Shantou Customs Services Support Tea Export from "Green Leaves" to "Golden Leaves"

Shantou Customs Services Support Tea Export from "Green Leaves" to "Golden Leaves"

The shade of green trees is thick, and the summer is long. Tea farmers are busy picking fresh tea. Now it is the peak season of spring tea picking and sales, and tea gardens in eastern Guangdong are bustling. Lin Ruiman and Chen Zhiying, officers of Chaozhou Customs under Shantou Customs, shuttle among the green tea trees to scientifically monitor the risks of pesticide residues and heavy metals in tea.

Help tea export and promote rural revitalization. Shantou Customs took the opportunity to carry out theme education, went deep into tea gardens and tea enterprises to do a good job of investigation and research, widely collected the practical difficulties encountered in the process of tea planting and export, formulated assistance measures, and took the initiative to "pave the way" for tea export and relieve difficulties.

Be a good "quality controller"

On May 30, the 72 kg "duck feces fragrance" Phoenix single cluster tea produced by Guangdong Dayue Mingzhu Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. was successfully exported after being supervised and qualified by Shantou Customs.

"At the beginning, we were worried that our products would not be recognized by customers. The customs service and technical guidance eased our concerns, and customers reported that they were very satisfied with our products." Shen Yunrui, head of Dayue Mingzhu Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd., said.

In order to help tea better "go global", Shantou Customs continued to make efforts in source supervision, inspection and control, arranged technical personnel to go deep into the tea production base, understood the risk points of additives, microorganisms, packaging specifications, environmental sanitation, etc. in the production process of single cluster tea, guided enterprises to conduct sampling and sample submission, and assisted tea quality export.

"We actively promote the mode of 'daily supervision+sampling inspection+base management', start from the source of production, strengthen the monitoring of base tea, help enterprises to scientifically monitor the use of pesticides, fertilizers and other inputs, better prevent the risk of pesticide residues and heavy metals exceeding the standard, and lay a solid foundation for improving the quality of exported tea." Xu Daobin, a member of the Animal and Plant Food Safety Department of the Import and Export Food Safety Department of Shantou Customs, introduced.

Be a good "instructor"

Recently, a batch of 14 tons of oolong tea from Shantou Fengpei Tea Culture Co., Ltd. passed the on-site inspection of Shantou Customs officers and will be exported to overseas markets.

"Unlike ordinary assembly line products, tea production requires careful control by workers, which is crucial to ensure product quality. We still do not know much about the food standards of the export destination country," said Lin Junteng, the head of Fengpei Tea Culture Co., Ltd.

In order to facilitate the smooth "going out of the mountain and into the sea" of tea, Shantou Customs is a good technical "instructor" for tea enterprises, dynamically collecting relevant foreign standards on the limit of pesticide residues in tea and non pesticide projects, and guiding enterprises to produce in compliance with standards.

"We implement the 'tea enterprise contact' system, popularize tea food safety laws and regulations and relevant knowledge, and guide enterprises to organize production and processing in accordance with the standards of the export destination country." Xu Daobin introduced that the Customs, through the help of enterprise rescue hotline, "delivering policies to the door" and other ways, promotes international food safety risk information to enterprises and helps enterprises analyze potential risk points, Perfect self inspection and automatic control system.

Be a good "escort"

"Our company is willing to export in the near future, but is not familiar with the tea standards of the export destination country. Chaozhou Customs immediately organized business backbones to introduce relevant tea laws, regulations and standards and dynamic adjustment measures for inspection and quarantine to us after investigating and learning this situation, and gave a detailed interpretation of key projects such as pesticide residues and heavy metals," said Xie Chuping, assistant general manager of Jinquezui Tea, Now the company has the direction and focus to expand new markets.

"One tea enterprise is connected with hundreds of tea farmers, and the customs can help tea enterprises export and tea farmers become rich by thinking more." Tao Weizheng, deputy director of the Import and Export Food Safety Department of Shantou Customs, said that in view of the actual situation that the tea export enterprises in the customs area are mainly small and micro enterprises, the customs will pay close attention to the actual problems encountered by enterprises in the export process, provide base planting The "package" of technical support, such as raw and auxiliary material acceptance, production process control, etc., focuses on promoting the mode of "giving priority to the review of documents, the arrangement of inspection, and the implementation of inspection" to ensure the rapid customs clearance of exported tea.

According to statistics, in the first four months of this year, Shantou Customs supervised the export of 258 tons of tea.