Customs AEO certification helps' Jincheng Foundry 'enter the market

At the foot of the Taihang Mountains in March, as the weather turns warm and cold, the production workshop of Shanxi Luoshi Industrial Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Luoshi Industrial") is bustling with activity. The scorching molten iron undergoes processes such as pouring, finishing, and spraying, and one after another, tough cast iron pipes are being produced one by one. This batch of cast iron pipe fittings, known as the "industrial blood vessels," is ready to cross the ocean and be laid in the drainage systems of foreign urban buildings.

The foundry industry is a traditional export industry in Shanxi. As the drafting unit of national standards for cast iron drainage pipes such as GB/T 12772-2016 and GB/T 37357-2019, Weishi Industrial has been deeply involved in the foundry industry for more than 30 years. However, with the increasing pace of enterprises' "going global", the increasingly strict admission standards, fierce homogeneous competition, frequent anti-dumping investigations, and continuously rising sea freight rates in the international market have seriously squeezed the limited profit space. How to improve the internal management level and comprehensive competitiveness of foreign trade, so as to smoothly export "iron lumps" such as cast iron fittings with "large size, heavy weight, and long logistics", has become the most urgent expectation of enterprises.

The call of enterprises is the direction of work. After learning about the difficulties faced by the enterprise during the investigation, Jincheng Customs took the initiative to visit and explain policies and provide services, and suggested that the enterprise apply for AEO (Authorized Economic Operator) certification. AEO certification, known as the "green passport" for international trade, is the highest level of corporate credit management. For pipe casting enterprises, it not only means a reduction in inspection rates and an improvement in customs clearance speed, but also a "golden business card" to showcase their trade security and compliance management capabilities to global customers.

After receiving the formal certification request from Weishi Industrial, Jincheng Customs immediately established a specialized training team, tailored to the characteristics of the industry and products, and formulated an exclusive plan based on "one enterprise, one policy". Select credit cultivation specialists to go deep into the production workshops and office spaces of enterprises, and provide "cancellation style" guidance on weak links such as logistics management and trade security, helping enterprises step onto the "fast lane" of certification step by step. Immersive sand table simulation, certification simulation, and leak detection can help enterprises overcome various difficulties and bottlenecks in internal standardized management and foreign trade compliance operation. In the end, Long Shi Industrial successfully passed the on-site certification.

With the guidance and assistance of the customs, we will face a complex and severe foreign trade environment by 2025, with an export volume of 85 million yuan, far higher than expected at that time, stabilizing the basic structure of foreign trade, "said Cui Xiangming, General Manager of Luoshi Industrial." After passing the certification, with the 'golden signboard' of AEO, customers' trust in our brand will be greatly enhanced, and contract signing can also strive for better trade terms. In the first two months of this year, our export orders have reached over 16 million yuan, an increase of nearly 60% compared to last year, achieving a good start to the first quarter. ”

The relevant person in charge of Jincheng Customs said, "Next, we will leverage the radiation effect of 'certifying one company, demonstrating one area', extend the tentacles of credit cultivation to local characteristic industries, guide more specialized and new enterprises to transform towards high-end, intelligent and green industries, and help more 'Jincheng Manufacturing' go global, contributing customs strength to the high-quality development of Jincheng's open economy