Shanghai Rule of Law News: Shanghai Customs ensures safe customs clearance of imported fireworks for celebrations

The 10th anniversary celebration of Shanghai Disney Resort (hereinafter referred to as "Disney") will kick off today, and the iconic nighttime performance "Dreamlight Phantom Show" will also be upgraded in a stunning way. Shanghai Customs has established a strong defense line for imported fireworks, efficiently ensuring the clearance of Disney imported fireworks, ensuring the smooth presentation of performances, and creating a safe and dreamy immersive experience for tourists.
Since the opening of Disney, we have been acting as an agent for importing fireworks, "said Pan Yong, General Manager of Yichun Anqi Import and Export Co., Ltd. It is understood that Disney's celebration fireworks cover two categories: domestic and imported. Imported fireworks, combined with domestic fireworks, play an important role in enriching the performance level and enhancing visual effects.
In the inspection and supervision process, Shanghai Customs strictly implements the relevant regulations on the inspection and management of dangerous goods. At the inspection site, customs officers accurately focused on key items such as transportation packaging, sales packaging, and appearance labeling. In response to the special flammable and explosive properties of fireworks, they focused on the standardization of imported fireworks inspection, comprehensively inspected the inspection site from the aspects of operation standards, safety protection, emergency response, etc., to prevent and resolve safety risks at the inspection site.
At the same time, Shanghai Customs has tailored a "one enterprise, one policy" plan to accurately grasp the batch, specifications, quantity, and storage plan of imported fireworks, provide convenient services such as appointment inspection and priority inspection, open green channels, optimize customs clearance processes, and ensure timely delivery of imported fireworks. In the first two months of this year, Shanghai Customs inspected and supervised a total of 6.21 tons of imported fireworks and firecrackers, a year-on-year increase of 1.2 times.
The reporter learned that in the 10 years since Disney's opening, Shanghai Customs has inspected and supervised 359 tons of imported fireworks and firecrackers from Disney; Ensure the safe and convenient customs clearance of imported complete sets of equipment for over 30 Disney projects, involving a total value of approximately 485 million US dollars.