Customs supports the smooth export of peanuts and related products throughout the entire chain
As the end of the year approaches, there is a steady stream of overseas orders for peanuts and related products in Laixi City, Qingdao. High quality peanuts with large and plump grains undergo multiple processes such as screening, baking, and coating to ultimately become crispy and delicious peanut products. After completing the supervision and customs clearance procedures at Qingdao Dagang Customs under Qingdao Customs, they are shipped on international cargo ships and exported worldwide.
Recently, in the processing workshop of Qingdao Baoquan Peanut Products Co., Ltd., workers are working hard to complete a batch of peanut orders to South Korea. The company's annual production of peanut products reaches 15000 tons. In addition to traditional markets such as South Korea, we have also expanded into markets in Middle Eastern countries such as Kuwait. With the arrival of the new production season, our order volume has increased by nearly 10% year-on-year, "said Li Shan, the company's production manager." Under the guidance of customs, we have taken risk prevention and control measures for aflatoxin in all aspects of raw material procurement, storage, processing, and transportation to ensure product quality, safety, and stability
The problem of aflatoxin contamination has always been a "roadblock" for peanut exports. Under strict technical trade measures, export enterprises have repeatedly encountered returns due to exceeding standards, resulting in varying degrees of losses. Qingdao Customs focuses on the urgent and difficult issues faced by enterprises. Before the arrival of the new production season each year, it organizes and guides production enterprises to carry out field self inspections of exported peanut raw materials, appoints business experts to go to the front line of enterprises, and provides targeted guidance such as sampling testing and standard interpretation.
We have gone deep into the peanut planting base to understand the quality status of the main production areas. For 21 consecutive years, we have compiled and issued self inspection reports on the pollution levels of peanut raw materials such as aflatoxin in the production areas, guiding enterprises to strengthen safety and health control from the source, "said Hu Gang, Deputy Director of the Import and Export Food Safety Department of Qingdao Customs.
According to statistics, since 2021, the notification of aflatoxin in peanuts and products exported by enterprises under the jurisdiction of Qingdao Customs to the European Union has remained at a low level, significantly lower than the historical notification peak. This has led to the EU reducing the sampling rate for imported Chinese peanuts and products from 20% to 10%, greatly improving the clearance speed of enterprises and easing their financial pressure.
On the basis of normalized self inspection of production areas, Qingdao Customs focuses on its regulatory functions and takes the survey of flower production areas as an important lever to accurately connect with the digital transformation achievements of local industries and build an interconnected smart service system. Laixi's' Peanut Products Industry Brain 'is the only provincial-level' industrial brain 'for agricultural and sideline food processing in Qingdao. Its core function is to achieve digital collaboration throughout the entire chain of peanut planting, processing, and sales. The dynamic retrieval database formed by combining with the peanut raw material origin survey report compiled and issued by the customs can achieve online intelligent search for enterprises and help them control procurement and processing plans in real time, "Li Shan added.
Wang Xiaolong, the head of the Inspection and Quarantine Department of Qingdao Dagang Customs, introduced that the customs has specially established a local inspection expert group for fresh and perishable agricultural and food products, implemented scheduled inspections, inspected products that meet the conditions on the same day, issued electronic records on the same day, and released certificates on the same day, further reducing enterprise costs.
According to statistics, in 2025, Qingdao Customs inspected and supervised a total of 480000 tons of exported peanuts and products, a year-on-year increase of 6.7%. (Liang Lifeng, Lu Fujun, Su Maowen/Text)