At the press conference today (July 28), the spokesperson of the CCPIT said that in the first half of the year, the cumulative number of certificates issued by the national trade promotion system increased by 12.68% year-on-year.

　　In the first half of the year, the national trade promotion system issued a total of 2,874,800 certificates of origin, ATA certificates, and commercial certificates, a year-on-year increase of 12.68%.

　　Among them, the total amount of non-preferential certificate of origin visas issued by the national trade promotion system was US$188.651 billion, a year-on-year increase of 9.28%; the number of visas totaled 1.8442 million, a year-on-year increase of 10.98%. The national trade promotion system preferential certificate of origin visa amount totaled 31.94 billion US dollars, an increase of 11.80% year-on-year; the number of visas totaled 739,700, an increase of 18.50% year-on-year.

　　The national trade promotion system RCEP certificate of origin visa amount totaled US$3.324 billion, a year-on-year increase of 22.47%; the number of visas totaled 96,000, a year-on-year increase of 69.49%.

　　Sun Xiao, spokesperson of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade: The steady increase in the number of RCEP certificates and visas shows that foreign trade companies continue to increase their enthusiasm for using RCEP. Foreign trade companies using RCEP to export to relevant partner countries may become a new growth point for my country's foreign trade.