Our city strives to assist enterprises in exploring diversified international markets

From: Lianyungang Daily Updated: 2023-11-20 09:10

Recently, Jiangsu Sinopep-Allsino Biopharmaceutical Co Ltd. has been successfully approved APOSTILLE by the Municipal Council for the Promotion of International Trade. The entire application process only took 3 working days, saving half of the consular certification fees and greatly facilitating the drug registration process for enterprises. In recent years, our city has focused on the development needs of “going global” for enterprises, making efforts in providing policies, offering excellent services, and solving difficult problems to help enterprises explore diversified international markets.

“Starting from November 7th, the Convention on the Cancellation of the Certification Requirements for Foreign Official Documents was officially implemented in China, and since then, China has officially become a member state of the Hague Convention. As a member state of the Hague Convention, there is no need to apply for consular authentication documents, as long as the Hague authentication - additional certificate required by the Convention is approved.” According to Yu, a staff member of the Municipal Council for the Promotion of International Trade, APOSTILLE is based on the Hague Convention in 1961, a certification established between member countries (regions) to ensure mutual recognition of documents, which serves to prove the authenticity of documents and give them corresponding legal effect abroad. Although APOSTILLE and consular certification have equal effectiveness, the former has more advantages in terms of certification fees, time and process. In recent years, pharmaceutical companies in our city have been accelerating their overseas layout and development. In order to ensure that good policies can benefit enterprises in a timely manner, the Municipal Council for the Promotion of International Trade has ly sped up its promotion of the Hague Convention and additional certificate businesses, actively offering policies to customers and promoting the implementation and effectiveness of preferential policies for enterprises.

Policy implementation is fast, and commercial services are also being optimized. In September of this year, our city’s economic and trade delegation of Central Asian market participated in Jiangsu—Almaty Economic and Trade Exchange and Matchmaking Conference in Kazakhstan. Rongyuxin New Materials Co., Ltd. successfully established contact with clients such as Aksu Ferroalloy Factory and Aktobin Alloy Factory in Kazakhstan. Hou Zhonghua, the general manager of the company, introduced that their overseas clients were previously concentrated in Indonesia and they urgently needed to visit new customers and seek new overseas business opportunities. The needs of enterprises are a major concern of government departments. After understanding the demands of the enterprise, the Municipal Bureau of Commerce, in conjunction with its actual functions, has established multiple channels to bridge the gap for enterprises. “Kazakhstan is a major country in chromium iron and nickel iron resources. With the help of the Bureau of Commerce, we have rediscovered the market here, and the related expenses of this event are also subsidized by 70%. This trip is worthwhile!” Hou Zhonghua said. After the 8-day economic and trade activity, based on the cooperation results and intentions reached with enterprises from Central Asian countries, the Municipal Bureau of Commerce listed the demands of 11 enterprises in 13 categories of services. Selecting high-quality logistics freight forwarders for Rongyuxin New Materials Co., Ltd. to ensure the smooth export of products to the Central Asian market through railway trains is exactly one of the items on the list.

In order to provide more detailed, thoughtful and convenient services for enterprises, the municipal commerce department utilizes the “accompanied visit” Jiangsu Going Global Comprehensive Service Platform of the Provincial Department of Commerce to provide our city's enterprises with policy consultation and business processing before going global as well as various supporting policies, risk prevention measures after going global. And effective resources in projects, finance, law, talent, and other aspects that enterprises need are also offered, boosting their enthusiasm and confidence in going global. In order to help enterprises expand new forms of foreign trade and vigorously promote new cross-border trade and cross-border e-commerce business, our city conducts large-scale training for cross-border e-commerce enterprises to help them understand changes in the international market, prevent trade risks, assist enterprises in exploring the international market, reduce operating costs, and improve product competitiveness in the international market.

Since this year, the needs of enterprises in our city to explore emerging markets along the “Belt and Road” have been released in a centralized way. Enterprises are increasingly willing to participate in overseas order competition, run exhibitions, build overseas warehouses and connect with cross-border e-commerce… The competitiveness of products is also constantly enhancing. Next, our city will continue to do a good job in providing “going global” services for enterprises, continuously optimize the service list, timely address enterprise demands, increase policy support, and assist enterprises in actively exploring the international market.