In The First Half Of The Year, Trade Value Increased More Than 11 Times.

Jilong customs officer located on the Sino Nepal border examines freight cars at the export supervision site.

In July 29th, the reporter learned from the Lhasa customs that in the first half of 2016, the import and export of Tibet Jilong port located on the Sino Nepal border.

The total value reached 1 billion 351 million yuan, an increase of 11.51 times compared with the same period last year.

Jilong port is located in the Jilong County of the Sino Nepal border at the southern foot of Himalaya Range in Shigatse.

Affected by the "4.25" Nepal earthquake, Zhangmu port, which had mainly undertaken trade and trade between China and Nepal, suffered serious damage. Post disaster reconstruction is still in progress.

Since the beginning of this year, Jilong port has become an important port for Sino Dutch trade and trade.

Lhasa customs statistics show that in the first half of this year, the port import trade value reached 15 million yuan, exports 1 billion 336 million yuan, increased by 47.13 times and 11.48 times respectively, and the trade surplus was 1 billion 321 million yuan.

Among them, the total value of small frontier trade is 1 billion 109 million yuan, accounting for 82.11% of the total value of import and export trade.

Yang Fei, Commissioner of customs and excise, said that the structure of import and export commodities showed a good trend of diversified development. The imported goods were mainly made of bronze statues, ornaments made of copper, ornaments made of aluminum and polyester fabrics.

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Agricultural and sideline products, textiles and so on.

By facilitating customs clearance, the import of Nepal card mat, blended fabric, agricultural and sideline products and other commodities will be promoted.

In addition, Yang Fei said that Jilong customs actively deepened the paperless reform of customs clearance operations. From 1 to June, the paperless rate of customs clearance at Jilong port had reached 80.77%. It is the port with the highest paperless rate of customs clearance at all ports in Tibet.

This reform enables enterprises to easily complete customs formalities without leaving home, and greatly reduces customs clearance time and logistics costs, and improves the competitiveness of Tibet's import and export commodities in the domestic and international markets.