By December 10, approximately 4,000 trucks carrying agricultural products and goods had been held up for having not been able to make customs clearance in Lang Son Province.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) held an online forum on the consumption of agricultural products of Long An Province in the HCMC market and the export through the Northern border gates on December 11 at the Agricultural Trade Promotion Center in Hanoi.
Sggpnews.org.vn reported that Le Thanh Hoa, Deputy Head of the Agro Processing and Market Development Authority under the MARD, stated that the trucks carrying agricultural products and goods had been jammed because they could not carry out customs clearance procedures.
At the three border gates of Huu Nghi, Tan Thanh and Chi Ma, the current customs clearance speed has fallen by more than half to about 220 container trucks per day, Hoa said at a conference on agriculture trade held Saturday in Hanoi. For each truck carrying dragon fruit, jackfruit, and other fruits stuck at the Tan Thanh gate, it was taking 10-14 days on average to get customs clearance.
China was Vietnam’s second-largest export market for agricultural, forestry and fishery products behind the U.S., posting an export turnover of $8.4 billion in the first 11 months of the year, accounting for 19.2 percent of Vietnam’s total agricultural exports.
Source: retailnews.asia
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