Rice loaded for export (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) - Aninterdisciplinary inspection team led by the Ministry of Industry and Trade hasbeen established to work with agencies to determine how much rice is stuck atports so that the ministry can come up with an appropriate rice export plan.
Theinspection team is led by Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Quoc Khanh, and the team’s deputy head is Director of the Import and Export Department Phan Van Chinh.
Theteam includes leaders of the Agricultural Products Processing and Market DevelopmentDepartment and Department of Crop Production (Ministry of Agricultural andRural development), General Department of Customs (Ministry of Finance),Department of Economic Security (Ministry of Public Security), and the Vietnam Food Association.
Themission of the team is to work with customs authorities and a number ofagencies to determine the actual amount of rice volume at ports. The team willthen write a report on the rice export situation in April and recommendmeasures to regulate rice exports in May. This will be submitted to PrimeMinister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
Theteam’s working time is expected to be from April 20 to April 24 and willdissolve upon completion of the task.
Theestablishment of the inspection team arose after chaotic developments occurredwhen the General Department of Customs began accepting online customsdeclarations from rice exporters on April 12 after the Government approved theresumption of rice exports but capped them at around 400,000 tonnes for April.
Manyrice exporters were left disappointed since the quota of 400,000 tonnes wasreached within only three hours. And many firms with rice consignments stuck atports were unable to submit declarations.
Inrecent days, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has received many documentsfrom rice exporters saying that the opening of the e-customs declarationsoftware system has not been transparent since many firms have not receivedprior notice.
Somesaid that they could not access the system due to system error. In addition, somecompanies said that they had successfully submitted declaration forms, but theforms then disappeared on the e-customs system./.
Theinspection team is led by Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Quoc Khanh, and the team’s deputy head is Director of the Import and Export Department Phan Van Chinh.
Theteam includes leaders of the Agricultural Products Processing and Market DevelopmentDepartment and Department of Crop Production (Ministry of Agricultural andRural development), General Department of Customs (Ministry of Finance),Department of Economic Security (Ministry of Public Security), and the Vietnam Food Association.
Themission of the team is to work with customs authorities and a number ofagencies to determine the actual amount of rice volume at ports. The team willthen write a report on the rice export situation in April and recommendmeasures to regulate rice exports in May. This will be submitted to PrimeMinister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
Theteam’s working time is expected to be from April 20 to April 24 and willdissolve upon completion of the task.
Theestablishment of the inspection team arose after chaotic developments occurredwhen the General Department of Customs began accepting online customsdeclarations from rice exporters on April 12 after the Government approved theresumption of rice exports but capped them at around 400,000 tonnes for April.
Manyrice exporters were left disappointed since the quota of 400,000 tonnes wasreached within only three hours. And many firms with rice consignments stuck atports were unable to submit declarations.
Inrecent days, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has received many documentsfrom rice exporters saying that the opening of the e-customs declarationsoftware system has not been transparent since many firms have not receivedprior notice.
Somesaid that they could not access the system due to system error. In addition, somecompanies said that they had successfully submitted declaration forms, but theforms then disappeared on the e-customs system./.
VNA
