Efficient Customs Protection for Lingnan Mooncake Exports (Image)

The picture shows: Customs officers conducting research on mooncake export enterprises. Photo by Guan Yue

The Mid Autumn Festival is approaching, and many companies in Guangzhou, Foshan, Qingyuan and other places are rushing to produce orders to meet holiday needs.

We are working at full speed to produce Mid Autumn Festival mooncake orders from Hong Kong and Macau. Customs' scheduled inspections and rapid certification effectively ensure the supply of goods in overseas markets, "said Cheng Yunfeng, the person in charge of New Food Agency (Foshan) Food Co., Ltd.

In response to the centralized shipment demand of enterprises, Foshan Customs has proactively understood the production plan and export order situation of enterprises, conducted on-site lectures on food access regulations in different countries and regions, guided enterprises to standardize the entire process of raw material control, production processing, and finished product testing, and implemented full process risk monitoring for key processes. At the same time, a "green channel" for mooncake exports will be established, implementing convenient measures such as appointment declaration, priority inspection, and rapid certification to ensure that exported mooncakes are delivered to all parts of the world with the best freshness.

A batch of 582 kilograms of egg yolk lotus seed paste mooncakes from Guangdong Chuandao Food Co., Ltd. have just been exported by air freight. In order to support enterprises in competing for "fresh" exports, Qingyuan Customs has proactively understood the production processes and shipping plans of enterprises, provided guidance on the quality and safety management system of export food production enterprises, provided policy interpretations around product classification, ingredient access, label declaration, and other aspects, and urged enterprises to do a good job in source management of raw materials, food additives, etc.

Mooncakes, as a festive food, have a short sales period and must be exported before the holiday. We still have several batches of orders to send to Singapore and Malaysia, and the export schedule is very tight, "said Zhou Famao, Chairman of Guangdong Chuandao Food Co., Ltd." Qingyuan Customs has actually solved the problems we encountered during the first export of mooncakes, ensuring that we deliver the orders on time.

"This year, we developed and launched new flavors of moon cakes, such as coconut yolk and Red bean soup yolk, to better meet the diversified needs of overseas markets." Tan Zhenyu, manager of Guangzhou Peninsula Food Co., Ltd., said, "We have been rushing to make export orders since May, and have exported more than 1 million yuan of moon cake products this year."

In order to ensure stable orders and expand the market for mooncake export enterprises in the customs area, Huadu Customs, a subsidiary of Guangzhou Customs, provides a "24-hour" appointment inspection mechanism to continuously follow up on the entire customs clearance process of mooncake export acceptance declaration, inspection, and supervision, achieving "instant reporting, instant review, and instant inspection" for exported mooncakes. At the same time, strict supervision and sampling will be implemented, with a focus on strengthening quality control over the use of raw materials and food additives, to ensure that mooncakes meet the standards and requirements of the exporting countries and regions.

According to Guangzhou Customs statistics, in the first eight months of this year, Guangzhou Customs supervised the export of mooncakes worth 49.765 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 42.7%. (Guan Yue/Text)