Iberian black pork ribs imported from Spain, Thai black tiger prawns, ......On the morning of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Ms. Chen placed an order for a variety of ingredients on the Sam's app through her mobile phone. "I have family and friends coming to our house for dinner tonight, in addition to traditional Cantonese food, I also plan to prepare some Western delicacies, I hope you have a good meal! She said.
*Below, a boutique supermarket is newly decorated, with a dazzling array of imported fruits such as Thai Musang King durian, Chilean cherries, and Korean red pomelo; In the freezer, Australian Wagyu beef is delicious, and the packaging is decorated with New Year's greetings such as "Wishing you prosperity". Mr. Zhou, a citizen of Guangzhou, selects products with his wife and daughter.
During this year's Spring Festival, there are a lot of ingredients from overseas on Lao Guang's table. Since January, Guangzhou Baiyun Airport Customs has supervised more than 2,000 batches of imported fresh goods such as grass shrimp, prawns, abalone, yellow eel, lobster, and blue crab, weighing more than 3,000 tons, an increase of 13% and 17% year-on-year respectively. At the same time, since the beginning of this year, the import of fruits under the quarantine supervision of Shenzhen Customs has also increased significantly, with the weight and value of goods reaching 15 respectively380,000 tons and 424.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase10%。
Online and offline procurement is busy.
Imported fruits and aquatic products are popular.
Soon after the order was placed, the delivery staff delivered Ms. Chen's goods to her door. "These foods are relatively easy and quick to make, and many of the popular items sell out quickly, so I have to rush to buy them early in the morning. She said.
The reporter learned that many supermarket platforms do not close during the Spring Festival, although the shipping cost of delivery orders has been raised, but the delivery time is *** consumers can buy fresh imported ingredients without leaving home. At the same time, the reporter visited large supermarkets and found that merchants launched a variety of festive "family carnival"** to attract customers to buy.
Li Yan, deputy director of customs affairs of Xinrongmao Fruit Technology Group, said: "On the eve of the Spring Festival, a large number of imported fresh fruits arrived in Hong Kong, and we rely on the advantages of sea transportation, as well as the convenient customs clearance environment and fast customs clearance speed of the ports in the Greater Bay Area, to provide fresh fruits to the general public at a more affordable rate during the festival." ”
The local market in Guangzhou has a large demand for aquatic products, and the market demand will further increase during the Spring Festival. In the past month, our company has imported more than 1,500 tons of fresh goods, which is twice the usual import volume. Zhang Ming, general manager of Guangzhou Tongxing International Chain, said.
New Year's goods" customs clearance does not stop.
Protecting consumers' food baskets.
The safe and fast arrival of imported fresh food at home is inseparable from the efficient inspection and supervision of the customs. On the eve of the Chinese New Year, Shenzhen's DaChan Bay Terminal was busy, with barges from Hong Kong and Macao laden with imported Chilean cherries berthing in an orderly manner, and huge shore cranes lifting heavy containers and placing them precisely on waiting transport trucks.
This batch of imported Chilean cherries totaled more than 300 containers and weighed more than 1,400 tons. Zhang Chong, section chief of the inspection department of DaChan Bay Customs, said that in order to ensure the rapid customs clearance of fresh fruits during the festival, Shenzhen Customs has formulated a special work plan in advance to continuously improve the customs clearance timeliness of fresh fruits and help more high-quality imported fruits enter the domestic consumer market.
Timeliness for cross-border transportation is the most critical. Zhang Ming, who operates the import business of fresh goods, said, "After the imported fresh goods are fished abroad, they need to be sealed and packaged with oxygenation immediately, and special measures such as refrigeration and pressure prevention should be taken throughout the whole process to ensure freshness." The earlier the arrival time, the better the quality assurance of fresh goods such as shrimp and crabs, and the better the shopping experience of consumers. ”
In order to protect the "umami" on consumers' tables, during the Spring Festival, Liu Zhixing, deputy chief of the special goods supervision section of Guangzhou Baiyun Airport Customs, and his colleagues stuck to the front line of the port.
Make every effort to ensure the 24-hour fast customs clearance of fresh goods, arrive on the same day, inspect on the same day, and release on the same day. Liu Zhixing said that in view of the high requirements for customs clearance of imported fresh goods, they also docked with relevant enterprises in advance to guide enterprises to make good use of convenient customs clearance policies such as "early declaration" and "two-step declaration" to improve customs clearance efficiency and further compress customs clearance time.
Southern ** reporter Tang Ziyan Zeng Meiling.