The reporter learned from Shanghai Customs that in the first eight months of this year, Shanghai's import and export value to countries jointly built the "Belt and Road" was 1.21 trillion yuan, an increase of 12.6% year-on-year. Shanghai Customs continues to optimize regulatory services, promote enterprises to accelerate the development of emerging markets, and help Shanghai improve quality and efficiency of trade exchanges with countries jointly building the "Belt and Road".

"One-to-one" precise guidance to help efficient export of power equipment

Recently, under the efficient service guarantee of Songjiang Customs, a batch of transformers worth 5.605 million yuan of goods by Zhengtai Electric Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zhentai Electric") was successfully shipped and exported to Italy. Zhengtai Electric is a key enterprise in Songjiang District. Its products cover power equipment and intelligent electrical systems, and are widely used in new energy, rail transit and other fields.

In the process of expanding the "Belt and Road" market, enterprises once faced the problem of long customs clearance due to their unfamiliarity with the technical standards of exporting countries. Songjiang Customs arranges business backbones to actively connect, help enterprises sort out overseas technical standards and access requirements, guide products to benchmark relevant performance indicators one by one, and ensure that they meet the requirements of the target country. At the same time, we actively promote convenient measures such as self-service printing of certificates of origin, guide enterprises to make full use of preferential trade agreement tax rates, and further shorten customs clearance time.

"With the support of customs, our products fully comply with the green standards and performance requirements of Greece, Italy and other countries, and export orders continue to grow." Huang Jian, logistics manager of Zhengtai Electric, said, "In the first eight months, our company's exports to countries jointly built the Belt and Road Initiative reached 1.45 billion yuan, an increase of 88.9% year-on-year." In the first eight months of this year, Songjiang District exports to countries jointly built the Belt and Road Initiative countries, an increase of 45.8 billion yuan, an increase of 55.1% year-on-year.

Cooperation between Guangang and Port to smooth logistics, bulk exports have increased significantly

Longwu Branch of Shanghai International Port (Group) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Longwu Port District") is one of the main bulk cargo terminals of Shanghai International Port Group and is an important part of the construction of Shanghai Shipping Center, mainly importing and exporting equipment, steel, non-ferrous metals and other goods.

Recently, a batch of liquid-gas separators submitted for export to Kuwait arrived at the port area. As a supporting component of crude oil drilling equipment, the delivery period of this batch of goods was tight. For this reason, Longwu Customs and the port area actively coordinated and made efforts in the same direction to promote the rapid customs clearance of goods. According to Wang Jia, deputy chief of the second section of the material control inspection and inspection department of Longwu Customs, which belongs to Shanghai Customs, in order to improve the efficiency of import and export customs clearance, the customs established a cooperation mechanism for customs clearance by customs, ports and other convenient measures such as online video surveillance, offline field supervision and real-time information sharing, combined with "early declaration", "unaccompanied inspection" and 24-hour customs clearance, the goods are "commanded, inspected, and released", effectively ensuring the two-way smooth trade of Shanghai countries with the joint construction of the "Belt and Road". On September 10, the shipment was set to Kuwait as planned.

In the first eight months, Longwu Customs supervised the export of 116,100 tons of steel and 215,100 tons of engineering equipment to countries jointly built the "Belt and Road" period, an increase of 43.69% and 8.91% year-on-year respectively.

AEO certification empowers bulk trade, speeds up and reduces cost

Xinxing Casting Pipe (Shanghai) Metal Resources Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Xinxing Casting Pipe") is a foreign trade enterprise registered in Hongkou District. It is mainly engaged in global trade in non-ferrous metals, chemical materials and other commodities. Its business network covers Asia, Europe, North and South America and Africa to jointly build the "Belt and Road" countries.

On August 11, Xinxing Casting Pipe applied to Hongkou Customs, a subsidiary of Shanghai Customs, to import 990 tons of polyethylene from the countries in the Middle East to jointly build the "Belt and Road" country. As an AEO advanced certification enterprise, Xinxing Casting Pipe enjoys convenient measures such as priority processing of AEO special windows, and the application time for enterprise appointment customs clearance has been shortened, achieving rapid verification and release. At the same time, through the "Civilian Chief's Officer's Door-to-door Policy" and the service package system, Hongkou Customs immediately carried out the interpretation of the "one-to-one" announcement policy in response to the characteristics of the easy-to-disinfection and high turnover requirements of imported mineral resources in emerging casting pipes; and jointly carried out policy publicity for key import and export enterprises for them, helping enterprises develop from multiple perspectives such as compliance, cost, efficiency and market.

Under the credit cultivation of Shanghai Customs, Xinxing Casting Pipe obtained AEO certification this year. With its credit advantages, it enjoys conveniences such as priority processing and low inspection rates at all ports. The cargo turnover efficiency has been greatly improved, and logistics and time costs have been reduced. Since 2025, Xinxing Casting Pipe has imported products from 16 countries including South Africa, including the "Belt and Road" to jointly build the "Belt and Road" with an amount of approximately US$1.494 billion.

"Embedded" supervision to serve the efficient clearance of large equipment

On September 18, a total of 16 pieces and 4,477 cubic meters of PUSRI-IIIB synthetic ammonia urea project equipment exported to Indonesia were shipped from Shanghai Zhanghuabang Wharf through the "Oriental Energy" ship under the supervision of Shanghai Wusong Customs, which belongs to Shanghai Customs.

The PUSRI-IIIB synthetic ammonia urea project is a large-scale EPC general contracting project undertaken by Chinese companies in the Indonesian market. The project has large equipment, large size, and high customs clearance time requirements. To this end, Shanghai Wusong Customs has opened a "green channel" and implemented a convenient model of "appointment inspection, instant inspection" to achieve accurate connection of various regulatory links. During the arrival of the goods, they arrive in different batches through land and water transport. Some large bulk cargoes cannot directly fall on the site due to their oversized size or heavy weight, which brings difficulties to supervision. While ensuring the effectiveness of supervision, Shanghai Wusong Customs maximizes the convenience of enterprise warehousing and logistics operations, ensuring that the goods can be "directly loaded on the side of the ship" and exported smoothly.

"Customs actively send policies and services, and the customs clearance efficiency has been greatly improved. In the future, we will continue to export various equipment such as flash evaporation towers." Chen Dongyu, Shanghai Rongda International Logistics Co., Ltd., said. In the first eight months of this year, 4.602 million tons of goods were exported to the countries that jointly built the "Belt and Road" through the Wusong Port in Shanghai.