At present, Chenghai District has more than 30,000 business units engaged in the production of toys and gifts, employing 130,000 people. In order to help the high-quality development of local characteristic industries, Chenghai Customs, a subsidiary of Shantou Customs, has continued to introduce corresponding measures to help toy companies maintain orders and stabilize exports. Data show that from January to May this year, Shantou exported toys of 4.96 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 31.5%.
Technical guidance to improve product quality
Walking into Guangdong Huaxing Technology Co., Ltd., one by one plastic toys are being packed on the production line. This is a company that produces traditional plastic toys, most of which are exported to Europe and the United States.
"Since this year, the demand for traditional children's toys in overseas markets has picked up, and we have also adjusted our production and export plans accordingly. In the first two years, customer orders were mostly concentrated in smart toy products, and this year's orders returned to traditional children's sound and light, plastic toys. , the corresponding quality and safety standards for product exports are also different, and quality control has also become our top priority." said Wei Yong, the company's production manager.
After learning about the difficulties of the company, Chenghai Customs took the initiative to escort the toy products.
"We hold technical training courses at the production site to provide improvement suggestions for enterprise product design, and help enterprises to control product quality." said Lin Yonglin, chief of the comprehensive business section of Chenghai Customs, which cooperated with local government departments and Shantou Customs. Yuedong Toys Testing Center is the main body of technology and jointly builds a technical service platform to provide enterprises with supporting services such as inspection and testing, product certification, technical training, technical consultation and quality evaluation, to help enterprises improve quality awareness, strengthen quality management methods, and avoid trade risks. . At the same time, through on-site publicity, door-to-door training and other means to carry out technical guidance to help enterprises take the initiative to respond to technical trade measures.
"The technical guidance activities of the Customs Organization have given us a deeper understanding of the toy safety standards of various countries, improved our enterprise's ability to respond, and enhanced our confidence in expanding exports." Wei Yong said.
New business formats expand product exports
On June 10, a group of children's electric toys and dolls produced by Chenghai enterprises declared to Chenghai Customs for export by way of market procurement trade, and were quickly reviewed and released by the Customs, and were successfully sent to overseas markets.
Guangdong Shantou Bao'ao International Toy City, as an international toy industry complex integrating a toy procurement platform, a logistics platform, an international exhibition platform and an e-commerce platform. Toy foreign trade demand provides a new export channel.
Chenghai Customs actively promotes the market procurement business to benefit small, medium and micro toy export enterprises, and cooperates with local commerce, taxation, foreign exchange, market supervision and other departments to hold special policy publicity activities in an "online + offline" method; set up a special service window for market procurement business , actively promote customs clearance facilitation measures such as "integration of national customs clearance", "advance declaration", "simplified declaration", "automatic inspection and quarantine inspection documents", actively carry out cross-customs district coordination, and solve the difficulties and blocking points encountered in the process of customs clearance of enterprises, Effectively promote small and micro enterprises to expand sales, grab orders, and ensure production.
Since the beginning of this year, the export value of Shantou market procurement trade has exceeded 1.2 billion yuan, of which the export value of toys is about 920 million yuan.
"Chenghai Customs will accelerate the implementation of various measures to promote stability, maintain quality and improve quality, and continue to make efforts in quality inspection, technology and trade response, new business development, etc., to continuously enhance the international market competitiveness of Chenghai toys, and help traditional characteristic industries. Quality development." said Lin Weihong, deputy director of Chenghai Customs.