Building infrastructure to attract investment and operating border gates on digital platforms are the focuses of northern provinces to develop the gates into key economic zones, while ensuring security and defence.
It is forecast that the demand for goods trading through Huu Nghi and Tan Thanh border gates will increase sharply as Viet Nam and other countries are entering the peak time in the harvest season of fruits and agricultural products.
The number of trucks carrying agricultural products for export has increased dramatically at border gates in Lang Son Province while the time for processing customs clearance was prolonged due to limited customs clearance capacity, causing congestions at border gates.
Representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Trade has coordinated with authorities of China’s Yunnan province in holding a teleconference on customs clearance of goods and pandemic prevention and control cooperation at border gates between the two sides.
Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh has requested ministries, sectors and localities to closely coordinate with Chinese agencies to speed up customs clearance, striving to have no congestion of cargo trucks at border gates before Tet (Lunar New Year) holidays.
Despite impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, border trade activities in Mong Cai City of northern Quang Ninh Province, which borders China, have been maintained with a surge in the volume of import and export goods compared to the figure in...
The Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of An Giang targets increasing trade through border gates by 15 per cent in 2021-25 from the previous five years to US$9 billion.
Lao Cai authorities, including customs, border guards, and medical quarantine officials, maintained operations in the opening days of the new lunar year to ensure the quick and safe customs clearance of goods.
Export turnover through border gates in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang exceeded US$1.31 billion in 2020, a year-on-year increase of 8 per cent, according to the provincial Department of Customs.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on Thursday requested provinces and businesses to temporarily suspend transport of export agricultural products, especially fruits, to Lang Son Province’s border gates due to slow customs clearance.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has proposed Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc permit customs clearance of goods through all secondary border gates in the northern province of Lang Son, which is on the border with China.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade has recommended enterprises to only transport goods to Cambodian border gates after localities of the two sides have medical quarantine in place during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.