The overall clearance times for imports and exports were compressed by 60.47 percent and 81.44 percent respectively compared to 2017.

Since the beginning of this year, Shenyang Customs District P.R.China continued to push forward the reform of government functions. "Clearance before inspection" shall be carried out on 7 kinds of mineral products, such as iron ore and manganese ore. On-site inspection and laboratory testing were changed from "series" operation to "parallel" operation, and the clearance time of imported mineral products was reduced by 70 percent compared with that before the reform.