Over the past time, the Customs has been implementing 6 active solutions to maximize the convenience for export agricultural products to be cleared through customs procedures as quickly as possible.
Talking about the role of Customs in agricultural export activities at the seminar “Cross-border import and export of agricultural products in a new context: Current situation and solutions” held recently, Deputy Director General of the General Department Customs Luu Manh Tuong emphasized that in the management of export agricultural products, the Customs agency plays an important role in both controlling agricultural export activities and contributing to promoting this activity’s development. . Accordingly, the General Department of Customs regularly directs the local customs units where there are exported agricultural products to deploy many solutions to create maximum conditions and carry out customs clearance within the same day for exported agricultural products. to the time of harvesting the main crop in particular and agricultural products in general; immediately solve problems arising in the process of carrying out customs procedures for export of goods; closely coordinate and regularly exchange information with the quarantine agency to quickly carry out procedures for enterprises.
In which, the first solution, actively simplifies customs procedures, shortens customs clearance time, creates maximum conditions and expedites customs clearance (even outside office hours). In case of changing the checkpoint of export, changing the method of goods transportation or having no need to export, the enterprise shall guide the enterprise to amend, supplement or cancel the customs declaration (for cases where the customs declaration has been registered). declaration), register a new customs declaration according to regulations to continue exporting or bring back inland for consumption.
During the peak period at the border gates, proactively issue documents guiding temporarily not to inspect the preservation of goods at the place of goods preservation, as well as guiding the consideration of not sanctioning violations. administrative law in the field of customs for acts of violating regulations on time limit for carrying out customs procedures due to force majeure situations.
For post-customs clearance inspection activities, temporarily suspending compliance inspection and assessment for enterprises with no signs of violation to create conditions for enterprises to focus on solving difficulties, maintaining production and business activities. business. Continue to develop a plan to arrange officials to handle customs clearance procedures and supervise export goods outside office hours, weekends and public holidays; prioritize, arrange and arrange for vehicles that have completed customs clearance procedures first to pass through the border gate early.
Coordinate with warehouse and yard businesses at the border gate area to arrange locations and create conditions for the preservation and quality classification of goods of enterprises while waiting for export; allowing enterprises to send export goods that have completed customs procedures and need to be preserved into cold storages (including bonded warehouses, warehouses for storing frozen natural products) at border gates.
| Creating conditions for enterprises to carry out packaging and reinforcement activities, classifying goods under the supervision of the Customs authority, etc., without changing the origin or origin; propagandize for people and businesses with import-export activities to grasp and fully understand the guidelines and policies of importing countries to actively regulate goods, decide on the type of purchase and sale, choose a border gate, enterprises respond meet the conditions for participating in import-export activities so as not to be passive, surprised or losers in cross-border goods trading and exchange activities. |
In particular, coordinate with functional agencies and forces at the border gate to hold talks and exchange with the Chinese side to strengthen customs clearance capacity and quickly solve congestion. Regularly update the situation, provide information and timely recommendations to enterprises exporting agricultural products through border gates in the area. Closely coordinate with local authorities to regulate traffic for vehicles in and out without congestion, limiting costs incurred for businesses and traders.
Second, improve the efficiency of inspection and supervision of exported agricultural products through customs procedures by promoting the application of the principle of inspection according to the method of streamlining and deciding on inspection. Expand the implementation of payment of taxes and customs fees by electronic method, reducing time for enterprises in tax declaration. To step up the implementation of the national single window and the ASEAN single window; coordinate with implementing units to implement the results of connection and exchange of commercial information and enterprises operating in the fields of logistics, insurance and other related services.
| Officials of Tan Thanh Customs Sub-Department (Lang Son Customs Department) guide enterprises to carry out export procedures. Photo: H.Nu |
Focus on overcoming congestion, system errors, and at the same time ensure online data transmission and processing between customs levels and units.
Third, support logistics enterprises in carrying out customs procedures, connecting and sharing information at seaports and airports. Coordinating with seaport business units, logistics enterprises to carry out digital transformation in logistics activities (soft infrastructure), application of blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, etc. to implement e-DO and eB/L, transport management system, seaport… Develop a backbone platform to connect available technology applications to serve the whole logistics service community, management agencies and community co-owner.
Completing the professional process of managing records of agricultural product exporters and logistics enterprises, developing tools to assist in reviewing and detecting signs of risk from the results of management and analysis of the above information. Pilot application of compliance assessment of logistics enterprises and evaluate the effectiveness of this work in the practice of state management of customs for import-export activities according to regulations.
Fourth, coordinate with the Vietnam Confederation of Trade and Industry (VCCI) and through industry associations, Vietnam Logistics service business associations and the Department of Industry and Trade to promptly notify enterprises of agricultural product import policies. of countries and suggested businesses to strictly control from harvesting, sorting, packing, loading and unloading of goods. At the same time, coordinate with the Ministry of Industry and Trade to promote trade, expand the export market of agricultural products, boost domestic consumption demand and process agricultural products; coordinate with the People’s Committees of the provinces and cities, the Ministry of Transport and Transport to direct the departments and branches under their respective functions to coordinate in controlling and facilitating the transportation and circulation of exported agricultural products.
Fifth, continuously propagandize to raise the awareness of legal compliance of enterprises in many forms such as holding dialogues, consulting and supporting export enterprises to understand the regulations of other countries on quarantine, quality standards, etc. quality, licensing mechanism, payment procedures, insurance. Border-gate Customs units promote warning and awareness raising of enterprises during customs procedures for agricultural products. Actively give recommendations to businesses when carrying out import-export procedures, especially for agricultural and aquatic products such as research and implementation of commercial activities according to international practices; Agreements in international commercial contracts should be negotiated closely and have specific provisions for cases affected by epidemics, natural disasters, etc.
Sixth, focus on exchanging, sharing information and providing mutual administrative support between Customs authorities, in order to ensure that the information received by customs is accurate and complete. In particular, in the current context, countries set requirements on technical standards, necessary and appropriate sanitary and phytosanitary measures to protect human health and consumer interests. Therefore, it is required to be careful when choosing agricultural products in trade negotiations about the tariff reduction roadmap and to choose products with many advantages for export in negotiations to be able to take advantage of the tariffs. make the most of free trade agreements.
Expand bilateral cooperation with other countries in order to take full advantage of the strengths of the countries in supporting the implementation of the practical needs of Vietnam Customs. Especially in the context of increasing economic and trade relations between Vietnam and China, the parties discussed a number of cooperation orientations to strengthen bilateral cooperation with the goal of trade facilitation and trade facilitation. effectively enforce each party’s customs laws.
| Develop a plan to coordinate with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, relevant ministries and sectors to continue and regularly negotiate with the Customs of the partner countries that have signed the Protocol on reducing the rate of inspection and quarantine, and develop a mechanism to quickly check the phytosanitary certificates and unify the food safety supervision mechanism for Vietnamese agricultural products exported to the markets of other countries, negotiate to open the market technically with the relevant authorities…
According to Customs Newspaper |
