It was learned from Xi'an Customs: From January to April 2024, Shaanxi exported 5,342 tons of plant extracts with a value of 698 million yuan, an increase of 40.2% and 26.1% year-on-year respectively. Shaanxi's plant extract exports enter the "fast lane".
In recent years, natural plant extracts have received more and more attention and praise from the food, medicine, cosmetics and other industries. Shaanxi is an important birthplace of plant extracts in China, and it is also the main production area of plant extracts in my country and the largest province in the plant extraction industry. At present, the plant extraction industry has become an important industry for the development of Shaanxi's foreign trade.
Xi'an Customs provides front-line services and provides enterprises with advance publicity on international trade inspection and quarantine requirements, testing technical specifications, etc., to help enterprises improve their management level and resist risks.
"Focusing on key projects, we conduct food additives, heavy metals and microbial testing on exported plant extracts; combined with overseas notification and verification, we investigate risks and hidden dangers, and guide enterprises to improve their quality management level; support enterprises to build raw material planting bases, implement the "company + base + farmer" model, control product quality and safety from the source, and help rural revitalization." Kong Minmin, director of the Food Safety Department of Xi'an Customs, said, "After sufficient research and demonstration, we implement refined management according to different uses such as food raw materials, cosmetic raw materials, and food additives to avoid "one size fits all" causing additional costs to enterprises." Xi'an Customs also simplified the registration and approval procedures for export production enterprises, handled them all online, and strengthened the publicity of the origin policy, guiding enterprises to make full use of the tax reduction and exemption policy benefits, and vigorously promoted the "cloud issuance" of inspection and quarantine certificates and the "Guanyoutong" delivery service to reduce the waiting time of enterprises.