Agriculture & Food

On June 4, Yangzhou’s local specialty agricultural product "Gaoyou Songhua Eggs" achieved its first export. A batch of Songhua Eggs produced by Qinyou Egg Products Co., Ltd. passed the quarantine of Yangzhou Customs under Nanjing Customs after passing the customs clearance in Pakistan.

Songhuadan, also known as preserved egg and chameleon, is a unique traditional food in China. It has a unique flavor and rich nutrition. It has a history of more than a thousand years. Songhua eggs are mostly made from duck eggs. Gaoyou's hemp duck is one of the three most famous ducks in the country. Songhua eggs made from Gaoyou hemp duck eggs are not only large in size, rich in egg yolks, but also good in taste and quality.

As a time-honored egg processing enterprise in Jiangsu, Qinyou Egg Products has always maintained its leading position in the domestic industry. Since last year, due to the impact of the epidemic, Qinyou’s domestic sales of egg products have fallen sharply, and it was once under financial pressure. The company hopes to open up a world in the international market, but suffers from lack of export qualifications and lack of export experience.

In fact, like Gaoyou Songhuadan, many specialty agricultural products are looking for more opportunities in the two markets. To support special agricultural products going abroad, it is necessary to start from the needs of enterprises and help enterprises to clear their problems.

With the help of the offline guidance of the local customs department and the online processing, the company successfully obtained the qualification for registration of export food production enterprises. At the same time, Yangzhou Customs has guided enterprises to formulate operation manuals, improve the product quality control system, and improve product quality around 11 processes including egg storage, egg selection, cleaning, ingredients, and pickling. At the same time, it innovates the supervision model, inspection department and inspection department. Joint off-site inspections, daily supervision and regular inspections will be carried out in a coordinated manner.

Zhang Yuming, the manager of Qinyou egg products, is full of longing for the subsequent expansion of the export scale. He said that the goal is to "make Gaoyou Songhua Eggs a signature dish on the'international table'".

Tianjin Shengshi Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. has officially obtained the administrative license for "Registration of Outbound Seedling and Flower Enterprises" recently, becoming the first enterprise in Tianjin with the qualification to export fresh cut flowers.

The person in charge of the company Jing Yehong told reporters that although the company has completed the registration of customs import and export consignees and consignees in 2019, it has always been mainly based on the domestic market and has not carried out export business. At the beginning of this year, the company adjusted its development strategy, expanded flower planting area, enriched flower cultivation varieties, and actively explored overseas markets. It has been successfully recognized by many foreign customers and reached cooperation intentions. "Considering the particularity of fresh-cut flower products, all products need to be ordered in advance. Once the delivery deadline is confirmed, it needs to be packaged and shipped quickly. Our company has no experience in exporting, and we deliberately go to the customs to consult the relevant procedures first."

After receiving the company's outbound seedling and flower production company registration consultation, Jizhou Customs immediately organized the backbone of the animal and plant business to set up a "agricultural product one-on-one" assistance group, which was included in the list of key assistance enterprises, and went to the company to give an on-site presentation "Registration of Outbound Seedling and Flower Enterprise Registration" administrative examination and approval application conditions and matters needing attention, provide on-site guidance on the relevant requirements of planting bases, processing and packaging plants and storage facilities, and always maintain telephone communication to help enterprises answer relevant questions in a timely manner. With the help of customs officers, the company quickly passed the review smoothly.

"We have reached cooperation intentions with companies in the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands and other countries. The flowers in Jizhou will be sold all over the world!" Jing Yehong said happily.

As a major province that has ranked first in the country's food and agricultural exports for 22 consecutive years, Shandong's exports of meat, aquatic products, vegetables, peanuts, condiments, cans and other major products have ranked first in the country.

Recently, Qingdao Customs issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Building of Brands for Exported Food and Agricultural Products and Cultivating New International Competitive Advantages." It proposed 9 specific measures from three aspects: consolidating the foundation for brand development, tapping brand market potential, and stimulating brand creation. , Give full play to the functional advantages of the customs department in technical trade measures, intellectual property protection and other aspects, promote the brand building of Shandong export food and agricultural products, and enhance the competitiveness of the international market.

Song Haihong, Director of the Import and Export Food Safety Division of Qingdao Customs, introduced that the measures introduced by the customs include the summary and promotion of previous work experience and practices, as well as the exploration and innovation of new customs functions and business integration.

For example, the combination of external registration recommendation review and AEO certification of export food record production enterprises, mutual acceptance of the audit results, promotes more production enterprises to obtain foreign registration. Through this measure, Qingdao Customs will give priority to recommending the company for external registration after it has passed the document review of the customs AEO certified company, and the review and recommendation process has been greatly shortened by about 90%.

In addition, Qingdao Customs has also introduced specific measures to strengthen the market access system under the RCEP agreement based on the current situation development and the characteristics of the export food and agricultural products trade in the customs area, promote the construction of a research and evaluation base for technical trade measures in South Korea, and continue to strengthen supervision and optimize services. Further improve the sense of brand-name enterprises, cultivate new advantages in the international competition of Shandong's export food and agricultural products, and accelerate the construction of a new development pattern.

In recent years, through the "three products" special action of "increasing variety, improving quality, and creating brand", the international reputation of Shandong food and agricultural products has been effectively improved, and the international market share has been expanded. Yantai apples, Cangshan garlic, Yantai wine, and Junan in the Qingdao customs jurisdiction Five products including peanuts and Wendeng apples were selected as the first protected list of the European Geographical Indications Agreement, and the export volume of food and agricultural products continued to maintain a steady growth trend.

Wang Hongbing, Deputy Commissioner of Qingdao Customs, said, “In the beginning of the 14th Five-Year Plan, Qingdao Customs will take further deepening of brand building as a starting point, and strive to increase the proportion of Shandong food and agricultural products' independent brand exports, increase the added value of products, and expand the scale of exports. Promote the high-quality development of Shandong food and agricultural products export trade".