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title: "Full-process Analysis of Import Agency at Guilin Railway Port and 2026 ASEAN Customs Clearance Guide - Zhongshen Trading China"
description: "Against the background of the full entry into force of RCEP in 2026，Guilin Railway Port，as a new channel for China-ASEAN agricultural product import，faces multiple challenges including differences in document standards，upgraded quarantine requirements，and complicated railway waybill settlement. Relying on 20 years of practical experience in Guangxi railway ports，Zhongshen compresses the average customs clearance time of imported ASEAN agricultural products to within 4 days and keeps the inspecti..."
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# Full-process Analysis of Import Agency at Guilin Railway Port and 2026 ASEAN Customs Clearance Guide

## Current Status and Operational Difficulties of ASEAN Agricultural Product Import at Guilin Railway Port

At the beginning of 2026,the number of international freight trains arriving and departing from Guilin Railway Port to ASEAN countries increased by 37% year-on-year,among which agricultural products accounted for more than half.Tropical fruits such as Vietnamese dragon fruit,Thai durian and Malaysian jackfruit enter Guangxi via China-Vietnam trains,and are then distributed to South China markets.This channel is 12 days faster than sea freight and 60% lower cost than air freight,which is highly attractive to owners of fresh cargo.

![How Enterprises Can Open Up Rapid Customs Clearance Channel for ASEAN Agricultural Products Imported via Guilin Railway](https://cndpic.sh-zhongshen.com/uploads/tradepics/52p4TvN8XO1rB.webp)

In actual operation,cargo owners generally face three major bottlenecks: First,the legal attribute of railway waybill is different from that of ocean bill of lading,which is prone to disputes during bank letter of credit settlement; Second,there are technical differences in the docking between the format of certificates of origin and quarantine certificates issued by ASEAN countries and China’s customs system,leading to a high document rejection rate; Third,Guilin Railway Port has not yet obtained the designated supervision site qualification for all tropical fruits,and some goods need to be transferred for inspection,resulting in uncontrollable time.These problems directly extend the import cycle by 5-8 working days and increase the cargo damage rate by 3-5 percentage points.

## Positioning of Zhongshen in Guilin Railway Import Links

Zhongshen has been operating business at Guangxi railway ports since 2006,and has witnessed the functional transfer from Pingxiang Port to Guilin Port.We do not do simple on-site declaration errands,but act as the general coordinator of import projects.We connect with Vietnamese railway freight forwarders and local quality inspection departments at the front end,coordinate the systems of Guilin Customs,commodity inspection and railway yard at the middle end,and help customers solve financial problems such as international settlement and VAT deduction at the back end.After RCEP fully entered into force in 2026,rules of origin became more complex,we specially arranged an ASEAN affairs team led by Supervisor Hu,which is responsible for interpreting the tax reduction lists and origin standards of Vietnam,Thailand and Malaysia.

## Import Process Disassembly and Key Control Points

### Document Pre-review and Standard Docking

The phytosanitary certificates provided by Vietnamese exporters are usually printed in bilingual Vietnamese and English,but China Customs requires that key information must be attached with Chinese translation.In March 2026,Guilin Customs added a new requirement: all ASEAN agricultural product imports must submit the *Verification Form of Registration Number of Overseas Food Production Enterprises for Import* in advance,and this document has no corresponding template in the Vietnamese official system.

The operation procedure of Zhongshen is: after receiving the scanned copy from the Vietnamese seller,we complete professional translation and format conversion within 2 hours,and apply for supplementary certification documents on the website of Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in the name of our registered Vietnamese cooperative partner.For railway waybills,we will confirm the letter of credit terms with the International Department of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Guangxi Branch in advance,and set the consignee of the waybill as "to order" to avoid the inability to endorse and transfer after the goods arrive.

### Port Customs Declaration and Price Verification

Guilin Railway Port implements the "advance declaration,release upon arrival" mode for ASEAN agricultural products.Theoretically,declaration can be made 3 days before the train arrives,but the Customs Price Verification Division has always been strict with the dutiable price verification of Vietnamese dragon fruit.After the upgrade of the customs internal system in 2026,it automatically captures the FOB price of the same Vietnamese product for comparison,and the declaration will be directly rejected if the declared price is lower than the system warning value.

![How Enterprises Can Open Up Rapid Customs Clearance Channel for ASEAN Agricultural Products Imported via Guilin Railway](https://cndpic.sh-zhongshen.com/uploads/tradepics/530e3AhIHodr2.webp)

Our solution is: we intervene at the contract signing stage,guide customers to adopt "CIF Pingxiang" terms with Vietnamese sellers,and allocate freight and insurance premium into the goods value,making the declared price closer to the benchmark value of the customs system.We also prepare three sets of price supporting documents: the monthly export guidance price from Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture,the transportation cost breakdown of China-Vietnam trains,and the spot transaction price we collected in Pingxiang market.In this way,even if it is assigned to manual price verification by the system,we can complete the negotiation and get release within 4 hours.

### Commodity Inspection,Quarantine and Laboratory Testing

Vietnamese dragon fruit is an imported fruit with risk level III,which requires three links: cargo-document inspection,on-site cutting inspection and laboratory testing.In 2026,Guilin Customs increased the number of pesticide residue testing items from the original 58 to 73,adding a variety of fungicides commonly used in Vietnam.More critically,there is no cold chain facility at the inspection site of the railway port.When the outdoor temperature exceeds 35in summer,for every 1 hour the dragon fruit stays in the inspection area,the cargo damage rate increases by 1.2%.

Supervisor Hu of Zhongshen signed an annual agreement with Guilin Railway Port Group,renting their standby refrigerated containers as temporary inspection platforms.Meanwhile,we have established an expedited submission channel with Guangxi Inspection and Quarantine Technology Center,samples taken in the morning can get test results in the early morning of the next day.For inspection instructions,we will analyze historical data in advance: if 5 consecutive batches from the same Vietnamese supplier are qualified,the sixth batch can apply for a reduction of inspection proportion from 50% to 20%.

### Release,Pickup and Back-end Distribution

The free storage period at the railway yard is only 48 hours,and a container rent of 120 CNY is charged per day after expiration.In 2026,Guilin Railway Port manages the socket resources of refrigerated containers through bidding,and reservation is required to get power connection during peak hours.Many customers ignore this point,so they cannot get power connected in time after the goods arrive,leading to temperature rise of dragon fruit and quality degradation.

We arrange special personnel to work on site at the railway port dispatching office every day,and complete the power connection reservation 4 hours before the train is expected to arrive.For pickup,we directly use our cooperative cold chain fleet,from the yard to the customer’s stall at Guangzhou Jiangnan Market,the temperature is controlled at 2-4throughout the whole journey,and the transportation time does not exceed 8 hours.For goods that need distribution,we have 3 cooperative cold storage around Guilin,which can provide temporary storage and palleting services.

## Practical Case: Mr.Feng’s Vietnamese Dragon Fruit Import Project

In April 2026,Mr.Feng,a fruit wholesaler in Guangzhou,handled Vietnamese dragon fruit import by railway for the first time,he signed a contract for 20 containers,22 tons per container.The Vietnamese agent he hired was not professional enough,and miswrote the HS code on the certificate of origin as 0804.50,while the correct HS code for dragon fruit is 0810.90.He only sent the documents to Zhongshen for review after the goods departed from Dong Dang Station,Vietnam.

When Supervisor Hu received the documents,the train was already halfway through the journey.We immediately launched the emergency plan: on the one hand,we contacted the Vietnamese agent to apply for document amendment with Vietnamese Customs before the goods arrived at Pingxiang; on the other hand,we prepared a situation description and applied for pre-ruling of the HS code with Guilin Customs.At the same time,we found that the actual plantation of this batch of dragon fruit was not on the Vietnamese Customs filing list,so we urgently coordinated the Vietnamese supplier to update the filed plantation information.

When the train arrived at Guilin West Railway Station on April 18,all document problems were just solved,no delay in customs declaration.But another problem occurred in the inspection link: the acetamiprid residue detected in the customs sample was 0.08mg/kg,exceeding the Chinese standard of 0.05mg/kg.We reviewed the medication record from Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture,which proved that this batch stopped medication 30 days before harvest,and the residue is a normal fluctuation during the degradation process.We applied for re-inspection at the same time and provided qualified reports of other batches from the same production area.Finally,Customs agreed to release the goods,but required strengthened source control for the next batch.This batch of goods took 4 days from arrival to release,only 1 day more than the normal cycle,but avoided the risk of entire container destruction.Mr.Feng calculated: if handled by himself,he might lose 800,000 CNY of payment plus 300,000 CNY of penalty,while the agency fee paid to us is only 6% of this amount.

## Core Value of Zhongshen’s Agency Service

After 20 years of operating railway port business,our deepest insight is: import agency is not simple document transfer,but turning the uncertainty of each link into a manageable process.In 2026,the import volume of ASEAN agricultural products is still growing,but regulatory rules are adjusted slightly almost every quarter.Our database has accumulated the reasons for customs document rejection,unqualified commodity inspection items and abnormal operation records of all our handled goods in the past 5 years,these historical data can help customers avoid 80% of common errors.

The specific value is reflected in three levels: in terms of time cost,we can reduce the average customs clearance time from 7 days to within 4 days; in terms of capital cost,pre-review of documents reduces the customs inspection rate from 30% to about 15%,reducing container detention fees and cold container electricity fees; in terms of risk cost,our compliance team identifies potential risks in advance such as Vietnamese supplier qualification,railway waybill clauses and pesticide residue standards,avoiding goods being detained or destroyed.

The potential of Guilin Railway Port has not been fully released.In the second half of 2026,the number of China-Vietnam trains is planned to increase from 6 trains per week to 10 trains.If cargo owners include Zhongshen into their supply chain in advance and let us intervene from the contract negotiation stage,the entire import chain will be much smoother.We do not do one-off deals,for every 10 containers imported by customers,we will provide a free full-process compliance audit to help them establish their own standard operating manual for import.

| Comparison Item | Guilin Railway Port | Pingxiang Youyiguan Highway Port |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Average Customs Clearance Time | 4 days | 2 days |
| Transportation Cost per Container | 3800 CNY | 6500 CNY |
| Cold Chain Inspection Facility | Temporary Refrigerated Container | Fixed Cold Storage |
| Suitable Cargo Types | Non-seasonal Bulk Agricultural Products | High-value Fresh Fruits |
| Train Frequency 2026 | 6-10 trains per week | 60-80 trips per day |

- Required documents for Vietnamese dragon fruit import: Certificate of Origin (RCEP format),Phytosanitary Certificate,Packing List,Railway Waybill,Verification Form of Registration Number of Overseas Food Production Enterprises for Import,Pesticide Use Declaration
- Key Monitoring Items of Guilin Railway Port 2026: Residues of Acetamiprid,Carbendazim,Cypermethrin,and whether fruits carry Mediterranean fruit fly larvae
- Insurance Strategy Recommended by Zhongshen: Purchase cold chain transportation insurance to cover temperature abnormal loss during inspection; also purchase customs liability insurance to cope with classification or price verification disputes

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