Statistics from the Quanzhou Customs Office in Shishi show that benefiting from favorable policies, the performance of the Shishi Garment City market procurement trade pilot has achieved continuous and substantial growth. Statistics show that from January to April this year, the export volume of Shishi Garment City’s market procurement and trade was 11.58 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1.4 times.
As the first national procurement trade pilot in Fujian Province, Shishi Garment City Market is developing rapidly, which vigorously promotes the construction of a new export-oriented business pattern, and instill new momentum for the high-quality development of foreign trade in Shishi and Quanzhou City. At present, the main export commodities of Shishi Garment City Market procurement trade pilot are mechanical and electrical products, ceramic products, plastic products, shoes, textile and clothing, etc. By the end of April 2021, 1,464 new procurement entities in the pilot market of Shishi Garment City have been put on record, with a total of 25,475.
The relevant person in charge of Quanzhou Customs stated that it will further innovate the pilot supervision method of procurement trade, continue to optimize the business environment, cooperate with local commerce and other departments to help enterprises expand the markets of countries and RCEP member countries of the “Belt and Road”, and explore market procurement and cross-border e-commerce development integration of new forms of foreign trade, and leverage the advantages of the “market procurement +” policy to help new foreign trade formats such as market procurement, trade and export continue to improve.