Agriculture & Food

Recently, a batch of canned tomato sauce produced by Tianjin Jindi Food Co., Ltd. boarded a ship and set sail at the Tianjin port. According to Ma Zhenyong, the general manager of the company, the company has exported 4000 tons of canned tomato sauce this year, a year-on-year increase of 200%.

As one of the main agricultural products exported by Tianjin, canned tomato sauce produced in Tianjin is highly popular in the international trade market due to its good taste, high solid and red pigment content. Last year, the total export value reached 1.45 billion yuan, an increase of 28.3%, accounting for 93.7% of canned vegetable exports. Customers are spread to more than 100 countries and regions in Africa, Asia, Europe, and more. Especially the export of small packaged canned tomato sauce increased by 47.5%, accounting for 52.8% of the total export volume in China.

Agriculture, the foundation of the world, is of great importance. Industrial prosperity is the supporting force for achieving rural revitalization. To help agricultural products gain more say in the international trade market, it is necessary to consolidate the industrial foundation and focus on exports.

To this end, Tianjin Customs has established a service mechanism of "proactive door-to-door, one enterprise, one policy, tracking assistance, and problem clearing", which is to coordinate with enterprises in advance, supervise them to do a good job in raw material acceptance, production processing, and self inspection and self-control, and improve the quality management system. At the same time, give play to their professional advantages, push technology technology trade measure information to enterprises, provide targeted consulting services, and guide enterprises to avoid risks. In particular, through the inspection green channel, the "5+2" appointment inspection and the certificate of origin "reporting, reviewing and receiving immediately" working mechanism, the clearance time of agricultural products enterprises has been shortened, and the rural revitalization has been injected with a real driving force. In 2022, Tianjin's international trade exports of agricultural products reached a total of 7.5 billion yuan, a new high in ten years since 2012, with a year-on-year increase of 11.6%.

For this year's exports, Ma Zhenyong is very confident: "It is expected that our export volume will grow by more than 10% this year

In addition to customs clearance time, food safety compliance is the most crucial part of international trade exports of agricultural products. Collecting and analyzing information on changes in food laws, regulations, and standards in major trading countries, and timely pushing it to enterprises, guiding them to effectively respond, is one of the functions of customs to leverage its own advantages to serve export enterprises.

On February 16th, Xie Jinyong, the head of the Food Safety Department of Manzhouli Customs, called Xu Jing, the manager of Mengjiao Du Agricultural Technology Development Co., Ltd. in Kailu County, Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia, to report the relevant situation of the trade country, And explain to the company the latest requirements of foreign regulations and standards: "The official government of this country has recently issued a directive for the inspection of chili peppers in all countries, focusing on the inspection of pesticide residues such as rice blast. This is the main export country of your company's products, and it is necessary to strengthen quality and safety self-control and pay attention to relevant inspection projects

In recent years, the main exporting countries of chili products under the jurisdiction of Manzhouli Customs have established strict control standards for pesticide residues in chili peppers and their products. The testing projects involve humic acid, carbofuran, chlorpyrifos, malathion, etc. Once the exported products are found to be unqualified by foreign authorities, they will not be able to enter the market of that country.

For key exported agricultural and food products, door-to-door policies are provided to guide enterprises in mastering the inspection and quarantine requirements of the products and international trade market access conditions, improving the quality level of exported food, and supporting local specialty vegetable products to better 'go global'. Xie Jinyong told reporters that the 'green channel' for export agricultural and food product inspection has designated full-time liaison officers for relevant enterprises, without measures such as holiday reservations, priority inspection, and priority certificate processing, Ensuring rapid customs clearance of exported goods. In 2022, Manchuria Customs supervised the export of 183000 tons of chili products, with a value of 83.7 million yuan, an increase of 16.6% and 83.1% year-on-year, respectively.