Ningbo's Trade with Central and Eastern European Countries Ushered in a "Good Start"
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- Category: Ningbo Business
- Published: Thursday, 16 March 2023 12:45
As the third China-CEEC Expo approaches, Ningbo is slowly entering the "Central and Eastern European Time".
On March 9, it was learned from Ningbo Customs that from January to February this year, Ningbo's economic and trade with Central and Eastern European countries ushered in a "good start", and Ningbo's imports from Central and Eastern European countries reached 2.69 billion yuan, a significant increase of 84.9% year-on-year.
Among them, raw materials such as automobiles and copper and agricultural products are the main imported commodities. Taking automobiles as an example, from January to February, imports of automobiles (including chassis) from Central and Eastern European
countries reached 1.86 billion yuan, an increase of 1.8 times year-on-year.
At the same time, Romanian beauty products, Polish amber, Czech crystal ware and other products from Central and Eastern European countries were also sold to the whole country through Ningbo.
"We import mostly well-known brands and products from Central and Eastern European countries, such as the moisturizing essence and anti-wrinkle cream of the Romanian beauty brand Jerovida, which are often used as souvenirs in the country." Chen Wei, head of Ningbo Dijia Weida Trading Co., Ltd., said. Data show that in the first two months of this year, Ningbo imported 1.394 million yuan of beauty and toiletries from Central and Eastern European countries.
In order to support the foreign economic and trade cooperation of Central and Eastern Europe to a new level, Ningbo Customs has successively implemented 14 detailed measures to help build a China-CEEC economic and trade cooperation demonstration zone, and provided import and export enterprises with CEE customs clearance "sentinel point" services. On the one hand, "one-on-one" professional guidance on customs declaration and declaration, timely answers to common commodity classification and standardized declaration problems raised by enterprises; On the other hand, the whole process of tracking the customs clearance and logistics process of goods, implementing the working mechanism of "appointment customs clearance" and "green channel" for Central and Eastern European commodities, and strengthening the emergency handling of customs clearance of goods.
It is reported that from January to February, the overall customs clearance time of imports and exports at Ningbo Port and Central and Eastern European countries was about 25.91 hours and 0.48 hours, a year-on-year decrease of 41.28% and 85.92% respectively, continuously ensuring the smooth customs clearance of import and export goods from Central and Eastern Europe × 24 hours