Steering Committee of 35 Ministry of Industry and Trade said that to overcome the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, restore and develop the country’s economy, on June 5, the Politburo issued Conclusion No. 77-KL / TW in That has set the direction, urgent solutions to be implemented immediately as well as long-term solutions.
Accordingly, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has focused on synchronously deploying a number of solutions to concretize and carry out the tasks: “Focus on restoring and developing new supply chains and value chains; diversify, avoiding dependence on a market both export and import; increase exports ”.
The solutions have been implemented by the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The first is to seriously and drastically implement the contents of the Minister of Industry and Trade’s Decision No. 1457 / QD-BCT of June 3, 2020 promulgating the Action Plan of the Industry and Trade sector to restore and promote industrial and trade development in the new phase of COVID-19 prevention and control.
The work to be implemented in the field of import and export is to focus on restructuring the import and export market to exploit well the foreign market in the new situation; review, calculate and develop scenarios of market exploitation and development according to groups of goods that we have advantages, especially to the EU market and markets to which Vietnam has a Free Trade Agreement. (FTA).
Monday is, prepare tasks and necessary conditions to effectively implement the Vietnam-European Union Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) approved by the National Assembly on June 8, such as: internalization of laws Contents of the Agreement; propagandizing and disseminating to enterprises about rules of origin and ways to take advantage of FTA agreements to boost export …
Thirdly, continue to closely monitor and remove difficulties in goods exchange at border gates, especially the Northern border gates in order to improve cargo clearance capacity; exchanging and working with the Chinese side to ensure the trade and transportation at the border; regulating the amount of goods to the border, avoiding large congestion, increasing costs.
The fourth is, maintain and promote bilateral trade relations through the organization of live telephone meetings between the Minister of Industry and Trade and the Minister of Trade Management and the Trade Commission of major markets to discuss about situation of trade cooperation, thereby removing difficulties on market opening such as Australia, China, EU, Canada, ASEAN …
Thursday is, maintain the coordination and working with industry associations to grasp the difficulties, obstacles, current situation of enterprises and the necessary requirements to propose appropriate policies and mechanisms.
Friday is, exploiting market information, assisting enterprises to export new goods (such as masks, personal protective equipment, machines, medical supplies, etc.) Promote online trade promotion, boosting exports through e-commerce, connecting trade between Vietnamese enterprises and partners who want to import in markets with early resilience such as China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan…
Since then, gradually expanding to other markets according to the evolution of the disease situation.
Saturday is, invest in building and perfecting the customer relationship management software system to integrate the database of Vietnam import-export enterprises; sharing the system access rights for the system of Vietnamese Trade Offices and Trade Promotion Centers in foreign countries for joint exploitation and use to enhance the connection of business and investment opportunities.
Eighth, in collaboration with the Ministry of Transport and localities with the goal of cutting down the cost of transport infrastructure exploitation, cutting logistics costs in import-export activities and domestic goods circulation. .
And ninthly, continue to promote the simplification of administrative procedures. In particular, focus on implementing administrative procedures in the field of import and export under the National Single Window, ASEAN Single Window … to facilitate the Association and businesses to participate in import and export activities.
According to VietnamBiz
