China News Service, Ganzhou, June 23 (Xiong Jinyang, Zhong Huanyi) On the morning of June 23, a container truck loaded with goods slowly passed through the smart checkpoint of Ganzhou Comprehensive Bonded Zone. This batch of black tungsten ore and tin concentrate, imported from Thailand, with a total weight of about 20 tons and a value of about 5.2 million yuan, was smoothly stored in the bonded warehouse after completing full customs supervision and rapid customs clearance procedures, marking a “zero breakthrough” in the mineral product import bonded warehousing business of Ganzhou Comprehensive Bonded Zone.
Ganzhou has long been known as the “Kingdom of Rare Earths,” with prominent endowments of strategic mineral resources such as tungsten, tin, tantalum, and niobium. The area has gathered a large number of non-ferrous metal processing enterprises, resulting in strong demand for mineral product imports. However, for a long time, local bulk mineral products were mostly cleared at coastal ports. Enterprises had to pay the full amount of import tax at once, coupled with cumbersome cross-border transshipment procedures, leading to persistently high costs. “Cumbersome customs clearance, difficult transshipment, and capital pressure” have become common pain points restricting industrial development.
In response to the industry’s bottlenecks and difficulties, relying on the bonded policies of the Comprehensive Bonded Zone and the advantages of the “Four Zones Integration” of Ganzhou International Land Port, Ganzhou Comprehensive Bonded Zone conducted in-depth research on the actual needs of more than ten key mining enterprises in the area, creating a full-chain service plan of “Port Entry – Land Port Transit – Comprehensive Bonded Zone Bonded Warehousing – Distribution and Processing,” and fully promoting the implementation of the first mineral product import bonded warehousing business.
According to Wang Xiaoxiang, Section Chief of the Second Comprehensive Business Section of Ganzhou Customs, in order to enable enterprises to make good use of the mineral product bonded import policy, Ganzhou Customs conducted on-site visits and research, explained regulatory requirements to enterprises, and guided them to complete preliminary procedures such as formula pricing filing in advance. At the same time, it implemented facilitation measures such as “appointment customs clearance” and “advance declaration,” continuously optimizing the customs clearance process for bulk mineral products, creating an efficient and convenient customs clearance environment for enterprises.
“The first order is an ice-breaking move, but normalized operation is the ultimate goal.” Fang Yimin, General Manager of Ganzhou Land Port Comprehensive Bonded Group, said that the local area is committed to building the Comprehensive Bonded Zone into a mineral bonded distribution hub based locally and radiating to surrounding areas, truly transforming resource advantages into industrial competitive advantages. “This year, we plan to promote the bonded import of mineral products worth 350 million yuan, covering multiple mineral types such as tungsten, tin, tantalum, and niobium, gradually achieving normalized operation.”
The breakthrough in the mineral product bonded business is a microcosm of the strong growth of Ganzhou Comprehensive Bonded Zone’s foreign trade in the first half of this year. According to statistics from Ganzhou Customs, the park has now gathered 61 business entities, with diverse business forms such as bonded logistics, cross-border e-commerce, and bonded processing beginning to take shape.
“In the next step, Ganzhou Comprehensive Bonded Zone will focus on building a municipal-level strategic mineral resource bonded logistics distribution center, accelerate the construction of a mineral product distribution center, promote the normalized bonded import of multiple mineral types such as tungsten and tin, and enhance Ganzhou’s voice in the national mineral product market.” Fang Yimin said. (End)
