Freight forwarding industry should seize the opportunity to go to the free trade zone
International Trade and economic cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce Institute of international trade in services, said Li Gang, director of the forum, with the gradual promotion of the FTA strategy, China's international freight forwarding companies will face new opportunities and challenges.
New progress in the FTA Strategy
With the rapid development of economic regional integration, it is a strategic choice for China to take advantage of the opportunity to integrate with the trend and build the regional economic cooperation work with the core of China's free trade zone.
According to Li Gang introduction, at present, 9 free trade agreement signed include: Chinese - Swiss FTA, Chinese - Iceland FTA, FTA, China China - Costa Rica - Peru FTA, as well as in "one country two systems under the work of" one country four WTO tickets FTA. Talking about the free trade agreement and 6, including FTA, China Chinese - GCC - Australia, China - South Korea FTA.
At present, the main characteristics of China's FTA negotiations are: d on the surrounding, and gradually expand; South upgrade, North South break; from easy to difficult, step by step; to expand the field, rich connotation." Li Gang also said that the FTA negotiations still face some challenges, including the WTO21 century new topics in the TISA, a new generation of FTA - TPP, TTIP promote the further opening of the industry, the industry injury response, risk control and coordination.
Turning to the future prospects of the FTA negotiations, Li Gang said that the FTA negotiations on China's opening up and development, as well as to enhance the international competitiveness is very important. The future, the general trend of the FTA negotiations is to expand the scope of the partnership, expanding the proportion of trade, for a greater breakthrough, the existing deepening should be upgraded, consider WTO+, and gradually close to FTA2.0.
To this end, Li Gang recommended strategy and path is d on the surrounding, comprehensive planning, complementary advantages, mutual benefit and win-win, comprehensive consideration, long-term plan, take advantage of the initiative to adjust, to distinguish between primary and secondary, flexible processing.
Opportunities and challenges of freight forwarding enterprises
International freight forwarding logistics as an important part of the foreign trade industry, in the context of China's FTA negotiations continue to advance, faced with opportunities and challenges of the situation.
In terms of opportunity, Li Gang believes that one is to build the whole industry chain, collaborative development. Last year to this year, the Ministry of Commerce in conjunction with the central bank, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Social Sciences, as well as a number of relevant departments to do some research on the global value chain. In fact, both the value chain and the industry chain are now global. As one of the chain of logistics enterprises, logistics companies should also put themselves in this chain to consider the development of business.
The two is the FTA1.0 version most contain the content of service trade, therefore, enterprises should deepen the implementation, make full use of existing agreements, expand the export of service trade; second is upgrading, looking for business opportunities and new growth point in the expansion of the service trade field.
Three is the development of cross-border integration. Due to the development of the Internet, and now the cloud computing, big data, mobile Internet, Internet of things, social media, smart city, the new technology is already all of the integration of all industries. In this process, our freight forwarding logistics companies will also benefit.
Four is to "go out" to expand the commercial existence. Trade in service trade is different from the main characteristics of goods trade.
As for the challenge, Li Gang think mainly from 3 aspects, including the market opening, the field of industry is open; market access, the degree of openness of the conditions; domestic regulation, the implementation of departmental regulations. For these problems, enterprises should actively respond to.
