Welcome the integration of industry and trade in foreign trade industry

Source: China Trade News Author: Our reporter Liu Guomin 2024-03-15 08:38:30

Two recent pieces of news in the foreign trade industry are thought-provoking. First, located in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, export-oriented Zhongtuo clothing orders have been scheduled to June this year, the company is also a representative of the local "5G+ smart factory" technological transformation of industry and trade integrated enterprises. Second, a Hangzhou foreign trade business owners said that this year to try to buy into the head of the factory, and strive to make product quality more stable, and his two peers are actively trying to buy into his factory, "if you do not buy into it is difficult to receive orders, now do foreign trade without factory background is really difficult."

Generally speaking, foundries, pure commercial foreign trade enterprises and industrial and trade type foreign trade enterprises are several basic types of market players in the field of foreign trade in China. For whether the factory has more advantages in foreign trade or the pure commercial foreign trade enterprises have more advantages in foreign trade, the foreign trade industry has different opinions, and there is no standard answer. However, they combined with their own foreign trade experience and analysis, reflecting the basic fact that factories do foreign trade advantages and disadvantages, and pure commercial foreign trade enterprises do foreign trade advantages and disadvantages. Foreign trade enterprises and practitioners can only adjust among these types according to the development and change of the environment and situation, expand advantages and make up for shortcomings, in order to better meet the needs of the international market, thus enhancing the competitiveness of enterprises.

The foreign trade environment and situation have developed to the present, and the international market has increasingly high requirements for the stability of the supply chain of foreign trade enterprises. This makes the pure commercial foreign trade enterprises in the past to rely on a number of processing plants back and forth price comparison, proofing, negotiation, scheduling, quality control, delivery, payment of a set of processes, not only the transaction cost is high, and the process is cumbersome and lengthy, uncertain and unstable factors, quality control and delivery on time there are risks. Some foreign trade enterprises therefore adjust. American economist Coase believes that the enterprise is an organization to replace the market for resource allocation, and the high cost of market contracts makes some transactions adopt the intra-enterprise transaction mode. This theoretically explains the reasons behind the current phenomenon of some commercial foreign trade enterprises investing in factories. By taking shares and investing in factories, commercial enterprises make themselves a full-size enterprise of industry and trade, making the production process internalized and more controllable, while making their supply chain more stable and safe, and product quality more controllable.

In this trend, such as Zhongtuo clothing, Tianjin Jurong Group, such as industry and trade of a body of foreign trade enterprises have obvious competitive advantages. This kind of industry and trade type foreign trade enterprises combine the advantages of factories with the advantages of commercial foreign trade enterprises to form a compound competitive advantage. In this way, the potential and resilience of such foreign trade enterprises are indeed considerable. After visiting a number of industry and trade foreign trade enterprises, the author found that there is another advantage of industry and trade foreign trade enterprises, which is that the whole process display of products and development history is very complete and very appealing. For example, the hall on the first floor of the headquarters of an industrial and trade foreign trade enterprise shows the samples of the earliest products produced by the enterprise, as well as the year and the scene of the first foreign trade business, and how the needs and feedback of foreign trade business partners have gradually changed the production line and production characteristics of the enterprise, and how the thinking mode of the enterprise management has gradually changed. The person in charge said with emotion, "The company's foreign trade business is not only a piece of business, but mainly from the aspects of ideology, vision, vision, etc., deeply inspired those of us who originally engaged in production in the county."

It can be seen that this phenomenon of industrial and trade integration in the foreign trade industry is also a good thing for the development of China's manufacturing industry, which is conducive to enterprises to open up various information and needs at the production end, circulation end and consumption end in a more timely and efficient manner, and carry out frequent interactive feedback, so that production, circulation and consumption links can learn from each other in higher quality. The resulting good examples and innovations can also give more inspiration to other foreign trade enterprises.

Responsible Editor: Ge Yan