Municipal and district people's governments, Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou High-tech Zone and Taicang Port Management Committee; The relevant departments and units of the city:
In order to thoroughly implement the spirit of the important instructions on resolutely winning the epidemic prevention and control war, fully implement the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee, the State Council, the provincial party committee and the provincial government on epidemic prevention and control, actively play the important role of foreign trade enterprises in epidemic prevention and control, and support the stable development of foreign trade enterprises, the following policy opinions are formulated (hereinafter referred to as "Su Twelve Articles" to support the stable development of foreign trade enterprises).
First, increase financial support.
(a) to support the import of epidemic prevention and control materials in short supply. Support the import of medical protective masks (N95), disposable medical surgical masks, protective masks, protective glasses (anti-fog), disposable isolation gown (anti-seepage) and disposable protective clothing and other epidemic prevention and control materials. For enterprises to import the above-mentioned shortage of epidemic prevention and control materials, import subsidies will be given with reference to the national advanced technology and equipment import discount policy. (Responsible units: Municipal Finance Bureau and Municipal Bureau of Commerce)
(two) increase the import and export credit insurance subsidies. Through the mode of "full government support, credit guarantee, fee reduction and exemption, enterprises can import with confidence", the import of epidemic prevention materials is guaranteed. The premium rate of imported advance payment insured by imported epidemic prevention materials enterprises is reduced by 50%, and the premium subsidy is 100%. Encourage enterprises to insure export credit insurance for cross-border electronic commerce business, reduce the corresponding insurance rate by 30%, and subsidize the premium expenditure by 50%. (Responsible units: Municipal Finance Bureau, Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Suzhou Office of China Export Credit Insurance Corporation)
(3) Increase financing support for foreign trade enterprises. Support the Export-Import Bank to innovate the "bailout fund" business in Suzhou, and give batch support to import and export enterprises that have temporary difficulties due to the epidemic, with a quota of 2 billion yuan; Support the Export-Import Bank to carry out policy-based credit fund-to-loan business with city commercial banks, rural commercial banks and national joint-stock commercial banks under the jurisdiction of Suzhou, with a focus on supporting a number of small and micro foreign trade enterprises with a quota of 654.38 billion yuan. The interest rate is lower than the loan market quotation level in the same period. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Municipal Financial Supervision Bureau, Suzhou Zhongzhi Sub-branch of China People's Bank, Suzhou Banking Supervision Branch)
Two. Ensure the production and operation of foreign trade enterprises.
(4) Stabilize the on-hand orders of foreign trade enterprises. Strengthen the supervision and guidance of epidemic prevention and control, support all localities to do a good job in providing support services for enterprises to return to work, encourage enterprises to prepare for returning to work on the premise of prevention and control, and ensure the smooth performance of import and export contracts. For possible delayed delivery, mobilize enterprises to communicate with major customers and guide enterprises to do their best to win and stabilize orders in their hands. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security)
(5) Ensure the smooth logistics and transportation of enterprises. Assist foreign trade enterprises to solve the prevention and control problems such as material security, raw material supply, logistics and transportation, and coordinate and solve them one by one in the way of "one enterprise, one policy". Implement the policy of "green channel for import and export enterprises" to ensure the uninterrupted supply of supporting materials and the whole industrial chain for foreign trade enterprises. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Commerce and Municipal Transportation Bureau)
Three. Encourage foreign trade enterprises to explore domestic and foreign markets.
(6) expanding the scale of imports. Give full play to the import function of Central Europe (Suzhou), the import function of cross-border e-commerce and the carrier advantage of national import platform, increase the import scale of agricultural products, medicines and resource products, and ensure market supply. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Suzhou Customs)
(seven) support enterprises to export goods to domestic sales. During the epidemic period, the domestic trade credit insurance rate insured by foreign trade enterprises will be lowered by 30%, and the premium subsidy will be 50%. (Responsible units: Municipal Finance Bureau, Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Suzhou Office of China Export Credit Insurance Corporation)
(8) Subsidize the booth fees for overseas exhibitions that have occurred. For foreign trade enterprises that can't normally participate in overseas exhibitions and incur booth fees during the epidemic period, they can refer to the overseas participation clauses in the Notice of the Office of the Municipal Government on Printing and Distributing Several Policies for Promoting High-level, Open and High-quality Business Development in Suzhou (No.[20 19] 127) and give corresponding subsidies to help enterprises reduce losses. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Commerce and Municipal Finance Bureau)
Four. Promote trade facilitation
(nine) the certificate of origin is subject to "application without meeting". For enterprises applying for the certificate of origin for the first time, the filing materials of export commodities shall be declared in PDF format. Among them, the field verification method of preferential certificate of origin is changed to provide video or picture format of product production process. Implement instant application, instant opening and self-service printing of certificate of origin application, and realize the whole process of "application without meeting". (Responsible units: Suzhou Committee of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Suzhou Customs)
(10) Issue the force majeure certificate in time. Enterprises that fail to perform international trade contracts on schedule due to epidemic situation and other reasons may apply to Suzhou Committee of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade for proof of force majeure. Suzhou Committee of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade provides convenient measures such as online face-to-face handling and mailing certificates. , try our best to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises. (Responsible unit: Suzhou Committee of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade)
(eleven) to ensure the rapid customs clearance of epidemic prevention and control materials. Set up special windows and green channels for fast customs clearance of imported prevention and control materials, and deliver imported drugs, disinfectants, protective articles and medical devices for epidemic prevention and control at one time to ensure "zero delay" in customs clearance. Imported donated materials shall be exempted from import duties, import value-added tax and consumption tax on the basis of the tax exemption certificate of import and export goods issued by the customs where the recipient or user is located. For medical materials involved in epidemic prevention and control, the customs can release them first with the certificate of the drug supervision department, and then reissue the certificate. Under special circumstances, the imported prevention and control materials can be registered and released first, and then the relevant procedures can be handled. (Responsible unit: Suzhou Customs)
(twelve) to temporarily extend the summary tax payment period and adjust the start date of the late payment fee and the late payment fee. For the summary tax return filed in June 5438 +2020 10, the enterprise can complete the summary electronic payment of tax payable before February 24. The tax payment letter with the tax payment period from February 3, 2020 to the date when the People's Government of Jiangsu Province announced the resumption of work can be postponed to 15 days after the date of resumption of work. With reference to Article 17 of the Measures of People's Republic of China (PRC) and People's Republic of China (PRC) Customs on Delayed Declaration and Payment of Imported Goods, the collection date will be postponed to the date of resumption of work announced by Jiangsu Provincial People's Government. (Responsible unit: Suzhou Customs)
The implementation period of this policy is tentatively set at three months from the date of policy release. The central government and the province issued relevant support policies, and Suzhou followed suit. This policy is interpreted by the Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Finance Bureau and other relevant departments.
Suzhou Municipal People's Government
February 7(th), 2020