Reducing smuggling of sugar into Viet Nam requires strengthening of preventive measures and co-ordination among relevant agencies, further lowering of sugar production costs and requiring sugar to have clear origin details among other things.
Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has asked the national power company, Electricity of Viet Nam (EVN), to propose tariffs based on true production costs this year.
The programme to establish stronger links between commercial banks and
enterprises to facilitate access to preferential credit will expand this
year to include small traders, a senior HCM City official said
yesterday.
Capital demand for building infrastructure of the electricity industry
is increasing, but the industry still has difficulty in gaining access
to it, stated Electricity of Viet Nam (EVN).
Advance estimates indicate that the financial climate next year will
bring in winds of change. Viet Nam''s gross domestic product (GDP) growth
rate is forecast to reach 5.67 per cent next year, while its consumer
price index (CPI) will be 7 per cent.