On the morning of January 27, two batches of airlifted goods, 374kg rock lobsters from New Zealand and 1.8-ton mangos from Thailand respectively, arrived at Beijing Capital International Airport. The Capital Airport Customs House (affiliated to Beijing Customs District) immediately opened a “green channel for Spring Festival imports” to enable those fresh/live products onto local Spring Festival market ASAP.

With the Spring Festival upcoming, customs clearance sites in this airport and in Shibalidian port saw large increases in inward fresh/live marine products, fruits, wines, etc. at rational prices to meet the festival requirements. By customs statistics, over the past two weeks, the import of fresh/live products to the Airport reached 1,182.5 tons, nearly a thirty percent increase month-on-month.

The surging import volume incurred bigger pressure on customs clearance there. To ensure commodity supply for the festival period, Beijing Customs took the following measures: set an expert consulting hotline at main clearance sites to answer questions; implemented 7×24-hour service mechanism for export clearance; opened a “green channel for Spring Festival imports” with festival on-duty staffing, reservation for declaration and inspection, etc. to ensure around-the-clock clearance of important, emergency and fresh/live goods, thus meeting people’s consumption demand. Moreover, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei customs clearance integration and Customs-CIQ 3-Singles Cooperation both facilitated the clearance of Spring Festival imports.

Customs officers were inspecting inward lobsters.