E-commerce booming but hard to control E-commerce in Việt Nam is growing, however many individuals and businesses are taking advantage of online platforms to sell poor quality and fake goods, harming customers and causing lost tax revenues.

MoIT streamlines procedures

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) yesterday connected its additional five administrative procedures into the Việt Nam National Single Window (NSW).

Ministries exhorted to cut red tape faster

The ministries that are lagging behind in efforts to cut red tape for businesses must submit draft decrees on their reforms to the Prime Minister before the end of October, ordered the Minister, Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tiến Dũng as the Prime Minister’s working group visited nine ministries over the last two days to check their progress on administrative reforms.

Customs clearance bond system can facilitate trade

Prime Minister meets leading US firms

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc chaired a seminar on attracting investment to Vietnam in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution with more than 40 leading businesses of the US in New York City on September 27.

VN to get customs bond system

The Ministry of Finance will collaborate with relevant ministries and agencies to review legal regulations to establish a customs bond system to facilitate customs clearance in Việt Nam in the 2018-19 period.

Experts talk trade in HCM City

The HCM City Department of Industry and Trade met with more than 50 experts, researchers and business leaders at a meeting yesterday to discuss solutions to develop the city’s main products in the trading and services sector.

Customs checks hinder firms

Deputy head of the Customs Supervision and Management Department under the General Department of Việt Nam Customs, Ngô Minh Hải, talks to Hải Quan (Customs) newspaper about inspections on import and export activities.

PM asks for removal of unnecessary procedures

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc stressed the need to shift from pre-inspection to post-inspection, issue regulations and standards on evaluation of transparency, and reduce unnecessary conditions for enhancing production.

More ports adopt NSW system

Four more provinces have adopted the National Single Window for clearance of import-export goods at all their ports in compliance with a decision issued in 2016 by the Prime Minister to expand the mechanism to all ports in the country.