Vietnam's export support measures in the period 2009-2010

Over 50% of the total number of DBXB ships are facing difficulties and are not operating effectively. Investment in these projects has revealed many shortcomings and weaknesses, leading to low efficiency: the debt repayment rate of the projects is very modest, and some projects have not been able to repay any capital to the State to date.

- Quickly deploy the program "Offshore fishing using space technology". The Center for Geoinformatics under the National University of Ho Chi Minh City has the idea of using satellite remote sensing images to determine the location of fish schools. Not only helping fishermen improve the efficiency of offshore fishing trips and helping authorities control boats at sea, remote sensing technology can also be applied to survey coastal erosion and deposition and create ocean surface maps; study many oceanographic factors and marine resources such as currents, upwelling, temperature, salinity, distribution of phytoplankton, seafood... providing information for coastal aquaculture management. This is especially meaningful for a country with up to 3,000 km of coastline with millions of km2 of continental shelf and more than 100 km2 of coastal area.

3,000 islands, archipelagos like Vietnam.

- Management agencies and enterprises should step up inspection and control of the safety and hygiene of aquatic products from the breeding and raw material stages to finished products to maintain the reputation of Vietnamese aquatic products as well as meet the requirements of the import market; Research and breed new high-quality breeds.

- Consider reducing import tax on aquatic raw materials to 0-0.5%.

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- Promote preferential loans for aquaculture for people and businesses through the Vietnam Development Bank. Self-sufficiently produce and supply high-quality, affordable aquaculture feed.

Improve quality control while reducing administrative procedures for imported materials.

2.3.2. Some solutions for the rice industry

Some solutions:

- Create favorable conditions for traders and residents of countries sharing borders with our country to cooperate in the production and consumption of rice and other agricultural products. Currently, the state mechanism on this is quite clear, but when implementing, there are still many problems with customs procedures and import-export taxes.

- Due to the characteristics of rice production in Vietnam, the amount of commercial rice is often concentrated by season, especially the Winter-Spring crop (over 50% of the annual commercial rice production), so it is necessary to combine large export contracts, concentrated contracts with commercial contracts to proactively ensure timely consumption of all commercial rice, which is beneficial to producers.

- The export management mechanism also needs to be adjusted in an open direction for businesses to participate in exporting according to market mechanisms.

- Organize well the work of forecasting crop and market situations. At the same time, research and invest in building a modern warehouse system from the state budget to improve storage capacity, ensure supply-demand balance and domestic food security.

2.3.3. Some solutions for the coffee industry

- The State needs to implement solutions for the coffee industry that only the State can do. That is: Reorganize the Vietnamese coffee industry, including building appropriate organizational forms such as cooperatives; production household groups, etc. to avoid the current fragmented and small-scale forms.

- In addition, the State needs to have a policy of tax exemption or reduction for financial resources that businesses use for investment in order to change

New technological equipment, support in applying scientific and technical advances to farmers through scientists.

- Further strengthen the construction and development of infrastructure for coffee production areas such as roads, irrigation dams, electricity, water, etc.

- - Increase investment in comprehensive scientific and technological research on coffee plants and the coffee industry.

- Improve the quality of Vietnamese coffee: develop a plan to promote and encourage farmers, production and export enterprises to apply TCVN 4193-2005.

- Expanding coffee product categories, producing high quality coffee, organic coffee, special and premium coffee.

- An important direction to expand the domestic coffee market, which has not received much attention so far, is to encourage people to consume coffee. Vietnam is the second largest coffee producer in the world, but the amount of coffee consumption is extremely small. Meanwhile, Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world, also the second largest coffee consumer in the world (after the US), and is the leading coffee producing country. Serious scientific research in Brazil shows that drinking coffee is very beneficial to health. Vietnam needs to pay attention to investing in a coffee consumption promotion program like Brazil has done effectively.

- Not only coffee, but also Vietnam's pepper, cocoa, and cashew industries need special attention in terms of quality. In particular, since 2001, Vietnam has always been the world's number 1 pepper exporter in terms of export volume, with an average of 70,600 tons/year, accounting for 31.2% of the world market share.

2.3.4. Some solutions for the rubber industry

- Diversify the structure of export products, reduce the proportion of raw rubber exports, gradually increase the processing content. Convert the product structure (production of latex types LATEX, CV, SVR10, RSS...) to adapt to some other markets such as EU, North America to penetrate deeply into this market area, gradually reduce dependence on the Chinese market.

- Increase investment attraction, especially foreign investment in the production of rubber products such as tires, gloves, lifebuoys, rubber tools... to increase added value.

2.3.5. Some general solutions for the textile, footwear and leather industries

Establish a market for raw materials for the textile and footwear industries to better serve the production activities of these two industries. Consider allowing foreign investors to invest in the construction and business of a market for raw materials for the textile and footwear industries.

Increase search for partners and sign direct export contracts on the basis of enhancing product design capacity and increasing the proportion of domestically-supplied raw materials.

To solve the industry’s labor shortage, businesses need to innovate technology to reduce labor. In addition to the efforts of businesses such as increasing wages and benefits for workers, local authorities as well as businesses themselves need to pay attention to solving the housing problem for workers.

Invest in research on international fashion models, designs, and trends, promptly grasp major trends in the fashion industry.

2.3.6. Some solutions for the Electronics and computer components industry:

+ Promote foreign investment attraction in this sector through favorable policy frameworks. Develop infrastructure and synchronously prepare

Supporting factors are the most basic solution to attract investment in production and export in this field.

+ Increase the proportion of specialized electronic products and spare parts by focusing on manufacturing and assembling specialized electronic products and high-tech products to improve the technological capacity of enterprises.

+ Take advantage of the potential of electronic materials production, a field in which Vietnam has many advantages in resources. Prioritize the development of some supporting industry sectors such as: mold manufacturing, casting, plastic injection, metal stamping, surface treatment (painting, plating, etc.) to serve the production of spare parts for the electronics industry.

+ Strengthen trade promotion activities at the Government and business levels to attract large electronics manufacturing corporations in the world to invest in production and export in Vietnam.

2.3.7. Some solutions for the Wood industry

- Regarding policy solutions to remove difficulties for the wood industry, the Vietnam Timber and Forest Products Association proposed that, in the immediate period, the Government temporarily not collect export tax on wood products; extend debt repayment for debts due for goods of enterprises that have not been sold; reduce and delay payment of corporate income tax; extend the repayment period for principal loans to buy raw wood by 65 days (the old period was 275 days).

- Increase investment, create new capacity for production and processing of wood products for export; increase FDI attraction. Promote the modernization of large-scale processing industry, gradually develop and modernize small-scale processing industry in rural areas and traditional craft villages.

- Enterprises in the wood processing industry need to closely link together to form a value chain for wood production and processing for export, in which each enterprise will specialize in one stage to complete the product...

- Planning and developing a stable source of raw materials for wood processing, promoting the application for forest certification: Organizing the import of raw wood materials well; at the same time, increasing the planting of large-scale raw wood forests to urgently meet the demand for raw materials for processing. In the product strategy, it is necessary to aim at developing indoor products, while increasing the proportion of high-end products in the structure of wooden furniture products.

In general, industrial products will have a high potential to accelerate their development in the coming period due to the results of attracting investment capital, especially foreign direct investment projects in the last 2 years have increased sharply, the prospect of expanding the market, developing new products that the world has high demand for is very large. In 2008 and the following years, these projects will certainly bring huge production resources to contribute to the export expansion of the industrial sector. In this group of products, the increase in export turnover of most products focuses on the factor of increasing the export scale.

New products with high growth rates, not limited in structure and market such as: plastic products, handbags - suitcases - hats - umbrellas... will become key products in the coming period.

CONCLUDE

In 2009, due to the impact of the global financial crisis, exports continued to face many difficulties and challenges such as: the export market has been shrinking sharply, import demand and payment capacity in key markets tend to decrease, competitive pressure from Asian countries has increased, especially for agricultural products, seafood, textiles, footwear, electronics; the production capacity of many agricultural products and minerals such as rice, coffee, rubber, crude oil has reached the threshold, it is unlikely that there will be high growth in output like in previous years; some industrial products with large turnover such as textiles and footwear are affected by some new regulations since 2009 such as the US removing textile quotas for China, the EU not extending the GSP status for Vietnamese footwear exports...; many export products are currently facing trade barriers related to quality standards, regulations on food hygiene and safety...; Commodity prices in the world market tend to continue to stay low and are unlikely to increase in 2009; for FDI enterprises, in addition to the difficulties mentioned above, there are other shortcomings such as some policy mechanisms that need to be more specific, issues related to planning, infrastructure, etc.

However, “in danger there is opportunity”, there are difficulties in prices and markets but exports in 2009 also have opportunities: Loan interest rates have decreased sharply and credit access conditions are more favorable than in 2008. The Government pays special attention to promoting production and export, specifically: issuing Resolution No. 30/2008/NQ-CP dated December 11, 2008 on urgent solutions to prevent recession, maintain economic growth, and ensure social security. Accordingly, the Government has proposed groups of solutions to prevent economic growth recession; applying many financial and monetary policies to support enterprises such as exemption, reduction, postponement, and extension of tax payment time.

tax...., flexible exchange rate management policy, applying interest rate support for businesses borrowing working capital for production and business, and at the same time strongly directing the simplification of customs procedures and tax refund procedures to create maximum conditions for export businesses.

We believe that, with the coordination and efforts of the Government, businesses and industry associations, Vietnam's exports will achieve the set goals in the coming time, and that will be the prerequisite for our country to become an industrialized country by 2020.

Thank you very much!

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