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Indonesia plans to restrict online retailers, especially e-commerce, from entering the country, according to Indonesian Minister Cooperatives and SMEs Teten Masduki.

E-commerce platforms do not have to pay taxes on behalf of sellers, and are only responsible for providing information to the authorities.

Hanoi will continue to coordinate with the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Vietnam E-commerce and Digital Economy Agency (iDEA), Amazon Global Selling Vietnam, and relevant units to support and train businesses in skills on cross-border e-commerce, according to Vice Director of Hanoi Center for Investment, Trade and Tourism Promotion (HPA) Nguyen Thi Mai Anh.

On August 9, 2022, Hung Yen longan will be put on sale on e-commerce platforms for the first time, opening up a new trading method for longan growers in Hung Yen province.

The northern province of Bac Giang has rolled out various measures to bring “thieu” litchi – the locality’s specialty fruit – to more markets inside and outside the country.

The capital city of Hanoi is promoting information technology (IT), including the use of QR codes, in traceability to increase the consumption of farm produce on e-commerce platforms.

The recently-approved National Postal Development Strategy to 2025 with a vision to 2030 targets 100 percent of agricultural households using e-commerce platforms to move their products.

Vietnam’s e-commerce sector is estimated to have grown by more than 20 percent to 16 billion USD in 2021, according to the Vietnam E-commerce Association (VECOM).

Souvenirs and other items associated with SEA Games 31 are being sold on many streets around Hanoi and also on e-commerce platforms, for sports fans to show their love for the athletes and the region’s biggest sporting event.

The Trade Promotion Agency (TPA) and Alibaba.com jointly organised a conference on March 18 to discuss the export of goods through the e-commerce platform and inaugurate the Vietnam Pavillion on Alibaba.com.

The northern province of Bac Giang will pay attention to developing e-commerce, expanding markets for agricultural products, especially typical ones, according to Deputy Director of the provincial Department of Industry and Trade Pham Cong Toan.

More farmers have recently sold their products online in both domestic and foreign markets thanks to the support of postal service suppliers in putting farm produce on e-commerce platforms and promote digital agriculture.

E-commerce platforms may choose not to declare and pay tax on behalf of sellers.

The Ministry of Information and Communications on December 1 launched an electronic information portal at https://tmdt.mic.gov.vn. to support agricultural production households in introducing and selling farm produce on e-commerce platforms.

When the lychee harvest time of 2021 came, Bac Giang was still a COVID-19 epicentre with thousands of infection cases. Striving to concurrently fight against the pandemic and promote lychee sale, this northern province took flexible and creative measures to secure a successful crop.

Women need support to improve their capacity, and practically join and contribute effectively to digital transformation, heard a seminar in Hanoi on October 18.

The Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long has applied various measures to support pandemic-hit enterprises to recover and develop business and production, especially those in industrial parks.

Online shopping through e-commerce platforms by consumers in Hanoi rose 30-50 percent in four social distancing periods, according to the city Department of Industry and Trade.

Vietnam looks to connect 5 million farming households to e-commerce platforms this year, which would create breakthroughs in the development of the digital economy in the agriculture sector, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Pham Anh Tuan said.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade's Department of E-commerce and the Digital Economy has been cooperating with e-commerce platforms to remove barriers to the transportation of essential goods during the COVID-19 outbreak.