Agriculture & Food

Vegetable planting is one of the characteristic industries on the plateau in Yunnan Province. Import and export data shows that in the first quarter of this year, the export of "cloud vegetables" continued to maintain a high-speed growth, with an export volume of 163000 tons, a year-on-year increase of 26.8%.

In order to support the expansion of exports of plateau characteristic agricultural products and fully serve the high-level opening and high-quality development of Yunnan, Kunming Customs has actively implemented various measures to promote foreign trade stability and quality improvement, especially in ensuring product quality and safety, and has done a lot of work.

"The varieties on the market in our base are broccoli and cabbage, which are mainly exported to ASEAN countries," said Shi Jiaxiang, head of Yunnan Tongtai Trade Import and Export Co., Ltd, Previously, we were not familiar with foreign requirements, and products could be returned due to non-compliance with destination country requirements, resulting in economic losses. Thanks to customs policy interpretation and guidance, we established guidelines for screening and packaging fresh fruits and vegetables, and passed quality management system certification, ensuring the quality of exported vegetables

According to Huacheng Import and Export Data Observation, in order to assist export enterprises in ensuring quality from the source, Kunming Customs has guided the planting base to fertilize and apply fertilizers in response to differentiated requirements such as epidemic diseases, agricultural residues, and heavy metals. It has also established a Yunnan Plateau Special Agricultural and Food Products Technical Trade Measures Research and Evaluation Base, helping enterprises effectively respond to foreign corresponding regulations and paving the way for the export of "Yuncai". At the same time, Kunming Customs has implemented a series of customs clearance facilitation policies, such as optimizing the supervision of agricultural products such as vegetables, helping enterprises to enjoy the preferential treatment of certificate of origin, and promoting the export of "cloud vegetables" to improve both quantity and quality.

Freshness is a key factor affecting vegetable prices, and serving enterprises to quickly clear customs is one of our important tasks, "said Liang Wei, the head of the Food Safety Department of the Import and Export Food Safety Department of Kunming Customs. Kunming Customs has comprehensively optimized the supervision mode of exported vegetables, classified and managed export vegetable enterprises at different levels, and established a "green channel" for declaration and inspection. Enterprises with good credit have achieved one click local declaration and one port inspection and release, and fresh vegetables have been quickly cleared through "inspection and release". Huacheng Import and Export Data Observation Report.

Generally, within about 48 hours, our vegetables can be harvested and marketed abroad, allowing foreign consumers to taste fresh plateau vegetables as soon as possible, "said Shi Jiaxiang, a Huacheng import and export data observation report.

In order to help export vegetable enterprises fully enjoy the preferential policies of origin under the Free Trade Agreement such as RCEP, Kunming Customs made a thorough investigation of the situation of export vegetable enterprises, carried out targeted policy publicity, promoted the application of "intelligent audit+self-service printing" and other signature review modes, actively guided export vegetable enterprises to take the express train of the China Laos Railway, and further improved the international competitiveness of "cloud vegetables".

Under the protection of a series of policy dividends, our vegetables can be continuously listed in the ASEAN market throughout the year, meeting the diverse procurement needs of foreign customers, and gradually increasing market share.