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Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung chaired a meeting with the ministries this afternoon to eliminate some difficulties in exporting and storing rice.
Companies have difficulties with customs declarations
Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce Tran Quoc Khanh said that immediately after the Prime Minister’s Directorate, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce issued a decision to announce the 400,000-ton rice export quota in April.
However, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce has received many opinions from rice exporting companies, reflecting inadequate registration of the declaration form when they were not informed about when to start receiving the declaration or could not access it. . The system. In particular, there are cases where registration is possible, but then the declaration is lost in the system …
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| Vice Minister of Industry and Commerce Tran Quoc Khanh |
Therefore, on April 15, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce submitted a written request to the Ministry of Finance for their consideration and resolution of business proposals and requested the Ministry of Finance to publish a list of merchants who have registered customs declarations. Export by quota of 400,000 tons.
The Ministry of Industry and Commerce also proposed that the Government allow the export of sticky rice on demand and not include it in the quota that is allowed to be exported in April and in the coming days.
Deputy Finance Minister Vu Thi Mai said that during the period of 0-6h15 on 12/4, there were 38 companies registered 519 export declarations with a registered quantity of rice of 399,989 tons.
For rice shipments that are currently in the port not yet exported, the Ministry of Finance requests the Government to allow the export of rice shipments that have been brought to the port before March 24 but have not yet registered declarations. customs in April. confirmed by companies, commercial port units, customs authorities (143,453 tons). The amount of rice exports will be deducted from the quota for this month of May.
With respect to food reserves, the State Reserve Department has signed a 7,700 ton contract, the remaining 170,300 tons of contractors won the offer but refused to sign the contract. The General Reserve Department has plans to select contractors to re-bid 182,300 tons of rice in open bidding on 5/12, which are expected to be available before June 30.
Managing past rice exports has many problems.
Concluding at the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung noted that ensuring food security is a strategic and important issue, especially in the context of the Covid-19 epidemic and the climate, climate change. very complicated Therefore, the export of rice in the current context must be considered with care and caution; First, it must guarantee national food security.
The deputy prime minister recalled that the process of operating the export of rice recently has many problems that make public opinion, the press and the business community reflect severely. This responsibility falls on the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Ministry of Finance and the relevant agencies.
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| Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung |
“Coordination between the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce is not close, harmonious, and greatly affects the efforts of the Government and the Prime Minister to prevent and fight epidemics while focusing on developing production and ensuring real wage security, ensure people’s lives, “stressed the deputy prime minister.
The Deputy Prime Minister noted that the purchase of rice reserves did not meet the objective and proceeded very slowly and requested the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Ministry of Finance to take seriously the experience in coordinating tasks assigned by the Government.
Mr. Dung called on the relevant ministries and agencies to ensure that it does not affect food security, that they do not allow people to be short of rice, ensuring two goals of developing production, boosting exports and comedy. harmonize the interests of the State, companies and individuals.
“First, ask ministries and branches to immediately overcome current deficiencies. The Ministry of Industry and Commerce will coordinate with the Ministry of Finance to inspect the reality of companies that have rice in stock in the port but that do not open a declaration, discover those companies that have declared or granted quotas but do not have rice to regulate and they do not allow losses for companies, “the deputy prime minister asked the finance ministry to take charge of buying enough national reserves.
The deputy prime minister also requested an advance of 100,000 tons of rice from the export quota in May to eliminate difficulties for companies that currently have rice stocks in the port but have not yet opened a customs declaration.
In the immediate future, glutinous rice exports remain normal, while reviewing and evaluating the supply and general demand of the internal market to manage exports ensures that there is no shortage.
In addition, the Deputy Prime Minister requested permission to export without quotas for production orders at the request of importers in foreign countries. The Ministry of Finance will review the processes and procedures to open customs declarations, will guarantee publicity and transparency, so as not to cause negative consequences and profit policies …
According to VGP
The Prime Minister requested a sudden inspection of rice exports.
The Government Office has just sent a document to the Government Inspectorate, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, conveying Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s address on rice exports in recent years.
