Put wings on the “World Commodity Capital”

      Yiwu, China, is the largest small commodity export base in China and the largest small commodity distribution center in the world. The export is still very hot. The customs supervision place of Yiwu Port, not far from the International Trade City, is the starting point for these “Made in China” to travel across the sea to the world. Every day, more than 1000 containers full of small commodities depart from here. One after another, heavy trucks drive out of the supervision checkpoint after the customs lock is imposed, and turn eastward to Ningbo Port to take the ship to sea.

      In view of the large variety of small export commodities, small number of single varieties, and high customs clearance timeliness requirements, Hangzhou Customs inspected and supervised the “small amount and small batch” procurement trade before declaration in the pilot market of Yiwu International Trade City. The customs will automatically review and quickly release the documents of the pilot export legal inspection commodities, and the enterprises can complete the process from data application to obtaining the electronic ledger within 30 seconds. The audit is fast and the procedures are simplified. Ou Ming said that the workload he can complete in one day has doubled. In the past, it took at least one or two days to obtain an electronic account for the export of bamboo, wood and grass products. Now it takes less than three hours to complete the inspection of more than 40 goods.

       The continuous development of small commodity export cannot be separated from the support of smooth logistics channels.
Yiwu Railway West Station is 15 kilometers away from Yiwu Port. A train full of 100 TEUs of daily necessities blew its horn and left for Madrid, the Spanish capital, 13052 kilometers away. After 14 days, these goods will appear on the market in Madrid, which is nearly half the time of shipping.

       From the simplified declaration to the reform pilot of export prepackaged food, from the "convenient release of small quantities of legal inspection goods" to supporting the "market procurement+Italy, Singapore and Europe" linkage development... As the birthplace of the market procurement trade model, the customs has made greater progress in promoting the reform of trade facilitation in recent years, and various types of pilot projects have emerged frequently, adding wings to the "small commodity city". From January to August this year, Yiwu exported 207 billion yuan through market procurement trade, up 17.8% year on year. At the same time, the way of market procurement trade has also developed from "exclusive to Yiwu" to be replicated and promoted in 30 markets across the country, which has injected new momentum into the development of China's foreign trade.