As the wave of global trade beats against the eastern coast, Star Anise, a spice pearl carrying a thousand years of Eastern wisdom, is knocking on the door of the international market with its unique fragrance. In 2025, China's octagonal foreign trade industry will stand at a new historical coordinate, facing a new pattern of challenges and opportunities coexisting, and writing a spice legend belonging to this era.
According to data from the General Administration of Customs, the export volume of Chinese angular profiles will increase by over 40% year-on-year by early 2025, with octagonal as the core category contributing significantly. Its trade network covers Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Americas, forming a multi-level market structure. However, under the impact of Vietnam's low-priced star anise, Chinese star anise is facing severe price competition. Vietnamese star anise, with its cost advantage, has achieved an annual export growth rate of 65.6% in the Chinese market, forcing the Chinese star anise industry to climb towards the high end of the value chain.
The price trend reflects the deep game in the market. The price of ground star anise in 2024 experienced a roller coaster like fluctuation, from stable at the beginning of the year to soaring in the middle of the year, then to a sharp decline in the new season, and finally stabilized before the Spring Festival. The market is expected to continue the supply-demand balance trend in 2025, but inventory pressure limits the upward space. The main production areas in Guangxi are promoting the transformation of low yield forests, and it is expected that the future yield will increase by 15% -20%, while the high yield and low price strategy of Vietnamese ground star anise continues to suppress market prices.
The Chinese government is building a comprehensive policy support system to escort Bajiao's foreign trade: expand the coverage of export credit insurance, specifically support "specialized and new" enterprises, ease financing difficulties, promote the construction of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot areas, support overseas warehouse layout, create a new engine for digital trade, establish a whole process traceability system for planting and processing, 23 bases have passed organic certification, break through international green barriers, use the RCEP agreement to deepen Southeast Asia cooperation, and explore emerging markets in the Middle East and Africa through the "the Belt and Road"
In Shanglin County, Guangxi, modern production warehouses are rewriting traditional trade models. The intelligent supply chain hub created by Guiwu Logistics Company integrates the entire process of drying, grading, and packaging, reducing the time for Bajiao to travel from the fields to Southeast Asian supermarkets by 50%. Its innovative "origin warehouse+cold chain logistics" model has not only conquered Southeast Asian markets such as Indonesia and Singapore, but also promoted a 30% increase in octagonal export prices.
The innovation of second-hand car exports at Wuxiang Automobile Life Square provides cross-border inspiration for the transformation of foreign trade. By establishing testing centers and integrity alliances, and building a full chain service system, Guangxi's second-hand cars have been successfully exported to countries such as Armenia and Kazakhstan. This "integrity+finance" model is being transplanted into the octagonal trade field, promoting the establishment of a quality standard system.
Digital Trade Revolution: Using AI tools to accurately match supply and demand, Guangxi enterprises explore the Middle East market, with order volume increasing by 170% within six monthsGreen standard output: Transforming organic planting technology into international standards and promoting the establishment of a global octagonal quality certification system
When the fragrance of Star Aniseed Powder spreads to every corner of the world, it not only conveys the taste of China, but also a firm determination to transform and upgrade the industry. In the next five years, with the deepening of the "the Belt and Road" initiative and the extension of the digital silk road, China's octagonal will surely write a more exciting new chapter in international trade. This oriental spice will continue to write a foreign trade legend belonging to China in the wave of the global market.
Post time: Mar-31-2025