Qingdao peanuts: busy autumn harvest, grabbing orders, promoting exports

In the golden autumn season, the peanuts in Cuijiaji Town, Pingdu City, Qingdao, welcome the harvest season. With the rumbling sound of peanut harvesters, strings of plump and brightly colored Qingdao peanuts are dug out of the soil.

While harvesting in the fields, high-quality peanuts with large and plump grains are processed into crispy and delicious peanut products in the peanut processing workshop of Qingdao Baoquan Peanut Products Co., Ltd. through multiple processes such as screening, baking, and coating. Under customs supervision, they will soon be shipped to overseas markets by international cargo ships.

Qingdao peanut planting has a history of over a hundred years and is one of the important peanut distribution centers in China. With the characteristics of uniform fruit shape, mellow taste, and moderate oil yield, Qingdao peanuts and their products maintain a stable market in East Asia all year round, and are a characteristic industry that drives farmers' income increase and promotes the development of foreign trade in the county.

We have been deeply involved in peanut processing and export for many years, and our products cover multiple categories such as roasted peanuts, peanut kernels, and peanut butter, "said Li Shan, the production manager of the company." In the first eight months of this year, we exported peanuts and products worth nearly 60 million yuan

Different target markets have differentiated access requirements for peanut pesticide residue limits, specification grading, and packaging labeling. From the fields to foreign supermarkets, enterprises need to establish a full chain quality control system for peanuts, from raw material entry to finished product exit. Through strict quality control, they can adapt to the import standards of different countries.

Every autumn harvest is the busiest time for enterprises to produce and export, and overseas orders are relatively concentrated at this time. However, the admission rules and standards of different countries are different, and the requirements for raw material traceability and standardized declaration of products are also relatively high, which brings many challenges to the smooth export of products, "said Sun Yan, Deputy Director of the Inspection and Quarantine Department of Qingdao Dagang Customs under Qingdao Customs.

In response to this, the customs went deep into the production workshop to understand the production schedule and export plan of the enterprise, and provided targeted business guidance on peanut export inspection and quarantine requirements, commodity specification declaration, and other content, guiding the enterprise to improve raw material traceability, strengthen pesticide residue self-control and self inspection capabilities, and safeguard the bottom line of export agricultural product quality and safety.

At the same time, combined with the strong timeliness of customs clearance for peanut agricultural and food products, Qingdao Dagang Customs has comprehensively implemented facilitation measures such as local inspection and appointment inspection. Through continuously optimizing the customs clearance process, the inspection and certificate issuance time has been continuously compressed, effectively ensuring the fast clearance and timely shipment of peanuts and products.

According to statistics, in the first eight months of this year, Qingdao exported peanuts and related products worth 620 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.8%. (Liang Lifeng, Li Lin/Wen)