Measures ease workload for exporters
The Ministry of Industry and Trade has taken numerous measures to grant more Certificates of Origin (COs) to exporters in Mekong Delta provinces and Ho Chi Minh City in a bid to help the firms expand their markets.
Nguyen Van Toan, deputy head of the ministry’s office for managing import-export activities in southern Tien Giang province and its surrounding localities, said his office has supported local businesses to make declarations of origin for their exports and promptly solved administrative procedures for the firms within a day.
The office has also organised conferences and refresher courses to instruct local enterprises to make CO declarations, update relevant information in an accurate and prompt manner and reduce their costs.
Since the beginning of this year, the office has granted 1,736 COs for businesses’ exports totally worth nearly US$129.5 million. The exports were mainly shipped to ASEAN, the Republic of Korea, Japan and India.
To date, 108 enterprises in the region have registered to make CO declarations for their exports.
Between 2011 and 2013, the office provided 8,830 COs for the exports of businesses, which helped bring home US$604 million and increase the competitive edge of Vietnamese exports.