Ministry asks for intensifying market supervision amid COVID-19, Ukraine conflict

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has urged the Vietnam Directorate of Market Surveillance and its provincial/municipal chapters to strengthen market supervision and monitoring in the face of COVID-19 and armed conflict in Ukraine.

Goods at Aeon Long Bien supermarket in Hanoi (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) - The Ministry of Industry and Trade has urged the Vietnam Directorate of Market Surveillance and its provincial/municipal chapters to strengthen market supervision and monitoring in the face of COVID-19and armed conflict in Ukraine.

The complex developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country coupled with globaluncertainties caused by the armed conflict in Ukraine are considerably impacting on the Vietnamese market, raising prices of necessary commodities, suchas food, fuel, and medical supplies, the ministry said in an official documentsent to the directorate on March 1.

The directorate and its local chapters are assigned to keepa close watch on the market developments of the necessities, increase marketsurveillance and get tough with individuals and organisations profiteering from the currentsituation./.
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