhibitions at home and abroad, build independent exhibition platforms in key regions and countries, support enterprises to expand markets in countries along the Belt and Road, and consolidate and enhance traditional market shares in Europe and America. Make full use of exhibition platforms such as China Import and Export Fair, China Processing Trade Products Expo and Guangdong 21st Century Maritime Silk Road International Expo to expand exports. Cultivate a number of professional overseas exhibitions in key industries. We will carry out the activity of "traveling all over the country", strengthen economic and trade cooperation with border areas, and promote enterprises in our province to explore the border trade market. (The Provincial Department of Commerce and the Council for the Promotion of International Trade are responsible, and the leading unit is the one listed in the first place, the same below)
(2) Accelerate the cultivation of independent foreign trade brands. Support enterprises to expand the export of electromechanical and high-tech products. Encourage enterprises to establish their own brands, carry out international brand mergers and acquisitions, register trademarks overseas and other activities, set up a brand product marketing network, and strengthen the publicity of independent brands. Establish a statistical system for the export of branded goods. Guide the transformation and upgrading of foreign trade bases, accelerate the cultivation of regional brands, actively build public service platforms, and improve the competitiveness of traditional superior products. (Provincial Department of Commerce, Economic and Information Technology Commission, Guangdong Branch of Customs, Guangdong, Shenzhen and Zhuhai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureaus are responsible)
(3) Encourage enterprises to "go global" to drive exports. Actively participate in the "Belt and Road" construction and international capacity cooperation to drive the export of equipment, materials, technologies, standards and services in our province. Support enterprises to lay out production bases and marketing networks in key target markets, build industrial parks and economic and trade cooperation zones, and build overseas operation centers, warehousing and logistics bases, trade distribution centers and commodity exhibition centers in important transportation hubs and nodes. Support qualified enterprises to "go global" and explore the establishment of overseas industrial parks. Support key enterprises to build overseas after-sales maintenance service centers and spare parts production bases for automobiles, machine tools, construction machinery, communications, rail transit, aviation, ships and ocean engineering. Accelerate cooperation projects in overseas key industrial parks to promote foreign trade exports. (Responsible for Provincial Department of Commerce, Development and Reform Commission, Economic and Information Commission and Science and Technology Department)
(four) to play the role of overseas trade promotion platform. Further improve the layout of overseas economic and trade representative offices, and organize various economic and trade exchange promotion activities by using the platforms of our province’s overseas economic and trade representative offices and overseas Guangdong Chamber of Commerce. Strengthen cooperation with overseas consulting service agencies, business associations and other institutions to establish a long-term mechanism for trade promotion. (Responsible by Provincial Department of Commerce and CCPIT)
Second, implement a proactive import policy
(five) the implementation of import discount policy. Combined with the construction of advanced equipment manufacturing industrial belt on the west bank of the Pearl River and a new round of technological transformation, we will timely adjust the catalogue of technologies and products encouraged to be imported in our province, implement the relevant national import discount policy, promote the import of advanced technology and equipment, key components and scarce resource-based products, and encourage enterprises to introduce, digest, absorb and innovate. (Responsible for Provincial Department of Commerce, Development and Reform Commission, Economic and Information Commission and Science and Technology Department)
(6) Promoting the import of bulk commodities and consumer goods. Promote the opening operation of large specialized terminals in Guangzhou, Zhuhai, Shantou, Jieyang, Zhanjiang and Yangjiang, and expand the import of bulk materials such as coal, oil and gas, ore and grain. Strive for the country to further relax the entry threshold for the import of resource commodities and give qualified crude oil processing enterprises the qualification to use and import crude oil. Implement the automatic import license management policy for important agricultural products such as sugar, and expand the import channels and scale. Expand the import of agricultural products and daily consumer goods, and guide consumption abroad to return. (Provincial Department of Commerce (Port Office), Development and Reform Commission, Department of Transportation, Guangdong, Shenzhen and Zhuhai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau are responsible)
(7) Organizing import procurement activities. Combined with the industrial characteristics of our province and the import demand of enterprises, we will organize enterprises to carry out advanced equipment import procurement activities in developed regions such as Europe and America. Accelerate the construction of a number of import commodity trading centers that radiate across the province and even the whole country, and further play their role in promoting imports. (Responsible for the Provincial Department of Commerce and the Development and Reform Commission)
Third, promote the innovation and development of foreign trade
(8) Promoting foreign trade innovation by relying on the Pilot Free Trade Zone. Further deepen the reform of the investment management system of China (Guangdong) Pilot Free Trade Zone (hereinafter referred to as Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone) and improve the level of investment and trade facilitation. Strive for the support of the state departments to carry out pilot projects such as tax refund at the port of departure and domestic and foreign trade operations in the same port. Accelerate the replication and promotion of the innovative experience of the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone, and actively promote the selective tariff collection policy in the special customs supervision areas in the region. Give full play to the advantages of cross-border electronic commerce enterprises in Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone, and accelerate the construction of distribution centers for imported consumer goods. For the financial leasing enterprises registered in the special customs supervision area of Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone to import large-scale equipment such as airplanes, ships and offshore engineering structures, under the premise of ensuring effective supervision and implementation of the existing relevant tax policies, the customs commission supervision policy will be implemented in different places. Encourage the expansion of parallel import of automobiles. Accelerate the introduction of headquarters-based enterprises to settle down, and support the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone to build a comprehensive service platform for foreign investment that integrates cross-border financing services, international legal accounting services, and comprehensive information services. (Provincial Department of Commerce (Free Trade Office), Department of Finance, Guangdong Branch of Customs, Guangdong, Shenzhen and Zhuhai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau are responsible)
(9) Promoting the innovative development of processing trade. Completely cancel the examination and approval of processing trade business in the province, and further improve the supervision mechanism after the event. Promote the whole information reform of Guangdong bonded processing manual management. Initiate the reform of "Facilitating the Domestic Sales of Processing Trade in internet plus", and simplify and standardize the management of the domestic sales of processing trade scraps and processed products. We will further promote the transformation and upgrading of processing trade and guide processing trade enterprises to strengthen technological transformation, R&D innovation and the cultivation of independent brands. Support processing trade enterprises to strengthen the docking with overseas large-scale commercial circulation enterprises and industrial design enterprises, and enhance the level of international cooperation. Cultivate a number of demonstration parks for innovative development and gradient transfer of processing trade, and guide the innovation-driven development of processing trade in the Pearl River Delta and the processing trade in Guangdong, East and West to become bigger and stronger. Support the gradient transfer of processing trade, and the vacated land is approved to be converted into commercial, tourism, pension and other uses. The industrial land obtained by processing trade enterprises according to law can be paid in installments according to the contract, and the land transfer reserve price can be determined by not less than 70% of the relevant standards for industrial projects that belong to the priority development industry in our province and use intensive land. Do a good job in implementing the policy of reducing social insurance rates in stages. Actively explore the pilot of classified supervision of goods status in qualified special customs supervision areas, and give qualified enterprises the qualification of general VAT taxpayer on the premise of fair tax burden and controllable risks. (Provincial Department of Commerce, Economic and Information Technology Commission, Department of Human Resources and Social Security, Department of Land and Resources, Provincial State Taxation Bureau, Guangdong Customs Branch, Guangdong, Shenzhen and Zhuhai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureaus are responsible)
(ten) to promote the integration of foreign trade supply chain. We will increase support for foreign trade supply chain service enterprises, continue to identify a number of foreign trade comprehensive service pilot enterprises, improve facilitation measures such as customs clearance, tax refund, financing, inspection and quarantine, and strive to bring provincial foreign trade comprehensive service pilot enterprises into the scope of national pilot enterprises. Accelerate the establishment of a management model that is compatible with the development of foreign trade comprehensive service enterprises, and improve the classified management methods for tax refund (exemption) of foreign trade comprehensive service enterprises. Encourage enterprises to integrate the whole chain services from purchasing raw materials to sales terminals, and optimize the management and services of the foreign trade industry chain. (Provincial Department of Commerce, Provincial State Taxation Bureau, Guangdong Customs Branch, Guangdong, Shenzhen and Zhuhai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau are responsible)
(eleven) vigorously develop cross-border electronic commerce. Accelerate the construction of China (Guangzhou) and China (Shenzhen) cross-border electronic commerce Comprehensive Experimental Zone. Actively strive for state support for export enterprises that meet the regulatory conditions in the comprehensive experimental area. If they cannot provide input tax invoices, they will implement the policy of exemption and non-refund of value-added tax according to regulations. Comprehensively promote the export business in cross-border electronic commerce, support the construction of "public overseas warehouses" in cross-border electronic commerce and cross-border electronic commerce Park, and improve relevant public service platforms. Promote cross-border electronic commerce’s import and build a number of cross-border electronic commerce’s import exhibition experience centers. (Provincial Department of Commerce, Economic and Information Technology Commission, Provincial State Taxation Bureau, Guangdong Customs Branch, Guangdong, Shenzhen and Zhuhai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureaus are responsible)
(twelve) actively strive to carry out market procurement trade pilot. Promote the standardized development of tourism shopping trade mode, and replicate and promote the experience of tourism shopping export in qualified cities in the province. Expand the foreign trade function of the commodity market in the province, and support qualified markets to actively strive for the pilot business of market procurement trade. (Provincial Department of Commerce, Provincial State Taxation Bureau, Guangdong Branch of Foreign Exchange Bureau, Guangdong Branch of Customs, Guangdong, Shenzhen and Zhuhai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau are responsible)
(XIII) Accelerate the development of service trade. Vigorously promote the innovation and development of service trade in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and promote the construction of characteristic service export bases. Guide national service outsourcing demonstration cities and provincial service outsourcing demonstration cities and demonstration parks to improve supporting policies for service outsourcing. Accelerate the development of foreign cultural trade and establish a reward system for copyright export. (Provincial Department of Commerce, Development and Reform Commission, Department of Culture, Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television Bureau, Guangdong Customs Branch)
(14) Give play to the role of foreign investment in promoting trade. Support the transformation, upgrading and innovative development of state-level economic and technological development zones and various parks, stabilize the scale and speed of foreign investment, and improve the quality of foreign investment. Vigorously introduce new foreign-invested projects, promote existing foreign-funded enterprises to increase capital and expand production, strengthen the efforts to attract investment, intelligence and technology from developed regions such as Europe and the United States, and focus on introducing high-end industries, advanced technologies and key equipment. (Responsible for Provincial Department of Commerce, Development and Reform Commission, Economic and Information Commission and Science and Technology Department)
Fourth, increase fiscal and taxation financial support
(fifteen) the overall use of financial funds. Increase financial support, focusing on supporting enterprises to explore the international market, develop new foreign trade formats and insure credit insurance. Use special funds such as domestic and foreign economic and trade development and port construction to support overseas mergers and acquisitions and international marketing system construction in brands and patents, further improve the efficiency of capital use and speed up the progress of capital expenditure. (Responsible for Provincial Department of Commerce and Department of Finance)
(sixteen) the implementation of export tax rebate policy. Further accelerate the progress of export tax rebate, implement the time-limited settlement system, and improve the efficiency of tax rebate examination and approval. Clean up the tax refund data of enterprises that have been declared but have not ruled out doubts, and effectively solve the problems left over from history. We will improve the classified management measures for export tax rebates, gradually increase the proportion of first-class enterprises with export tax rebates, and actively give play to the exemplary role of first-class enterprises. We will implement the national policy of refunding tax on some mechanical and electrical products such as cameras, video cameras and internal combustion engines according to the principle of how much they are levied, ensure timely and full tax refund, and severely crack down on fraudulent tax refund. Actively strive for the country to improve the export tax rebate rate of special products such as hardware products and ceramic sanitary ware in our province. Expand the pilot scope of paperless management of export tax refund (exemption) and fully implement online pre-declaration of export tax refund. (Provincial State Taxation Bureau, responsible for the Provincial Department of Finance)
(seventeen) to promote the facilitation of financial services. We will guide financial institutions to increase their support for small and micro enterprises through policies such as differential reserve, interest rate, refinancing and rediscount. Encourage and support financial institutions to provide loans to foreign trade enterprises with orders and benefits, and expand the scale of mortgage financing and export credit insurance financing based on foreign trade orders, insurance policies and accounts receivable. Relying on the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone and other carrier platforms, we will promote the use of RMB pricing and settlement, further improve the efficiency of cross-border RMB settlement, and accelerate the development of cross-border RMB loans and cross-border RMB payment services by payment institutions. Encourage China Xinbao Guangdong Branch, Export-Import Bank Guangdong Branch and CDB Guangdong Branch to provide financing support for enterprises to build an international marketing and after-sales service network. (People’s Bank of China Guangzhou Branch, Provincial Finance Office, Department of Commerce, Guangdong Banking Regulatory Bureau, China Xinbao Guangdong Branch, Export-Import Bank Guangdong Branch, CDB Guangdong Branch are responsible)
(eighteen) increase support for export credit insurance. Further reduce the average rate of short-term export credit insurance, and pay close attention to evaluating and supporting a number of medium-and long-term insurance projects under the premise of controllable risks. Expand the scale and coverage of export credit insurance, actively implement the special arrangement of export financing insurance for large-scale complete sets of equipment, and ensure all the export financing for large-scale complete sets of equipment. Increase support for export enterprises to insure export insurance and complete sets of equipment and export credit insurance for single machines, agricultural products and emerging markets. Strengthen the protection of credit risk of small and micro enterprises, and vigorously promote the "small and micro enterprises credit insurance". (China Xinbao Guangdong Branch, Provincial Department of Commerce, Financial Office, Guangdong Insurance Regulatory Bureau)
V. Improving the level of customs clearance facilitation
(nineteen) actively promote the innovation of customs clearance mode. Promote the pilot experience of "information exchange, mutual recognition of supervision and mutual assistance in law enforcement" in Guangzhou and Dongguan to promote the reform of customs clearance construction in the province. Further promote the pilot project of "single window" construction of international trade in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Vigorously promote the "one-stop operation" of port inspection and promote the "joint inspection and one-time release" customs clearance mode. Expand the applicable ports of the "cross-border one lock" plan. We will carry out in-depth reforms of "Easy Customs Clearance in internet plus" and "Standard Handling of Abnormal Situations". Comprehensively promote paperless customs clearance operations. Promote the standardization of customs supervision sites and centralized inspection and quarantine sites in the province. Accelerate the construction of a unified Guangdong electronic port and port monitoring system platform, and provide a public sharing platform for data exchange and safety supervision for the reform and innovation of customs clearance mode. (Provincial Port Office, Guangdong Branch of Customs, Guangdong, Shenzhen and Zhuhai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureaus, Provincial Public Security Frontier Inspection Corps, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Shantou Frontier Inspection Stations, and Guangdong Maritime Safety Administration)
(twenty) optimize the inspection methods of exit commodities at the port. Optimize the inspection supervision mode, actively improve the technical conditions for customs clearance facilitation, promote the "double random" spot check mechanism of randomly selecting the inspected objects and randomly selecting inspectors, gradually increase the proportion of non-invasive inspection and machine inspection, improve the pertinence and effectiveness of inspection, and further reduce the average inspection rate of customs exports. Strengthen classification guidance, focus on reducing the inspection rate for export enterprises with high credit certification, and increase the inspection intensity for export enterprises with poor credit. (Guangdong Branch of Customs, responsible for entry-exit inspection and quarantine bureaus in Guangdong, Shenzhen and Zhuhai)
(twenty-one) the implementation of the country of origin and other policies to benefit enterprises. Do a good job in the promotion and implementation of preferential policies for the origin of China-South Korea, China-Australia and other free trade agreements, and simplify the declaration procedures for certificates of origin. Strengthen the protection of products of ecological origin, improve the brand image of featured products in our province, and enhance international competitiveness. (Guangdong, Shenzhen, Zhuhai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, Guangdong Branch of Customs)
(twenty-two) to strengthen port exchanges and cooperation. Promote the development of international rail-sea multimodal transport, speed up the improvement of the port function of Dongguan Shilong Railway International Logistics Center, strengthen cooperation with border areas such as Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, improve the operation level of "Central Europe" trains, and promote the convenient transit and customs clearance of "Guangdong-Manchuria-Russia" and "Guangdong-New Europe" international container trains. Organize port customs clearance environment promotion and port logistics promotion and exchange activities in countries along the "Belt and Road" to promote port and shipping logistics cooperation with relevant countries. (Provincial Port Office, Department of Transportation, Guangdong Branch of Customs, Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureaus of Guangdong, Shenzhen and Zhuhai, and Guangdong Maritime Safety Administration are responsible)
Sixth, optimize the foreign trade business environment
(twenty-three) to further clean up and standardize the fees charged by enterprises involved in foreign trade. Implement the "Overall Plan for Supply-side Structural Reform in Guangdong Province (2016-2018) and Five Action Plans" and do a good job in helping enterprises reduce costs. Intensify the efforts to clean up and rectify the charges in import and export links, and cancel the fees and charges that are ultra vires and self-reliant. Improve the positive list of import and export business service charges, strengthen supervision and inspection of import and export charges, and establish a long-term supervision mechanism. Implement the charging target list system and the "Port Charging Measures" and establish a working mechanism to crack down on illegal charges. Intensify the investigation and punishment of e-government platform fees, and carry out a comprehensive inspection of e-government platforms of customs, entry-exit inspection and quarantine, taxation, commerce and other departments according to the unified national arrangements. In-depth promotion of customs inspection links to avoid the comprehensive pilot of hoisting, shifting and warehousing costs for foreign trade enterprises without problems, and reduce the customs clearance costs of foreign trade enterprises. Accelerate the integration of cargo port charges into port construction fees. Implement the national policy that the export of electrical and electronic products that meet the policy conditions can be exempted from the disposal fund of waste electrical and electronic products according to regulations. (Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Department of Finance, Department of Transportation, Department of Commerce (Port Office), Guangdong Branch of Customs, Guangdong, Shenzhen and Zhuhai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureaus, and Guangdong Maritime Safety Administration are responsible)
(twenty-four) improve the foreign trade management mechanism. Further simplify the certification procedures, strive for state support, and delegate all the authority for issuing non-electromechanical automatic import licenses in our province to various cities. Explore and improve the access and exit mechanism for the export management right of live livestock and poultry for Hong Kong and Macao, improve the distribution method of export quotas for live livestock and poultry for Hong Kong and Macao in the province, and encourage advantageous enterprises to expand exports. (Responsible by the Provincial Department of Commerce)
(twenty-five) to strengthen intellectual property protection. Support the establishment of overseas rights protection alliances and overseas rights protection platforms. Carry out patent early warning analysis of key export products in our province, and guide enterprises to guard against and deal with intellectual property risks. Cultivate and support a number of high-end intellectual property service institutions. Accelerate the construction and improvement of the assistance system for intellectual property rights protection, and guide relevant industry associations to strengthen intellectual property self-discipline and carry out foreign-related responses. Innovate customs enforcement mode of intellectual property rights, strengthen customs protection of intellectual property rights, and maintain fair competition in foreign trade order. Establish an early warning and monitoring platform for trade friction, properly handle trade friction cases, and achieve full coverage of legal aid support for enterprises involved. Further strengthen the cultivation, management and assessment of provincial fair trade workstations, and explore the establishment of an industrial safety early warning system. Strengthen the research and response of foreign technical trade measures, and actively help enterprises to effectively deal with the impact of foreign technical trade measures. (Provincial Department of Commerce, Intellectual Property Office, Guangdong Branch of Customs, Guangdong, Shenzhen and Zhuhai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureaus are responsible)
All localities should further raise awareness, strengthen the organization and leadership in promoting the stabilization and improvement of foreign trade, earnestly implement the document No.27 [2016] of the State Council and this implementation plan, and introduce targeted supporting measures in light of the actual situation in the region to promote the implementation of various policies and measures. All relevant departments should clarify the division of responsibilities, strengthen coordination and cooperation, pay close attention to formulating the implementation rules of relevant national and provincial policies and measures, and make early deployment and implementation. The Provincial Department of Commerce should conscientiously do a good job in overall coordination and follow-up supervision, decompose the responsibility for the steady growth of foreign trade and structural adjustment to governments at all levels and relevant departments, earnestly strengthen the analysis and judgment of the foreign trade operation situation, organize special supervision in a timely manner, regularly report the progress of the work, and promptly invite the units with poor work to the provincial government for interviews, so as to fully realize the stabilization and improvement of foreign trade in our province.
