Food Machinery Foreign Trade Industry June 2025 New Regulations and Developments

Food Machinery Foreign Trade Industry June 2025 New Regulations and Developments

• Implementation of China-Mongolia Customs AEO Mutual Recognition: Starting from June 1, 2025, China-Mongolia Customs AEO Mutual Recognition Arrangement will be formally implemented, which will bring a lot of convenience to food machinery foreign trade enterprises, such as applying lower rate of documentary audit and import inspection rate, giving priority inspection to goods that need physical inspection, ฯลฯ. It will help to speed up the customs clearance of goods and reduce trade costs. This will help to speed up the customs clearance of goods, reduce trade costs and improve the competitiveness of enterprises in the Mongolian market.
• Expanding the scope of visa-free countries: from June 9, 2025 to June 8, 2026, the visa-free policy will be implemented on a trial basis for holders of ordinary passports from Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, and Bahrain, which will promote people-to-people exchanges and economic and trade exchanges between China and these countries, and facilitate the development of relevant markets for foreign trade enterprises in food machinery.
• U.S. policy: the U.S. levied a maximum of 3521% tariffs on solar energy equipment in four countries in Southeast Asia, although no direct correlation with the food machinery industry, but reflects the uncertainty of the U.S. trade policy, food machinery enterprises need to pay attention to changes in trade policy, prepare in advance to deal with the situation. In addition, the U.S. 50% tariffs on the European Union postponed to July 9, the relevant food machinery enterprises can pay close attention to the policy dynamics, timely adjustment of export plans.
• Thailand’s related policy: Thailand has added 9 types of risky products to the Declaration of Origin monitoring list, and has implemented a series of measures since June to strengthen the supervision of the origin of products exported to the U.S. When cooperating with customers in Thailand, foreign trade enterprises of food machinery need to ensure that the declaration of origin of the products is true and accurate, so as to avoid the impact of the product exports due to the problem of the origin of the products.
• Canton Fair: The 137th Canton Fair was held from April 15 to May 5, food machinery enterprises actively participated in the exhibition of various types of innovative products and technologies, and established a wide range of contacts with buyers from all over the world, laying a good foundation for the expansion of foreign trade business in June and beyond.
• Quality Foreign Trade Products Exchange and Matchmaking Activity : On June 13, 2025, “Quality Foreign Trade Products Exchange and Matchmaking Activity” sponsored by the Bureau of Foreign Trade Development of the Ministry of Commerce will be held at the Changsha International Convention and Exhibition Center, as one of the core supporting activities of the 4th China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo, which will set up an accurate matchmaking platform between foreign trade enterprises of food machinery and African buyers. As one of the core supporting activities of the 4th China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo, it builds a platform for food machinery foreign trade enterprises and African buyers to accurately docking, and enterprises can take this opportunity to expand the African market.