Hanzhong Customs provides advanced services to help significantly increase tea exports from southern Shaanxi
News from our newspaper (reporter Xiao Qian, intern Liu Liang) On May 17, the reporter learned from Hanzhong Customs that since this year, Hanzhong Customs has provided advanced services and implemented precise policies to promote the volume and price of tea exports in southern Shaanxi, so that Shaanxi tea will continue to flow overseas along the "the Belt and Road". In the first quarter, Hanzhong City exported 206 tons of tea, a year-on-year increase of 77.6%; Ankang City exported 80 tons of tea, filling the gap of no exports during the same period in 2025. The tea from the two cities is mainly exported to Central Asian countries such as Uzbekistan.
With the continuous export of summer and autumn tea in recent years, southern Shaanxi has achieved the transition from "one season of spring tea" to "three seasons of tea". To address the pain points of "difficult policy understanding and unclear processes" for tea enterprises, Hanzhong Customs has innovatively launched the "sending policies to enterprises" service model.
Hanzhong Customs has produced a legal themed promotional video on common issues related to tea exports, systematically interpreting key aspects such as export filing, system construction, and standard docking. The video demonstrates the business processes of export food production enterprises, export food raw material planting bases, and export declaration through customs business scenarios, and embeds regulatory requirements of target markets such as Central Asia and West Africa to help enterprises accurately avoid trade risks. Nowadays, more and more tea companies in southern Shaanxi are going abroad.
Hanzhong and Ankang cities took advantage of the situation and implemented a "leading enterprise+cooperative+base+farmer" joint agriculture and agriculture mechanism, integrating and establishing a tea industry alliance to expand orders and channels. Through resource sharing, 260000 people were employed, relying on export growth to extend the tea production season and create more than 3000 new job opportunities.
The upgrading of the tea industry cannot be achieved without the full chain services provided by customs. Hanzhong Customs has implemented policies such as "remote video inspection" and "batch inspection" to benefit enterprises, opening up a green channel for tea exports and achieving "immediate declaration and release". Meanwhile, relying on the China Europe freight train (Xi'an), tea leaves depart from Hanzhong and Ankang and go directly to Central Asia via Xi'an International Port Station, reducing logistics costs by 30% compared to sea freight.
Under the promotion of Hanzhong Customs, Shaanxi tea exports are transitioning from "raw material export" to "brand export". Next, Hanzhong Customs will continue to optimize customs clearance services, expand international market channels, and help more Shaanxi tea brands go abroad, injecting strong momentum into the revitalization of rural areas in southern Shaanxi, "said the relevant person in charge of Hanzhong Customs.