Agriculture & Food

On December 2, an enterprise in Weifang received an official notice from a prefabricated vegetable importing country that it had received an early warning objection and had allowed all the "temporarily withheld" batches of prefabricated vegetables under your name to pass the customs according to international practice. So far, the 15 day warning event of "over standard preservatives" for the export of prefabricated vegetables ended with the acceptance of China's objection and the official permission of the importing country to "temporarily withhold" prefabricated vegetables worth 3 million according to international practice.

The enterprise has exported prefabricated vegetables for more than 20 years. Its international trade exports pickles, sweet and crisp cucumbers, sweet and sour ginger slices, burdock silk, etc., with an annual export of more than 10000 tons and a foreign exchange earning amount of about 90 million yuan. It exports to more than a dozen countries and regions such as Japan, the United States, Australia, Vietnam, etc. Just when the export of the international trade enterprise went smoothly, in the middle of November, the official of a prefabricated vegetable importing country detected that the preservative in the prefabricated vegetables exported by the enterprise exceeded the standard. The biggest trouble caused by this warning to the company is that not only this batch of prefabricated vegetables has been returned or destroyed, but also 13 containers of prefabricated vegetables that use the same auxiliary materials and then arrive in the country have suffered the same fate. The enterprise may face losses of more than 3 million yuan.

After the incident, Weifang Customs quickly launched the emergency plan of "food safety cloud engine", and launched an accurate counterattack "fast", "real" and "accurate". "Quick" launch. For this event, the emergency plan will be launched at the first time, and a response team will be established with the functional department to find out the basis for the foreign party to raise an early warning. "Real" investigation, organizing the expert group to carry out 9 investigations in the enterprise, tracing the whole process of production and processing, and evaluating the safety of all elements of raw and auxiliary materials; "Quasi" counterclaim refers to the contradiction that "raw and auxiliary materials all conform to the national standards for import and export, and illegal ingredients are detected in finished products". It aims to identify the "bringing in principle" to support international trade enterprises to raise objections to early warning. According to the international practice that "primary auxiliary materials are deemed to be labeled with trace ingredients", 27 copies and 159 pages of counterclaim materials are provided. Five days after the counterclaim materials were submitted, the customs clearance of all batches of prefabricated vegetables valued at 3 million yuan that were "temporarily withheld" by the official authorities of the importing country was successfully completed.

It is understood that Weifang Customs, on the premise of ensuring the safety of epidemic prevention and control, has strengthened the research on foreign technical barriers, focused on risk management, focused on product quality improvement, and "one-to-one" service enterprises to provide "monitoring+customs clearance", "appointment+inspection", technical and trade measures guidance and other supporting services for resident international trade export agricultural products, and guided enterprises to establish a self inspection and self-control system to improve the quality and safety of export food and agricultural products, Timely guide enterprises to deal with foreign technical barriers and escort Weifang Food to go abroad. Since this year, Weifang's international trade has exported 9.73 billion yuan of prefabricated vegetables, a year-on-year growth of 17.6%, and the product qualification rate has reached above 99.98%.