Support teams to be formed to help remove customs clearance obstacles

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Hanoi (VNA) – The General Department of Vietnam Customs has issued official letter No. 3980/TCHQ-GSHQ asking customs departments and sub-departments nationwide to set up support teams to remove obstacles in processing customs clearance procedures for import-export goods, especially medical supplies, medicines, vaccines and bioproducts for testing.

The teams will be led by leaders of the  customs departments and sub-departments.

Alongside, a number of urgent measures have been applied to ensure fast customs clearance process for import-export goods.

Specifically, time for completing the examination of customs documents and checking of goods should not exceed two hours and eight hours respectively.

The sub-department-level teams will be on duty round-the-clock to remove obstacles in customs clearance process, ensuring fast process.

Earlier, the general departments issued a number of guiltiness detailing measures to support fast customs clearance to assist importers and exporters./.

VNA