China's First Batch Of Imported Tanzanian Soybeans Cleared Customs Entry From Qingdao

China's first batch of imported Tanzanian soybeans cleared customs entry from Qingdao

Recently, a batch of 120.2 tons of soybeans imported from Tanzania arrived at the designated processing plant for follow-up supervision by Huangdao Customs Inspection and Quarantine under Qingdao Customs. This is also the first time that China imported soybeans from Tanzania.

In October last year, China and Tanzania signed the "Protocol on Phytosanitary Requirements for Tanzania Soybeans Imported into China", which clarifies that soybeans from Tanzania can enter the Chinese market after passing inspection and quarantine. China can promote the diversity of soybean import sources by importing soybeans from Tanzania.

"We strictly enforce the risk monitoring of imported food security and conduct laboratory tests on imported grain." Kong Fanming, deputy director of Huangdao Customs Inspection and Quarantine Division No. 2, said, "Customs hopes to improve the efficiency of imported grain clearance while closely supervising, to help enterprises reduce import costs and provide more quality and affordable imported grain for the country."

According to the protocol and China's risk monitoring requirements for imported food products, Huangdao Customs implemented on-site quarantine for this batch of soybeans, sampling the full range of items including genetically modified, pesticide residues, heavy metals, biotoxins, etc. Testing was carried out. The customs implemented "two-phase access" information-based supervision for this batch of imported soybeans, and the enterprise chose "Conditional Withdrawal" to transport the soybeans out of the port first to the processing plant in Jining for storage, pending the completion of the customs laboratory test results for processing. Next, Jining Customs, under Qingdao Customs, will also supervise the processing process in the factory to follow up on the phytophthora carried in the imported soybeans, such as weed seeds, to ensure inbound food security.

"We are actively exploring the African soybean import market, and a large number of containers loaded with African soybeans will arrive in port centrally in the near future." Ltd. integrated trade department business manager Wang Yongge said that the Customs through the "two access" and other reforms to ensure food security into the premise of allowing enterprises to import soybeans with conditions first raised from the port, but also to save the cost of import storage, logistics and other enterprises.

It is understood that, as of now, China is allowed to import soybeans from 12 countries, respectively, Canada, Uruguay, Russia, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Benin, and the new addition of Tanzania.

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