Shanghai FTZ keeps easing offshore-trade fund settlement and document review, letting firms locate global procurement and sales hubs locally and shorten cross-border collection cycles; DCEP pilots in intra-FTZ closed loops further cut intermediary fees and enable programmable auto-execution.

But facilitation is not deregulation: trade-background authenticity and the match of title, funds and documents stay key scrutiny points, and bulk cross-border petrochemicals remain constrained by capital-account convertibility and counterparty access.

SNSUC advises firms to build a unified goods/funds/documents control system and use digital warrants and on-chain fingerprints as verifiable trade-background evidence to support compliant DCEP and offshore settlement.