THE REASON WHY IT IS DIFFICULT FOR MANY ENTERPRISES TO REGISTER FOR EXPORTING RICE TO CHINA
According to the General Department of Vietnam Customs, in January 2023, Vietnam’s rice exports to the Chinese market reached 47,424 tons, equivalent to more than 28 million USD, down 18% in volume and 6% in value compared to that of Vietnam. January 2022. Previously, in 2022, rice exports to China reached nearly 851,000 tons, equivalent to 432 million USD, down 20% in volume and 17% in value compared to 2021.
Vietnam is currently the second largest rice exporter in the world (after India).
Before businesses reported difficulties in the process of registering rice exports to the Chinese market, Mr. Huynh Tan Dat – Deputy Director of the Plant Protection Department (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) explained: Regarding this issue: With rice and rice bran, Vietnam and China have now signed an official Protocol to officially export these two products from 2016. And in the appendix, businesses are allowed to export. 22 enterprises are allowed to export officially. However, during the past time, due to the change in food safety conditions as well as the registration of enterprises to export to the Chinese market according to Order 248, 249, now the Plant Protection Department has instructions for businesses to register according to the steps, on that basis, we will submit documents to the General Administration of Customs of China for review and approval.
In the past time, many types of documents, many products of Vietnam are being approved by your side. The Plant Protection Department is also coordinating with the SPS Office to make statistics and summarize the data of enterprises with dossiers that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has sent to the Chinese Customs to promote them to approve. Browse these records. In order to be approved to export to the Chinese market, enterprises must ensure sufficient information as prescribed, fully demonstrate the composition of documents related to the production stages in the field to harvesting, preliminary processing, food processing to ensure HACCP food safety.
Therefore, in the process of implementation, we need to complete all these documents as well as send them to the Plant Protection Department for the Department to continue to introduce to you. “As a rule, every 2-3 months, depending on each group of items, we will send these lists to you”, Mr. Huynh Tan Dat said.
In response to the feedback of export businesses, the Plant Protection Department has also reported that the leaders of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will be more proactive in the near future to coordinate with the Chinese Embassy in Vietnam. and the Vietnamese Embassy in China to continue to act as the focal point to receive and process quickly and efficiently the documents we have approved.