What are the conditions needed to open a foreign trade company? Thank you for your advice.

If the registered company is a limited liability company, then before registering the limited liability company, you should meet some basic conditions for starting a company, including:

1. The shareholders meet the quorum ( 2 or more people); 2. The shareholder’s capital contribution reaches the minimum legal capital limit (it varies according to the industry, generally three levels: 100,000, 300,000, 500,000); 3. Articles of Association jointly formulated by the shareholders; 4 . Have a company name and establish an organizational structure that meets the requirements of a limited liability company; 5. Have a fixed production and operation site and necessary production and operation conditions. With this foundation, you can follow the following procedures to register.

First of all, you need to apply to the company registration authority for pre-approval of the name; to apply for pre-approval of the name, you should submit the following documents: (1) Company name signed by all shareholders of a limited liability company or all promoters of a joint-stock company Application form for pre-approval of name; (2) Legal person qualification certificate of shareholder or promoter or identity certificate of natural person; (3) Other documents required by the company registration authority.

After receiving the documents, the company registration authority generally makes a decision of approval or rejection within 10 days. If the company registration authority decides to approve it, it will issue a "Notice of Preliminary Approval of Enterprise Name".

If approved, you must prepare relevant application materials and go to the industrial and commercial registration department where the company is located to register. These materials generally include:

1. Application report; 2. , Proof of the designated representative or authorized agent of all shareholders (letter of attorney) and a copy of the work permit or ID card of the entrusted person; 3. Notice of pre-approval of the company name; 4. Certificate of legal person qualifications of shareholders (enterprise legal person (need to be stamped with the seal of the issuing authority) or a natural person’s identity certificate; 5. Application for registration of corporate legal person establishment signed by the chairman of the company; 6. Resolution of the shareholders’ meeting (stamped and signed by all shareholders); 7. Resolution of the board of directors (signed by all directors) ; 8. Resolution of the Board of Supervisors (signatures of all supervisors); 9. Articles of Association (seals of all shareholders). Group companies also need to submit group articles of association (seals of group member companies); 10. State the names of the company’s directors, supervisors, and managers. , documents of domicile and proof of appointment, election or employment, including: (1) Letter of appointment (solely state-owned); (2) Letter of appointment (seal of the appointing unit); (3) Legal representative, director, supervisor of the company , Manager's employment certificate; (4) A copy of the legal representative's temporary residence permit (referring to the ID card from another province or city); 11. Capital verification certificate issued by a legally qualified capital verification agency or the "State-owned Assets Property Rights Registration Form" issued by the state-owned assets management department ; 12. Proof of the company’s domicile. A lease agreement must be submitted for renting a house. The agreement period must be more than one year (with a copy of the property ownership certificate); 13. A group company must submit a resolution for member companies to join the group; 14. Laws and administrative regulations Projects that must be submitted for review and approval must include approval documents from relevant national departments; 15. Approval documents from departments authorized by the State Council or the people's governments of autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government; 16. Other relevant materials.

Of course, depending on your actual situation, you do not need to provide some materials, such as letters of appointment, letters of delegation, etc., which are required by state-owned enterprises. However, there are still some materials that must be provided separately according to the requirements of the industrial and commercial department. For example, if your company belongs to the catering industry and needs approval from the Health Bureau, then you may have to go to the Health Bureau to go through some procedures. The following are the government management departments you may have to go to and the procedures you need to go through: Cultural Affairs Bureau: Cultural business project license approval.

Health Bureau: Approval of health licenses for food and public places.

Commercial Committee: Approval of tobacco and alcohol monopoly retail licenses, grain and oil qualifications, food transactions and agricultural trade fairs.

Science and Technology Committee: Approval of science and technology operation certificates.

Technical Supervision Bureau: Enterprise, institution, agency and private non-enterprise code registration.

Finance Bureau: Fiscal policy registration, acceptance of small business loan credit guarantee registration.

After submitting these materials, you need to wait for review and approval by the management department, which generally will not exceed 15 days. When you get the "Enterprise Legal Person Business License" from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, your company will be officially established. However, the matter is not over yet. According to the provisions of the law, you have to go through some other related procedures within the prescribed time limit, such as going to the tax department for tax registration.

The company registration procedure includes two specific procedures: one is the company's application for registration, and the other is the company registration authority's approval and registration procedure for the company. If laws and administrative regulations stipulate that the establishment of a company must be submitted for examination and approval, the examination and approval procedures must be completed in accordance with the law before the company is registered; if the company's business scope is restricted by laws and administrative regulations, it must be approved in accordance with the law. Therefore, the company registration process sometimes includes a third process, which is the establishment approval process or approval process.

(1) Company application for registration procedure

Company application for registration procedure refers to the procedure for a company to apply for registration with the registration authority. According to the "Company Registration Management Regulations", a company's application for registration is divided into three types: establishment registration, change registration and cancellation registration, and the registration procedures are correspondingly divided into three types (we will first introduce the "Application for Establishment Registration Procedure" here). The procedures for applying for establishment registration are: to establish a company, you must apply for pre-approval of the name. (1) Registration of limited liability company establishment. To establish a limited liability company, the representative designated by all shareholders or the agent entrusted by the party shall apply to the company registration authority for establishment registration. To establish a wholly state-owned company, a state-authorized investment institution or state-authorized department shall serve as the applicant and apply for establishment registration. If laws and administrative regulations stipulate that the establishment of a limited liability company must be submitted for examination and approval, the applicant shall apply to the company registration authority for establishment registration within 90 days from the date of approval; if the application for establishment registration is overdue, the applicant shall report to the examination and approval authority to confirm the validity of the original approval document or Submit for approval separately. When applying for the establishment of a limited liability company, relevant documents and certificates must be submitted to the company registration authority. (2) Registration of establishment of a joint-stock company. To establish a joint-stock company, the board of directors shall apply to the company registration authority for establishment registration within 30 days after the founding meeting. When applying for the establishment of a joint-stock company, relevant documents and certificates must be submitted to the company registration authority.

(2) Registration approval procedure by the company registration authority

The approval and registration procedure by the company registration authority means that the company registration applicant submits a registration application to the company registration authority, and the company registration authority accepts the application and reviews it The work process from company registration documents to the approval or rejection of the application, issuance, renewal or collection of business licenses.

1. Legal procedures for company registration approval

After receiving all legal documents submitted by the applicant, the company registration authority will issue the "Company Registration Acceptance Notice" to the applicant. The notice It is issued when the company registration authority receives documents submitted by the applicant that comply with the provisions of the "Company Registration Management Regulations". According to the provisions of the "Company Registration Management Regulations", the documents submitted for company registration are also different due to different registration situations, that is, relevant documents must be submitted in accordance with different requirements for company establishment registration, change registration, cancellation registration, and branch registration. The company registration authority shall make a decision to approve or deny registration within thirty days from the date of issuance of the "Notice of Acceptance of Company Registration". Otherwise, the applicant may file a lawsuit in the People's Court in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Administrative Procedure Law. If the company registration is approved, the applicant shall be notified within 15 days from the date of registration approval, and the "Enterprise Legal Person Business License" or "Business License" shall be issued, renewed or collected, and the signature of the legal representative or his authorized person shall be filed. formalities. If the company registration authority refuses to register, it shall notify the applicant within fifteen days from the date of making the decision and issue a "Notice of Rejection of Company Registration". The issuance, renewal or seizure of a business license by the company registration authority, or the issuance of a "Notice of Rejection of Company Registration" marks the end of the statutory registration procedure.

2. Company approval and registration work procedures

The company approval and registration work procedures refer to the specific work procedures formulated by the company registration authorities at all levels based on the regulations of the superior authorities and the actual work. Generally, It should include three steps: Acceptance and review: After the company registration authority accepts the company registration application, the reviewer will review the registration documents submitted by the applicant and provide specific review opinions; Approval: The legal representative or authorized person of the company registration authority personnel, based on the review opinions, decide to approve the company registration or reject the registration application; license issuance: the company registration authority will issue a business license or issue a notice of disapproval based on the approval results, and organize and archive the relevant company registration materials.

To put it simply, to register a company, you need to provide:

1. Personal information (ID card, copy of legal person’s household register or household registration certificate, residential address, contact number)

2. Registered capital,

3. Several company names to be registered

4. Company business scope

5. Registered address production certificate, lease Contract

Processing process:

1. Approval of company name

2. Seal engraving and capital verification

3. Apply for business license

4. Apply for the organization code certificate

5. Apply for the tax registration certificate

6. Open a bank account

7. Buy invoices