The First 10 Months Of Guangzhou Customs District Foreign Trade Imports And Exports Reached 1.6 Trillion Yuan

　　Guangzhou, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Foreign trade is one of the "troika" driving economic growth. Foreign trade is one of the "troika" that drives economic growth and plays an important role in stabilizing the economy and promoting development. The reporter learned from Guangzhou Customs on the 20th, according to statistics, from January to October this year, the Guangzhou Customs area of seven cities foreign trade import and export value of 1.6 trillion yuan, an increase of 0.4%, accounting for 22.8% of the total value of foreign trade in Guangdong Province.

Smooth logistics channel to support the development of new trade mode

　　On November 3, under the supervision of Foshan Customs Office in Chancheng under Guangzhou Customs, a batch of about 8,300 pieces of clothing, shoes and boots, bags, jewelry, lighting and other cross-border e-commerce goods were smoothly cleared for export transfer to Guangxi Pingxiang port and finally shipped to Vietnam.

　　"Now our biggest advantage in the Southeast Asian market is the logistics timeliness, for example, customers in Vietnam on the day of the order, the fastest next day to receive the goods, land transport timeliness comparable to air transport, port clearance smooth and efficient, customer satisfaction, we are also confident in the development of cross-border e-commerce industry." Logistics company manager introduced, from January to October this year, the company sent to Southeast Asia's cross-border e-commerce goods have exceeded 1.2 billion yuan, of which about 309 million yuan in a single month in September, a ringgit growth of nearly seven times, a new high in the year.

In order to promote the development of new business mode of cross-border e-commerce, Guangzhou Customs actively supports the development of new mode of "cross-border e-commerce + overseas warehouse" while promoting the establishment of new logistics channels, and has successfully guided 30 enterprises to carry out the record of overseas warehouse enterprises. From January to October this year, Guangzhou Customs supervised a total of 460 million pieces of cross-border e-commerce retail import and export goods, an increase of 78.6% year-on-year.

Innovative regulatory mechanism to promote cross-border trade facilitation

　　On November 9, along with the sounding of the whistle, an international liner loaded with 70,500 tons of imported corn worth 208 million yuan berthed at Nansha Grain General Terminal, which will be used as animal feed for domestic farms after processing.

　　Nansha Grain Terminal is currently the first major grain import port in Guangdong Province. Support to build Guangzhou Nansha grain distribution center is an important initiative of Guangzhou Customs to promote the import and export of key commodities.

　　In order to solve the problem of the wide distribution of inbound grain processing enterprises, cross-customs transfer needs, the Customs launched the first "optimization of shipments of inbound bulk grain quarantine approval process" innovation, the quarantine approval of applications to meet the requirements to do with the report, with the examination and approval, is expected to save 5-15 days of logistics time for enterprises.

　　In October 2022, the overall import clearance time of Guangzhou Customs was 20.77 hours, compressed by 75.07% compared to 2017; the overall export clearance time was 0.54 hours, compressed by 95.21% compared to 2017.

Support the construction of major projects to promote the development of industrial clustering

　　On November 7, a batch of 1,111 tons of fresh longan from Thailand was released smoothly after being inspected and quarantined by Nansha Customs under Guangzhou Customs after berthing at Guangzhou Nansha New Port by international liners such as "Hafeng Bella" and "Zhonglian Purui".

　　According to Guangzhou Customs statistics, in the first 10 months of this year, Guangzhou's import trade from Thailand and other countries along the "Belt and Road" amounted to 92 billion yuan, an increase of 17.4%. Among them, 11.94 billion yuan of imports from Thailand, an increase of 26.1% year-on-year, Thailand coconut, durian, mangosteen, longan and other agricultural imports of about 5.2 billion yuan, an increase of 1.1 times, a record high.

　　October 25, the country's largest single cold storage - Guangzhou Nansha International Logistics Center cold chain project was officially opened, fully completed after the monthly import and export of cold chain goods 10,000 TEU.

　　It is understood that the imported cold chain goods after customs clearance procedures, through the highway outward radiation, 1 hour to reach Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Bay Area cities, 24 hours to reach all over the country. From January to October this year, Nansha port cold chain goods imports 18.572 billion yuan, an increase of 77.94%, the import value rose to the third place in the national port.

　　Guangzhou Customs deputy director said that the next step of the customs will continue to innovate the regulatory model, enhance the level of cross-border trade facilitation, cultivate new dynamics of foreign trade development, the implementation of tax and fee reduction measures and other aspects of sustained efforts to reduce the burden of enterprises, reduce costs, increase efficiency, do everything possible to ensure that the main market, to ensure the smooth flow of cross-border logistics, to ensure the stability of the industrial chain supply chain, to promote foreign trade to maintain stability and improve quality.

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