Recently, the reporter learned from Sanmenxia customs that in the first eight months of this year, the total import and export value of our city's foreign trade was 16.85 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 41%, ranking the third in the province. Among them, the import value was 15.25 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 44.8%; The export value was 1.6 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.9%.

The main imported products of our city are mineral products, including copper concentrate, gold concentrate and crude copper, accounting for 99.4%. Among them, the import value of copper concentrate exceeded 10 billion yuan. This year, crude copper imports increased significantly, with the value of imports nearly 3 billion yuan, an increase of 1.4 times.

Exports turned from decline to increase, and the export of industrial products grew rapidly. The main exported food and agricultural products are canned vegetables, fruit juice, fresh apples, etc. Among them, the export value of vegetables and their products is 730 million yuan, the export value of fruit juice is 89.46 million yuan, and the export value of fresh apples is 64.12 million yuan. In the first eight months, the export of industrial products in our city increased significantly, including the export of mechanical and electrical products of 180 million yuan, with a growth rate of 94.2%; The export value of copper foil was 130 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 60.3%; The export value of ceramic products is 11.72 million yuan. In the past year, the export of our city has shown positive growth for the first time. In August alone, it exported 330 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 181%.

The number of customs declaration forms doubled, and the effect of business return was obvious. Sanmenxia customs actively serves the development of foreign trade based on its functions, vigorously supports the enterprises under its jurisdiction to carry out localized customs clearance business, successively establishes four special classes, takes supporting business return as the focus of the practical activity of "I do practical things for the masses", actively carries out the activity of "10000 people helping 10000 enterprises", delivers policies to the door, plans in advance and advances steadily. Smooth the communication channels between customs and enterprises, actively play the role of enterprise coordinator, and carry out more than 20 times of enterprise customs declaration business training one-on-one. So far, 692 customs declarations have been accepted, with a year-on-year increase of 78.4%, which is close to the total amount of last year.

Actively promote the construction of the city's open platform. In September this year, Sanmenxia customs actively overcame the impact of disasters, continuously improved the service quality, opened a "green channel" to help enterprises obtain registration qualification in time, took the initiative to connect, carried out cloud guidance and online approval, and reduced the approval items in 20 working days to 5 days, which contributed to the landing of the first wood packaging fumigation enterprise in the province in our city. After obtaining the qualification of wood packaging fumigation, the enterprise can provide export wood packaging for enterprises in western Henan and even the golden triangle of the Yellow River, which will effectively reduce the logistics cost of relevant foreign trade enterprises, further optimize the business environment and promote the better development of foreign trade economy in our city.