What is a foreign trade agent? What is the agency responsible for?

As the name implies, a foreign trade agent is simply a company that helps enterprises or individuals without import and export qualifications to provide foreign trade services. Individuals don't have a company, or they have a company but don't have the right to operate import and export, or they don't want to use their own company for import and export trade. You can rely on the person in charge of the foreign trade agent to carry out customs declaration/inspection, help with customs clearance, collect foreign exchange payment, settle foreign exchange on its behalf, arrange for the factory to pay RMB payment, and the factory will provide additional invoices. Foreign trade agents can help declare export tax rebates, ensuring that individuals/companies can not only get normal payment income, but also get tax rebates encouraged by the state.

A foreign trade agent is not a customs broker, but a domestic/foreign customs broker required by the state. Foreign trade agents can help prepare/simply review the relevant customs declaration documents, cooperate with the relevant entrusted business of the customs broker, and help customers clear customs smoothly. A good foreign trade agent usually has a good reputation in customs/commodity inspection, and can enjoy faster customs clearance and fewer inspections, thus facilitating customers' foreign trade business.

Foreign trade agents are not freight forwarders. Freight forwarders mainly help goods that need to be imported and exported to provide various specific freight services such as booking, pulling goods and shipping, which is also an indispensable and important job in foreign trade business. Customers who are affiliated with a foreign trade agency for import and export can arrange to contact a freight forwarding company in the name of the agency.

A well-qualified foreign trade agency can not only provide traditional foreign trade agency services, but also provide many convenient services related to foreign trade, such as issuing various certificates of origin, embassy certification, Sino-Singapore insurance services, and tax prepayment services. , provide timely information on all kinds of frontier industries and grasp the latest trends of foreign trade. Long-term cooperative customers can also enjoy other welfare policies of the company, and are good partners to cooperate with foreign trade operations.