PBoC issues draft measures to support RMB-denominated cross-border ecommerce

China’s cross-border ecommerce has grown massively in recent years – official data show that from 2016-2019 the compound annual growth rate was 55.1% and in 2020 trade amounted to 1.69 trillion yuan, an increase of 31% on 2019. But that’s still a drop in the ocean compared with traditional cross-border trade so it still needs supportive policies to cut red tape and make the settlement of trade easier…