China Customs' Strong Nation: Knocking on the Door of Emerging Markets: Domestic Christmas Wooden Jewelry Exported to Southeast Asia to Decorate the 'Christmas Season'

Recently, in the production workshop of Guangzhou Youth Crafts Co., Ltd., the buzzing sound of machinery and the unique fragrance of wood interweave. Workers are focusing on their work on the assembly line, cutting, polishing, painting, decorating... After each process, a batch of handmade embroidery sheds, wooden hanging decorations and other Christmas wooden ornaments have been taken offline one after another. After being supervised and qualified by the customs officers of Zengcheng Customs under Huangpu Customs, these products will be loaded into containers and sent overseas to welcome the upcoming Christmas season.
As Christmas approaches, the overseas Christmas consumption market is experiencing explosive growth. Chinese made Christmas products have won the favor of overseas consumers due to their diverse types, exquisite craftsmanship, and reliable quality. Guangzhou Qingchun Crafts Co., Ltd. is a leader in this field. For nearly 30 years, the company has focused on the design and production of holiday and home decorations. Its products are exported to multiple overseas markets such as North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia, with an annual output value of over 100 million yuan.
In recent years, the company has keenly captured the strong demand for Christmas products in the Southeast Asian market and actively expanded into emerging markets. In the past, our customers were mainly concentrated in traditional markets such as Europe and America, but now orders in Southeast Asia have also grown significantly, "said Li Fubin, the customs manager of the company.
To assist bamboo, wood, and grass enterprises in expanding into emerging overseas markets, Zengcheng Customs actively carries out policy promotion, explains the latest foreign quarantine requirements to enterprises, and helps them effectively respond to technical trade measures. At the same time, the customs guide enterprises to improve their own standardized management level, establish and improve a management system centered on the control and traceability management of harmful organisms and toxic substances, and ensure that exported products meet the quarantine requirements of the destination country from the source.
Recently, our export orders have increased by 20% year-on-year, and Christmas decorations have strong seasonality and tight delivery times, which require high timeliness. Customs has accelerated the clearance procedures for us and implemented convenient measures such as remote video inspection to inspect our export goods, greatly reducing the waiting time for inspection. Now, the goods are completed in less than a day from declaration to release, effectively ensuring that we deliver orders on time, "said Li Fubin.
In addition, Zengcheng Customs deepens the construction of smart customs, comprehensively promotes the application of local inspection business management system and "cloud issuance" mode. Enterprises can complete the entire process of inspection and certification through online platforms in a "one-stop" manner. Customs also provides appointment clearance services, combining intelligent supervision methods with efficient services to help bamboo, wood, and grass enterprises accelerate their exports.
According to statistics, from January to October this year, Zengcheng Customs has cumulatively supervised and released 220 million yuan of bamboo, wood, and grass products for export, a year-on-year increase of 16.5%.