ASEAN Trade Leads Brilliant Achievements In Shantou'S Foreign Trade Development

In the first 2 months of 2015, Shantou's import and export value to ASEAN was 1 billion 830 million yuan, up 5.7% over the same period last year. Of them, exports were 1 billion 100 million yuan, an increase of 16.8%, and imports of 730 million yuan, a decrease of 7.5%, accounting for 21.3% of the total import and export value of Shantou in the same period.

Data show that private enterprises are the backbone of Shantou's trade with ASEAN. In the 2010-2014 year, the total import and export value of Shantou's private enterprises to ASEAN was 33 billion 850 million yuan, accounting for 72.6% of the total value of Shantou's imports and exports to ASEAN in the same period, with an average annual growth rate of 18.8%, accounting for 79.7% from the 64.5% in 2010 to 79.7% in 2014.

In the same period, the status of the general trade mode has increased continuously.

In the general trade mode, the total import and export volume of ASEAN was 37 billion 360 million yuan, an average annual increase of 17.2%, representing a further increase from 75.2% in 2010 to 87.9% in 2014.

The import and export status of foreign investment enterprises and processing trade patterns showed a downward trend.

From the perspective of trade commodity structure, exports, toys since 2010

Shantou has always maintained the top 2 export commodities to ASEAN, accounting for about 5 of the total two. In addition, Shantou accounts for about 2 of the export of electromechanical products to ASEAN.

On the import side, the proportion of primary plastic products as the main import commodities increased from 39% in 2010 to 49.6% in 2014, indicating that the downstream industries such as toys developed faster in Shantou, and the other main imports were coal and lignite, which maintained a positive growth for 5 consecutive years.

Customs analysis shows that

Although leading Shantou's foreign trade, the challenges and opportunities still exist in the future. On the one hand, some of the main economic entities in ASEAN are large, small and scattered, and their economic development is greatly influenced by external environment. In recent years, capital flight, stock market decline and financial market turbulence have more obvious impact on ASEAN economy. At the same time, ASEAN countries have great differences in policy environment, port clearance and other aspects, which will increase the difficulty and risk of "going out".

On the other hand, in March 28th, the national development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of foreign affairs and the Ministry of Commerce jointly issued the "vision and action to promote the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the maritime Silk Road in twenty-first Century", and put forward "strengthening the port construction of 15 cities in Shanghai, Tianjin, Shantou, Qingdao and other coastal areas". It clears up the important node status of Shantou in the "one belt and one road", and coordinates with the construction of the overseas Chinese economic and cultural cooperation experimental area. Shantou will have more "articles" to ASEAN trade.

The Shantou customs will respond to local development needs, focus on implementing the "three mutual" and promote the construction of large customs clearance, and steadily promote the reform of regional customs integration, customs inspection cooperation, "three one", no customs clearance and other reform projects, promote customs clearance, and further strengthen port management, do business support work, and strengthen Customs Statistics services, so as to promote Shantou's foreign trade development.