Shaanxi Province plant extracts exports into the "fast lane"

From January to April 2024, Shaanxi exported 5,342 tons of extracts with a value of 69.8 billion yuan, up 40.2% and 26.1% year-on-year respectively. Shaanxi plant extracts exports into the “fast lane”.

In recent years, natural plant extracts are getting more and more attention and respect from food, medicine, cosmetics and other industries. Shaanxi is the important birthplace of plant extracts in China, and is also the main producing area of plant extracts in China and the first province of plant extract industry. At present, the plant extract industry has become an important industry for the development of foreign trade in Shaanxi.

There are many varieties of plant extracts, the corresponding quality and safety risks are different, and the inspection and quarantine requirements of each country are also different, which is also a great challenge for enterprises.

Xi'an Customs forward service, in advance of international trade inspection and quarantine requirements for enterprises, testing technical specifications and other aspects of the propaganda, to help enterprises to enhance the level of management, to resist risks. Xi'an Customs Food Safety Division Director Kong Minmin said, “After full research and demonstration, we in accordance with the food raw materials, cosmetic raw materials, food additives raw materials, such as the implementation of different uses of refined management, to avoid ‘one size fits all’ to the enterprise to cause additional costs.”

Xi'an Customs also simplify the export production enterprises to record the approval process, the whole process online, and strengthen the origin policy publicity, guide enterprises to make full use of the tax reduction and exemption policy benefits, and vigorously implement the inspection and construction of industrial certificates, “cloud issuance” and “customs postal pass” mail service to reduce the waiting time of enterprises. Enterprises waiting time.

“The next step, Xi'an Customs will continue to improve efficiency, excellent service, innovative supervision to promote more plant extract exports, to realize a higher level of openness in our province to attack the force.” Xi'an Customs deputy director Zhu Yuhong said.