Deputy PM directs ministries to boost agro-product exports

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has asked governmental agencies to help facilitate agro-product exports since it faced a decline in the first four months of this year.
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has asked governmental agenciesto help facilitate agro-product exports since it faced a decline in thefirst four months of this year.

The leader hasrequested that the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) forms aninter-sector working team on exports and imports while speeding upnegotiations on trade agreements.

MoIT was asked to increase its promotional activities and better manage cross-border import and export activities.

The Deputy PM has asked the Ministry of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment to review regulations concerning quarantine procedures andto revise unsuitable regulations.

He has alsoordered the State Bank of Vietnam to examine proposals providingincentivised credit packages for enterprises that export agro-products.

The Ministry of Finance will examine added valuetaxes and other tariffs on tea, semi-processed rubber and spare partsused in hi-tech products.

Hai asked the Ministryof Transport to examine the problem of overloaded vehicles transportingagro-product exports and to control fees charged by shipping companies.

In the January-April period, the export ofagro-forestry-aquatic products was estimated at 8.5 billion USD, adecrease of 5.1 percent year on year.-VNA

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