What are the duties of a foreign trade import and export agency?

What are the duties of a foreign trade import and export agency?

With the development of the times, people have a certain understanding of foreign trade agency, but most people do not know its characteristics and business classification. Foreign trade agency is not a panacea, let’s interpret what function does a foreign trade agency have?

  1. What is a foreign trade agency?

The so-called foreign trade agency refers to the practice that foreign trade companies sign import and export contracts on behalf of domestic customers and buyers in their name, and charge prescribed fees and commissions. my country’s foreign trade enterprises have implemented the procurement system in exports since a long time ago. The company exports it to its own account and is responsible for its own profit and loss. One of the main purposes of implementing the foreign trade agency system is to change the traditional practice in the past. That is to say, the foreign trade company accepts orders from domestic buyers, signs export contracts on its behalf, and handles exports on its behalf. The domestic purchaser shall be responsible for collecting the fees stipulated in the contract and collecting the profits and losses. The main benefits of this reform are: national suppliers understand the needs of the international product market, encourage them to improve the quality of their export products, improve competitiveness and currency export capacity, and improve production and supply. The state sector encourages improved management and economic benefits to fulfill the responsibility of export contracts. At the same time, it can reduce the financial burden of foreign trade enterprises to ensure the source of export goods, and make the operation methods of foreign trade enterprises more flexible and diverse. This is very beneficial for industry and commerce.

  1. What is a foreign trade agency? What are its main responsibilities?

Import and export foreign trade agency is a foreign trade agency. Many also classify customs brokers as foreign trade agencies. Import and export customs declaration is actually one of the links in the agency activities of foreign trade agency companies. No, you can only process customs declarations. .

As a foreign trade agent, we can provide customers with one-stop agency services such as international procurement services, import and export customs declaration, inspection declaration, international transportation agency, warehousing and distribution services, and related business consulting companies. Products are widely used in petroleum, chemical, electric power, metallurgy, machinery, textile, automobile, environmental protection, network, medical equipment and other industrial fields. Except for national bans and military projects, most of the business can be represented by customers. For some products with specific requirements, we can provide import and export agency services if the customer company meets the requirements and qualifications.

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