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    The main responsibilities of Dongguan Foreign Trade & Economic Cooperation Bureau are:

  1. To implement and carry out laws, regulations and policies promulgated by the Chinese government and the provincial government, governing foreign trade, economic cooperation and foreign investment, and draft foreign trade regulations, specific methods to implement and organize the departments concerned to implement the same in Dongguan city.

  2. To draft and carry out the development strategy, middle and long-term plans and annual guiding plan of foreign trade in Dongguan city.

  3. To examine and approve (examine and submit to superiors) foreign investment projects, and agreements of "three types of processing plus compensation trades". To examining and approve (examine and submit to superiors) enterprises processing trade of foreign trading companies, foreign-invested enterprises and enterprises of "three types of processing plus compensation trades". To examine and approve (examine and submit to superiors) the applications by foreign-invested enterprises regarding imports of vehicles, mechanical and electrical products and other equipments restricted to be imported by the Chinese government. To examine and submit to superiors the applications by foreign-invested enterprises and enterprises engaging in "three types of processing plus compensation trades" regarding permits of their cargo trucks and cars to move from Hong Kong/Macao to the main land directly. To examine and submit to superiors the applications for import and export quota licenses by the enterprises in Dongguan city

  4. To take part in drawing regulations and management modes for the city foreign investment, to implement the macro administration to foreign trade; to guide and harmonize the business work of making use of foreign investment; to inspect and supervise foreign invested enterprises and "three types of processing plus compensation trades" enterprises to implement relevant laws and regulations and the contract; to analyze the foreign investment and processing trade development in our city, submit relevant situation to the municipal government; to be in charge of the statistics of foreign trade and economic cooperation.

  5. To investigate and harmonize foreign invested enterprises' stock ownership dispute, labour-capital dispute and economic dispute; to organize and harmonize the investigation of antidumping and response to the suits.

  6. To be in charge of foreign economic cooperation work, examine and approve open enterprises abroad (except financial enterprises) and to take part in the harmonization and guide; to examine and submit the resident representative offices of the enterprises from foreign countries, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan areas; to guide and supervise foreign contract work, labor cooperation; to examine and submit international shipping agency business.

  7. To attend the inspection and supervision work to the safety in production of foreign invested enterprises, "three types of processing plus compensation trades" enterprises.

  8. To guide and supervise kinds of foreign trade and economic fairs, exhibitions, consulting meeting and activities of inviting businessmen to open companies.

  9. To manage subordinate public institutions.

  10. To undertake other affairs allocated by the municipal government and Guangdong Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation.