Vice Minister Jiang Yaoping 23 in the State Council Information Office held a press conference that China's foreign trade is facing a sluggish external demand, rising costs of concentrate, such as multiple pressures of international competition, foreign trade growth rate or slightly down. "Transfer mode , adjusting structure, promoting co-ordination 'has become current and future focus of the work of foreign trade for some time, this year from five to promote foreign trade growth pattern.

Actively expand import

In the first seven months, China's export growth rate was 23.4%, import growth of 26.9%, imports grew faster than export growth of 3.5 percentage points.'s Foreign trade surplus of $ 76.21 billion, down 8.7%.

In this regard, the Ministry of Commerce Foreign Trade said Wen Zhongliang, deputy director of China's foreign policy has consistently emphasized the trade balance does not pursue trade surplus. Regardless of resource commodities, technology or critical equipment in the future these needs will further increase. the future will be more attention to foreign trade import and export balance and coordination development, further from the policy, to encourage active and effective measures to expand imports, including fiscal policy, the Ministry of Commerce would actively and effectively promote the import of further study, and will work with relevant departments to actively promote import trade facilitation.

Jiang Yaoping that this year the Ministry of Commerce in conjunction with relevant departments to further examine the adjustment of import tariffs to facilitate imports of some products during the first half of the country twice to adjust the provisional import tariff rates, lower oil products including 673 kinds of products, including the provisional import tariff In addition, the Ministry of Commerce has been in conjunction with the customs, quality inspection departments to extend the appointment of customs clearance and inspection, improve customs clearance efficiency and to promote the inter-trade documents information interoperability for enterprises to create a convenient and efficient import business environment.

Changes in trade promotion

Jiang Yaoping said the current international economic environment was more complex, the world economic recovery, increased uncertainty and instability, the debt crisis in developed countries, including China's vast emerging market countries to increase the pressure and challenges. The current development of China's foreign trade is facing sluggish external demand, rising costs of centralized, multiple pressures of international competition.

Jiang Yaoping said that this year from five to promote foreign trade growth pattern, first, actively expand import and promote trade balance, trade facilitation to improve the level of use of various forms to conduct future trade promotion activities, and actively organizing enterprises participate in investment and trade promotion work; second in the country to promote transformation and upgrading of foreign trade model based development work; Third, to foster the export brand and enhance China-made image, the implementation of its own brand image improvement projects, and actively expand the brand Fair booth; Fourth, focus on improving the quality and efficiency of foreign trade goods, exports to Africa to combat counterfeiting and infringement of intellectual property products specific work; fifth, to promote transformation and upgrading of processing trade, improve the processing trade category management, while actively promoting the beads Triangle upgrading of processing trade demonstration area and Suzhou, Dongguan, transformation and upgrading of processing trade to promote the pilot work, and guide the gradient transfer of processing trade, so trade can promote the balanced development of the region.

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