From Tea Garden to Overseas -- Answers to "Three Tea" of Mount Wuyi Customs

The mountain preserves a thousand year old charm, and the tea awakens a new spring color. Mount Wuyi Customs, focusing on the overall development of "three teas", has been working hard for five years, focusing on source control, optimization of services, and assistance in technology and trade, turning Wuyishan teas into "golden leaves" that are famous at home and abroad, helping them to cross mountains and seas and float around the world.

Building a solid foundation, controlling the source and strengthening quality

"Wenqu is so clear that there is a source of fresh water." Mount Wuyi Customs knows that the quality of tea is rooted in the source and the base. To this end, Mount Wuyi Customs has set up a special class to serve the development of the tea industry, strictly implemented the enterprise coordinator system, promoted "one enterprise, one policy" precise assistance, and improved the "one-stop" handling guide for "planting base+production enterprise+export enterprise" three filing. Strictly control the quality and safety, implement closed-loop management of the entire chain including source control, process supervision, and export verification, and safeguard the quality and reputation of Wuyi tea. We were completely clueless about the registration of export bases before. It was the customs officials who took the initiative to provide on-site services, guiding us step by step in preparing materials, standardizing tea garden management, patiently answering questions throughout the process, and helping us successfully obtain the registration qualification, "said Lian Long, Deputy General Manager of Taoyuanming Tea Science Research Institute Co., Ltd. At present, more than 300 acres of registered tea gardens of the enterprise have achieved standardized planting, and the quality of tea has steadily improved. In the past five years, the number of registered entities in the tea industry has continued to expand. As of March 2026, a total of 66 tea planting bases with an area of 29263 acres have been registered in the jurisdiction, an increase of 371% and 173% respectively compared to March 2021, laying a solid foundation for the standardized and large-scale development of the tea industry.

Speed up and smooth traffic, empower service and optimize the environment

"All roads lead to wealth", in order to help Wuyi Tea "go global", Mount Wuyi Customs will deepen the construction of smart customs, make full use of big data, single window, credit management and other means to improve the efficiency of regulatory services, and provide considerate services to help the export-oriented development of the tea industry; Focusing on improving the business environment at ports, and tailored to the characteristics of tea exports, green channels such as fast processing of certificates of origin and priority inspection have been opened to ensure convenient customs clearance for tea exports. "Our service is to follow the industry, turn around enterprises, focus on the key link of tea enterprises' urgent needs, effectively speed up the tea export, reduce the burden and increase efficiency, and guard the road of Wuyi tea to the sea." Lei Luying, head of Mount Wuyi Customs Supervision Section, said. In the first quarter of 2026, the export value of tea of enterprises under the jurisdiction of Mount Wuyi Customs will be 10.45 million yuan, covering traditional Wuyishan rock tea, new tea drinks and other categories, and the export scale will steadily increase.

Breaking through barriers and setting sail, combining technology and trade to expand the market

In the face of the increasingly complex international trade environment, Mount Wuyi Customs has closely followed the international market access rules, and has conducted policy interpretation for more than 50 enterprises in its jurisdiction by means of policy preaching, policy delivery and field guidance, with the goal of "accurate interpretation and effective implementation". Support product innovation, guide enterprises to develop new flavored teas, and accurately match international market preferences. Customs guided quality control throughout the process, benchmarked against international standards, and supported us in successfully developing a variety of new tea drinks that meet the needs of the international market, winning widespread recognition from overseas customers, "said Yin Haiyan, Overseas Export Manager of Xiangjiang Yunchaxing Tea Industry Co., Ltd. Relying on standardized production and branded operation, the enterprise will export 35 tons of new tea drinks for the first time in 2025, with a value of 4.85 million yuan.

Mount Wuyi Customs will continue to deepen the overall implementation of "three teas", optimize supervision services, continue to deepen the tea industry, promote quality upgrading, help "Wuyishan Golden Leaf" sail, and contribute to the customs force for serving rural revitalization and improving the quality and efficiency of foreign trade. (Li Yanfang/Text)