Aug. 25 – Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Information and Communications encouraged the use of digital signatures for government agencies and companies during a workshop held in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday.
The use of digital signature will pave the way for the development of electronic commerce in the country. “One of the solutions to ensure data security in e-transactions is the use of digital signatures,” said Tran Huu Linh, deputy head of the Department of Commerce and Information and Technology. Read the rest of this entry »
Aug. 20 – Following Government Decree 87/2010/ND-CP, Vietnam will exempt export and import express packages from tax beginning October 1.
The decree will also waive tax on imported raw materials or appliances for specific investment sectors or those not made in the country five years after production date. Read the rest of this entry »
Aug. 19 – Tax authorities clarified in June that corporate income tax incentives shall not apply to new business activities after a foreign company has already been granted an investment certificate.
Official Letter 2057 says a foreign invested company that decides to offer business activities in addition to the activities stated on its investment certificate shall be considered as expanding its business. The new activity will not be qualified for CIT incentives but will be charged a 25 percent tax. Read the rest of this entry »
Aug. 18 – Vietnam’s currency, the dong, dropped a further 1.1 percent to VND19,320 against the U.S. dollar from VND19,425 earlier as part of government efforts to rally economic growth and increase exports, said economists.
Yesterday, the central bank let the dong’s daily reference rate slip by 2 percent to VND18,932 per dollar. “The main reason for the central bank’s move is to balance onshore foreign-exchange demand-and-supply and to support exporters,” said Prakriti Sofat, a Singapore-based economist at Barclays Capital. “Vietnam largely exports low value- added goods and typically competes on prices.” Read the rest of this entry »
Aug. 16 – Beginning August 22, Vietnam Customs will group imports under four categories following Decision 1807/QĐ-TCHQ.
Authorities will include documents, trade vouchers, goods enjoying exemption preferences, and duty-free treatment in the first category while the second category will include taxable imports worth up to VND1 million in registration value. These categories will not be required to undergo a customs check. Read the rest of this entry »
Aug. 13 – The Vietnamese government plans on spending VND16 billion to push border trade promotion programs, says the deputy director of the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Mountainous Area Trade Department.
The agency will be responsible for managing the campaign and allotting the funds. “This is the first time money has been poured in trade promotion in border areas, so we have carefully scrutinized the programs,” said Nguyen Van Hoi adding that the money would be divided among six trade promotion programs.
Of the money, an estimated VND4.5 billion will be set aside just for improving agricultural exports at the China border gates located in northern Lang Son and Lao Cai Province. Moreover, VND3 billion will be used to develop capacity building for agricultural export businesses dealing with Chinese trade by making training courses on law, certification of origin, payment, contracts and technology available. Read the rest of this entry »
Aug. 12 – Vietnam has introduced a new online warning system that will help local companies avoid anti-dumping cases being filed against their products.
The web site, www.earlywarning.vn, was funded by the Global Competitiveness Facility based in Denmark. Vietnamese exporters have been struggling with anti-dumping lawsuits against their products from the the United States and the European Union. Read the rest of this entry »
Jul. 15 – The plan to fully develop the Dong Dang Border Gate Economic Zone located in Lang Son Province in northern Vietnam by 2030 has been approved.
The zone will span 39,400 hectares including a 1,350 hectare non-tariff area plus a tariff area, preservation area, security area and other export facilities. Dong Dang is ideally situated along the Vietnamese-Chinese border to take advantage of improving trade with China and developing the northern region. The area has been an important trade route for goods entering the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China through Pingxiang.
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Jul. 7 – Authorities have given the go signal to build a border gate economic zone (EZ) located in the southern province of Dong Thap to facilitate trade within the Mekong region.
The EZ is slated to be developed to cater to industrial production, trade, tourism, agriculture, forestry and fishery in a total area of 31,936 hectares. The zone will span the districts of Hong Ngu and Tan Hong including international border gates Thuong Phuoc and Dinh Ba along the Vietnamese-Cambodian border. Read the rest of this entry »
Jun. 22 – The largest cold storage facility in Southeast Asia opened in Ho Chi Minh City last week to provide services to the country’s local and foreign aquaculture and food companies.
The US$28 million facility was built by U.S.-based Preferred Freezer Services as part of its strategic plans to expand into Asia in the next 36 months. Read the rest of this entry »
