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Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, the global "home economy" has boomed, and the demand for furniture products has exploded. The reporter learned from Guangzhou Customs on the 7th that from January to June this year, enterprises in the Guangzhou Customs area exported a total of 109,800 batches of furniture with a value of 17.845 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 197.42%.

Wooden furniture is one of the industrial clusters with the most foreign trade advantage in South China. On the morning of July 6, Foshan Bosi Furniture Co., Ltd. declared to the customs to export a batch of sofas to Puerto Rico. The customs adopted a mobile remote supervision mode to deal with the batch of goods. Implement remote inspections. After passing the inspection and quarantine, the batch of furniture will be shipped out in the afternoon, with "zero waiting" and "zero detention" throughout the process.

From Lecong Town, Shunde District, Foshan City, along Foshan Avenue all the way south to Longjiang Town, the road that is more than 10 kilometers long is lined with various furniture companies. The Shunde area has the most complete furniture industry chain in China: Longjiang is the first major furniture manufacturing town in China and has the largest furniture material market in Asia; Lecong is the capital of China's furniture business; and the diverse Shunde paints are the local furniture industry Development provides a strong backing.

According to statistics, in 2020, enterprises in the Guangzhou Customs area exported 152,000 batches of furniture with a value of 20.426 billion yuan, an increase of 55.6% over the same period last year. In order to help the furniture industry seize development opportunities and achieve both production and export prosperity, the Foshan Customs Office in Shunde sent personnel to investigate the furniture industry, strengthened guidance, formulated targeted assistance measures for enterprises, and implemented a mobile remote supervision model.

Guangdong Shenteng Steel & Wood Products Co., Ltd. is one of the largest enterprises in Guangdong Province that produces artificial mechanical computer desk furniture. Thanks to the company's good reputation, the company became one of the first batch of pilot companies in Guangzhou Customs to carry out "joint inter-departmental inspections in the field of verification".

“Customs and the Market Supervision Administration conducted joint spot checks on our company to achieve'one entry and multiple inspections'.” Qiu Longhai, the company’s foreign trade chief, said, “The original customs and municipal supervision departments went to the company to conduct inspections. At least two Now it only takes half a day to complete the verification work that could only be done in a genius."