Harvesting pepper – Photo: N.TRÍ
In an application to the Prime Minister on July 13, 13 enterprises with export pepper stuck in Nepal said that on April 6, 2020, the Government of Nepal banned the import of 5 items including pepper, the ban had Valid from March 29, 2020, does not apply to LC (open letter credit before March 29, 2020).
Although the ban information is known, according to a statement from Nepal importers, the ban only banned shipments after March 29, 2020, and those that were shipped before this date. Still allow normal import.
However, according to these businesses, after the goods arrived, the buyer informed that they did not have an import license from the government, so Nepalese banks did not accept payment.
“At present, 13 Vietnamese pepper exporting enterprises are stuck with 42 containers at Birgunj-Nepal port and 16 containers at Kolkata port (Nepal – India border), the value of these containers is over 3 million USD. ”, Representative of the Information Pepper Association.
According to this unit, for more than a month, pepper exporting enterprises have contacted the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Vietnamese Embassy in India and the International Pepper Association to ask for assistance in towing containers. goods on to Vietnam but still not effective.
Also according to the above units, Vietnamese businesses did not have any errors in this ban, shipments were before the ban was issued.
“Currently, our businesses are sitting on fire because they are operating moderately because their capital has been put into these containers, overdue interest rates from banks, and container storage fees increased exponentially. The reason is that the quality of the product is damaged when it has to stay in the port too long.
In the application sent to the Prime Minister, businesses wrote: “We pretend to make this application to the Prime Minister, Mr. Nguyen Xuan Phuc, and other ministers to intervene with the governments of Nepal and India to supporting the rescuing of trapped pepper containers at Birgunj-Nepal port and the border between Nepal and India, helping us to re-export the above mentioned pepper shipments back to Vietnam. ”
According to the Vietnam Pepper Association, the epidemic situation in Nepal and India is increasing again every day, the Indian Government is re-applying blockade of some states, making many businesses more worried.
