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Further strengthen the import, promote the development of foreign trade balance, co-ordinate the use of both domestic and international markets and resources to ease the resources and environment bottleneck pressure to speed up technological progress and innovation to improve the level of consumption, and reduce trade friction, have strategic significance. This is the inevitable requirement of scientific development, transformation of economic development, is the basic task of the current and next period’s foreign trade. Now make the following observations:

First, guiding ideology, basic principles and the main task

(a) Guiding ideology. Deng Xiaoping Theory and “Three Represents” as guidance, thoroughly implement the scientific concept of development, scientific development, to accelerate the transformation of economic development as the main line at the same time to maintain stable export growth, more emphasis on imports, and expand the size of imports, and promote basic balance of foreign trade, foreign trade and sustainable development.

(b) Basic principles. Adhere to the development of import and export co-ordination to promote foreign trade balance, to maintain stable growth in import and export. Adhere to the import and coordination of domestic industry development, promote industrial upgrading, and maintenance of industrial safety. Adhere to the import and expanding domestic demand combining to promote domestic and foreign trade integration, and promote the expansion of consumption. Adhere to the import and “going out”, broaden the import channels to ensure a steady supply of. Adhere to the market mechanism and policies to guide the combination, give full play to the role of market players, to improve the systems and policies to promote fair competition.

(c) The main task. Further optimization of the import commodity structure, stability and guide the import of commodities and actively expand imports of advanced technology and equipment, key parts and raw materials, energy, and a moderate expansion of imports of consumer goods. Further optimization of the importing country and regional structure, from least developed countries import conditions are consistent with multilateral trade rules to encourage expansion of imports from developing countries to expand imports from developed countries. Further optimize our import trade structure, to encourage direct trade, and enhance their ability to stabilize the import, support qualified domestic enterprises to “go out”.

Second, and increase fiscal and tax policy support

(d) Adjust import tariffs on some commodities. According to the needs of the domestic economic and social development, the proposed tax, the lower part of the energy and raw material import tariffs, due to lower some of the people’s living standards are closely related to daily import tariffs, adjust some of the advanced technology and equipment, key parts import tariff focus on reducing primary energy raw materials and strategic emerging industries not required for domestic production or performance can not meet the needs of key parts of the import tariffs. Continue to implement from least developed countries, some of the goods imported zero-tariff treatment to speed up tariff reduction process, to further expand the range of zero-tariff goods; combination of the Free Trade Area tariff arrangements, and guide enterprises to expand imports from the side of a member of the Free Trade Area.

(5) Increase imports to promote the size of funds. On the basis of the existing foreign trade and economic development funds, it increases the arrangements for imports for the support funds. Interest subsidies for the country to encourage imports of products, timely adjustment of the range of discount products support. Support a variety of business platforms to expand the import function, and to encourage all kinds of import promotion and other public services. Continue to support efforts to increase imports from developing countries.
Third, strengthen and improve financial services

(6) Provide a wide range of financing facility. Imports reasonable demand for credit in line with national industrial policy and credit conditions, and actively provide credit support. Encourage commercial banks to carry out the import credit business, to support the advanced technology and equipment, key parts, and energy and raw material imports. Encourage policy banks to support high-tech products and resource imports of goods within the scope of business. Further broaden the import financing channels for enterprises, encourage and support eligible enterprises through issuing stocks, corporate bonds, short-term financing bills, medium-term notes, etc. to expand direct financing. Research the national reserve system, improve the strategic resources to support and encourage enterprises to establish commercial reserves.

(7) Improve the system of import credit insurance and trade settlement system. Encourage commercial insurance companies according to business needs, to carry out the import credit insurance business, the introduction of conducive to the expansion of imports of insurance products and services, reduce import risk. Strengthen and improve cross-border RenMinBi trade settlement work convenient specification banks and enterprises to develop the import trade, the RMB settlement business. To further promote trade in goods of foreign exchange management system reform, and provide more convenient services for enterprises to trade foreign exchange receipts and payments, and custom special supervised areas of foreign exchange facilitation measures.

Fouth, improve the level of trade facilitation.

(8) Improve the management measures to further optimize the management of the import links. Clean up the unreasonable restriction of the import measures to reduce the transaction costs of the import link. Reduce automatic import licensing merchandise catalog to actively promote to carry out the online application. Speed up the verification process of the electronic data of automatic import licensing and customs networking, improve the efficiency of online verification, to achieve the scientific supervision and effective supervision

(9) Perfect custom special supervised areas and import management of bonded and supervisory areas. Encourage enterprises in the special customs supervision zones and bonded logistics center set up purchasing centers, distribution centers and distribution centers, to promote the development of bonded logistics health; support enterprises to expand the import of related goods by custom special supervised areas and bonded and supervisory areas. Further regulate the circulation order of custom special supervised areas, and create a fair competitive environment.

(10) Promote the import and domestic distribution of convergence. Encourage and support domestic circulation enterprises involved in international trade, and support qualified enterprises integrate import and domestic distribution business to reduce intermediate links. Encourage domestic commercial business agent for foreign branded consumer products, the development of self-employed sales platform, breaking the monopoly, the achievement of full competition. Reference to international practice, and improve relevant laws and regulations to support the departure duty-free business development. Appropriate to increase the port of drugs and other specific imports of goods to expand import of related products. Qualified inspection and quarantine of imported goods, to enter the domestic market liquidity after the other units are no longer testing, testing.

(11) Promote transformation and upgrading of processing trade. Maintain the overall stability of the processing trade policy, to control high energy consumption, high pollution and low added value of processing trade development, and guide the processing trade to the high-end chain extension, to the Midwest and focus to the special customs supervision areas. To establish a domestic trading platform, guide qualified enterprises to cultivate independent brands and domestic sales channels. Under the premise of strict implementation of relevant import and export tax policy and effective control of environmental pollution, promote the enterprises to carry out domestic goods back to the district maintenance operations under special customs supervision within the region.

(12) Improve the quality and safety of early warning mechanism for industrial damage and imported goods. Monitoring and analysis of international economic developments and changes in import exceptions to the domestic industry, import quantity and price trends for key commodities, regularly publish industry injury early warning report, publish the dynamics of industrial competitiveness, to carry out the survey of industrial competitiveness, industrial security response and impact assessment work to promote fair competition. Further improve the quality and safety of imported goods risk warning and quick response regulatory system.

Fifth, to improve the level of trade facilitation

(13) Further improve the efficiency of customs clearance. Improve customs, quality inspection, foreign exchange and other aspects of supervision and service. Port’s and customs’ special supervision of the regional seat of customs and immigration inspection and quarantine agencies implements 24 hours reservation of customs clearance and inspection. Give high credit enterprises to facilitate customs clearance. Constantly improve the imported goods are classified, at trial, and other management practices. Implementation of the state fee of preferential policies for enterprises and strict implementation of the fees to the public system cleans up the import link of unreasonable charges to further standardize the collection of fees. Enrich the port regulatory power.

(14) The strengthening of border trade, infrastructure construction. Further improve the infrastructure of border crossings, checking the conditions of supervision facilities and infrastructure of border economic cooperation zones, build the set of materials, transport, storage, processing as one of modern logistics system, to improve port handling capacity. To improve border trade point of supporting facilities, to facilitate border trade, the full implementation of economic and trade development policy to promote border areas, and expand economic and trade exchanges with neighboring countries and regions.

(15) Strengthen e-government information platform construction. Continue to promote the construction of the “customs clearance” to speed up the electronic port construction. Promote the standardization of trade documents and electronic processes, the promotion of trade documents and information between various departments interoperability and sharing of supervisory information, import and export goods, “an entry, are reported separately under the unified model. Improve the imported goods technical regulations and conformity assessment information consulting services platform. Play a leading role in support of local people’s governments around the establishment of an information service platform.
Sixth, strengthen organizational leadership.

(16) Improve the import of public services. Promote the establishment of import dedicated web site and other public service platform to strengthen information dissemination, policy, information inquiries, complaints of barriers to trade, intellectual property protection and other public services. Foster national imports promote innovation demonstration zone, and give full play to the import trade cluster area expansion of the exemplary and leading role of imports. Held regularly on imports forums, exchange of market information strengthens the import policy advocacy. Support the trade deficit with China’s large countries and regions in China hold goods exhibitions, fairs and other promotional activities.

(17) Play the role of intermediary organizations. Encourage and support trade promotion agency, import and export chambers of commerce, trade associations and other intermediary organizations needed to carry out the import of consulting and training services. Play an intermediary role of the Organization, to strengthen dialogue and communication with relevant organizations and enterprises of the commodity exporters. Strengthen cooperation and international securities and futures institutions, improve the international market of commodity voice and pricing. Strengthen the guidance on key import enterprise and industry, the timely release of relevant information, increase import promotion.

(18) Strengthen the organization and implementation. All regions and relevant departments should further unify their thinking, adjust the “prize limit into the” out Yan Jin, ideas and policies, adhere to both imports and exports, to insist on the close coordination of tariff and trade policies, in accordance with the views requirements and the division of functions, will promptly formulate specific measures to implement the tax, financial, and management support policies. Further improve the working mechanism, strengthen interaction and cooperation in policy coordination, communications, and concerted efforts to actively expand import and to promote the balanced development of foreign trade, and make new contributions to promote sound and rapid development of China’s economic and social.

State Council
April 30, 2012