Explaining the reason why import and export costs could not be reduced, Mr. Dao Duy Tam – Deputy Director of the Customs Supervision and Administration Department (General Department of Customs) said that, in addition to the increase in gasoline prices, epidemics… also due to overlap in management, issued documents are not close to reality; enterprises (DN) have not taken full advantage of free trade agreements.

On April 6, at the seminar “Finding solutions to reduce import-export costs for businesses” organized by the Customs Newspaper, many businesses reflected that recently, the costs have been pushed up, making the competitiveness of enterprises more competitive. Vietnamese goods decreased. Many export enterprises accept to break even or even suffer losses to export goods to maintain business relationships with customers.

Meanwhile, the container shipping fee continues to be announced by many shipping lines to increase by 20%, although the price is already quite high, several times higher than before the epidemic… Import-export costs have increased, making many businesses not strong enough to compete.

Johnathan Hanh Nguyen – Chairman of the Inter-Pacific Group (IPPG), said that the world oil price will still fluctuate, affecting transport in import and export, so businesses must prepare mentally to cope. From that fact, enterprises want functional sectors, especially the customs industry, to continue accompanying and have solutions to support import and export enterprises to overcome difficulties.

Enterprise representatives want transparent and efficient customs procedures to reduce costs and increase predictability

Mr. Tran Viet Huy – Head of Customs and Trade Facilitation Department (Vietnam Logistics Service Enterprises Association) said that adverse effects on supply chain, logistics and many other stages of import and export will still persist. persistent, cannot be resolved in a short time. “Although the Government has had many stimulus packages to support businesses, businesses still want more capital support mechanisms; extend the period of tax reduction of 8% to support businesses, “- Mr. Huy proposed.

In order to reduce high import and export costs, Mr. Huy suggested that transparent and effective customs procedures should be applied to reduce costs and increase predictability; quickly build and use systems for electronic exchange of data between enterprises, customs and related agencies. At the same time, the General Department of Customs should strengthen the massification of training for customs declaration agents; strengthen propaganda to use the services of customs agents because this is a proven trend in the world.

Mr. Dang Thai Thien – Deputy Head of the Department of Supervision and Management of Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department, said that Cat Lai port of Saigon Newport Corporation has a exploited cargo volume accounting for 50% of the country’s market share, more than 80% of production. The volume of goods at the port of Ho Chi Minh City has an annual growth rate of 10%, but the traffic infrastructure cannot keep up with the growth rate of the volume of goods through the port, leading to the risk of congestion at the port. Cat Lai and traffic impacts in the vicinity of the port.

Therefore, Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department has a project “Trade facilitation: Customs procedures in logistics activities and anti-jamming of import and export goods at Cat Lai port”. This project has the goal of reducing 70% of the time to receive and check customs documents and reduce 70% of the time for physical inspection of goods at Cat Lai port.

“When this project is well implemented, the Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department will upgrade and widely implement it at other ports so that all businesses can reduce the time to receive and check customs documents and reduce the time for inspection. actual inspection of goods at the port” – Mr. Thien emphasized.

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Regarding the reduction of administrative procedures of the Customs sector to help businesses maintain and develop import-export activities, Mr. Dao Duy Tam – Deputy Director of the Customs Management Supervision and Administration Department of the General Department of Customs acknowledged, In addition to perfecting the institutional system and legal documents, the General Department of Customs will continue to promote digitization and administrative reform to cut the time for customs clearance of goods across the border, save costs. for businesses, helping them improve their competitiveness.

“The customs authorities themselves realized that there are still some things in the implementation of procedures at the grassroots level that are not consistent, the skills of handling documents in handling procedures of some customs authorities, and the lack of customs staff. limit. From the side of businesses, knowledge and understanding of customs procedures and regulations related to import and export goods are still unclear, so it easily leads to problems “- Mr. Tam said.

“The customs industry needs to continue to apply transparent and efficient customs procedures to reduce costs and increase predictability; quickly build and use systems for electronic exchange of data between enterprises, customs and related agencies, on the basis of the existing national single-window network, and then on the basis of customs software for free” – Mr. Johnathan Hanh Nguyen wishes.

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