Even in the period of sporadic outbreaks of the novel coronavirus pneumonia, China's annual total import and export commodities are still slowly rebounding。Driven by foreign trade,Import and export forwarderBecome a new service industry。A large number of enterprises engaged in import and export freight forwarding comply with the development trend to join the industry competition, the industry scale is unprecedented。The Decision of The State Council on the third batch of cancellation and adjustment of administrative examination and approval items stipulates that the right to review and approve the operation qualifications of import and export freight forwarding enterprises is decentralized, and the minimum registered capital is implemented to make it easier for more small and medium-sized enterprises to enter the industry。
At present, China has more than 30,000 import and export freight forwarding enterprises registered in the competent authorities, more than 2 million employees, an annual increase of 5% to 10%。According to industry estimates, in addition to these officially approved freight forwarders, there are more than 100,000 second - and third-generation freight forwarders, with roughly tens of millions of employees。Although these second and third generations are not eligible for approval by the relevant authorities, they may have good relationships with carriers, bankers or customs and be able to obtain good freight rates to ensure smooth shipments。Compared with large companies with strict and rigid management, their accounting time and customer returns are more flexible, which will bring more fierce competition to the international freight forwarding industry, especially small and medium-sized freight forwarding enterprises。