At the beginning of 2024, the national backbone cold chain logistics base in the Eco-City ushered in a "good start". 1 day ago, the first bonded warehouse for frozen products in Tianjin, which was approved for construction in the base - Zhongnong Batch (Tianjin) International Frozen Products Trading Market*** hereinafter referred to as "Zhongnong Batch") bonded warehouse, ushered in the first import of goods. After on-site verification by Beitang Customs, 45 tons of beef from Brazil were successfully put into storage, marking the official use of the bonded warehouse.
The total area of the bonded warehouse is 2,664 square meters, including 2 cold storages, which are divided into low temperature area and deep cold area. Among them, the low temperature zone is minus 18-24, which is used to store frozen meat and aquatic products; The cryogenic zone can reach minus 65 and is used to store high value-added seafood such as salmon. This is also the only cryogenic bonded warehouse in North China.
According to the relevant regulations, during the storage period stipulated by the customs, the import goods in the bonded warehouse can temporarily defer the payment of import taxes and be exempted from import licenses and other regulatory documents. According to Xu Aigang, deputy general manager of China Agricultural Batch, due to the high tariffs on imported meat and seafood, bonded warehouses are conducive to helping enterprises reduce the pressure on capital turnover, reduce the cost of customs clearance of goods, and better meet the needs of transit and storage.
Like our batch of imported goods today, enterprises can suspend the payment of taxes of 600,000 yuan. Xu Aigang said that with the commissioning of the bonded warehouse, the adsorption of imported frozen products will be further enhanced. Subsequently, the company will further expand the source of goods, introduce mutton, milk, aquatic products and other goods from Argentina, the United Kingdom, Australia and other countries, and continue to enrich the imported frozen products in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. The bonded warehouse of Zhongnong batch has also built a processing workshop with an area of 16,000 square meters, which can provide convenience for simple processing, distribution and retail of goods in the later stage.
In addition, the international frozen products trading market project built by China Agricultural Supply and Marketing Group, a holding company in China, is also speeding up the construction progress and is expected to be completed and put into use in the first half of this year. At that time, China Agricultural Batch will form a full-chain comprehensive transaction service platform integrating source procurement, bonded processing, cold chain warehousing and frozen product trading. For small processing plants in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region that cannot carry out bulk international procurement, they can directly "purchase" in the central fishing port, which shortens the logistics cycle of cold storage products, reduces procurement costs, and can better integrate into the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei one-hour fresh agricultural product logistics circle, which is convenient for citizens to buy high-quality and low-cost imported frozen products.
At present, the Eco-City's central fishing port national backbone cold chain logistics base has gathered 60 cold chain chain enterprises, including China Agricultural Batch, Youhe, Junhe Industry, China Fishery Real Estate, Haishi Shengtong and Jinsan Cold Chain, involving frozen storage, food processing, international logistics and other fields.
The Eco-City will give full play to the geographical advantages of the central fishing port and the superimposed advantages of "China-Singapore cooperation and free trade linkage", and continue to lengthen the cold chain industrial chain through replication and promotion of the experience of the construction and operation of bonded warehouses for frozen products, promote the transformation of the base from a "channel economy" with warehousing functions to a "port economy" with new business formats such as international transit, distribution and processing, and promote the high-quality development of the cold chain logistics base.