Viet Nam is to tighten inspection of local agricultural products and packaging in a response to recent incidents in which products from the Southeast Asian country were reported to show signs of deliberate tampering with registered trademarks and origins.
Improving material supplies and proof of product origin were ways to limit the impact of trade lawsuits amid the growing US – China trade war, according to insiders.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade’s HCM City Market Surveillance Agency found 70 shops of the Con Cung Co Ltd to have violations relating to product origin, Nguyen Van Bach, deputy director of the agency, said on Tuesday.