For opening a midnight declaration, many rice exporters had to 'cry'

The General Department of Customs has opened a gate to register a customs declaration for export of 400,000 tons of rice in April 2020 late on April 12. However, many businesses do not know this information so they have to "call on heaven" because they cannot sell rice.

After the Prime Minister agreed to export 400,000 tons of rice in April 2020, the Ministry of Industry and Trade issued Decision 1106 / QD-BCT on announcing export quotas for rice in April. -2020. In particular, there are provisions on traders' customs registration and other relevant provisions and all the contents of this decision are made from 0 o'clock on 11 April 2020.

However, there are many rice exporters because they do not know the above information, so it is not possible to timely register the customs declaration (online registration) for the amount of 400,000 tons of rice allowed to be exported in April. 2020.

Talking to Saigon Times Online, Mr. Tran Tuan Kiet, Deputy General Director of Dung Nam Trading - Service - Import - Export confirmed, at dawn on April 12, the General Department of Customs opened the gate for registration. customs declaration. "They opened it last night and now (it's time to talk to the PV this morning, April 12) is already locked," Mr. Kiet said.

According to Kiet, based on the information "asking", this unit had to send employees to "watch computer" to wait for the General Department of Customs to open the customs declaration gate to open the declaration. "We have to sit and watch as if" stalking ", he said.

Mr. Kiet said that in the early morning of April 12, this unit had made a certain number of customs declarations, but had to wait for the summary report data to know the exact number.

However, according to Mr. Kiet's acknowledgment, there were many enterprises who did not know the above information, so, they could not open any customs declaration forms.

Mr. Pham Thai Binh, Director of Trung An High-tech Agricultural Joint Stock Company also confirmed that this unit could not declare any customs declaration for the export volume of 400,000 tons of rice permitted by the Prime Minister for export. in April 2020.

Stating the opinion of the enterprise, Mr. Binh said that the customs opened the gate to register the customs declaration at 2am on Sunday (April 12) and only about 3 hours after closing the gate with the declared reason. a sufficient quantity of 400,000 tons is an unreasonable thing.

Specifically, according to the evidence provided by Mr. Binh to reporters, in the period from the time of opening and closing the customs declaration gate as mentioned above, there were 399,989 out of a total of 400,000 tons of rice already registered for export customs declaration. Password.

Talking to Saigon Economic Times Online, Mr. Nguyen Van Thanh, Director of Phuoc Thanh IV Manufacturing and Trading Co., Ltd said, there are many businesses that have not been able to open customs declarations, while a few Other businesses are very much.

"Who opened the customs declaration gate at dawn?", He asked the question and said: "There are some businesses because they do not know the information, so, when they wake up in the morning, people have already declared. it's over ".

According to Mr. Thanh, the fact that many businesses fail to open the customs declaration will continue to face difficulties because of the huge congestion of goods outside the port. "Particularly for my unit, there are 70 containers congested outside the port, but we tried to only have 30 containers, and 40 containers did not," he said.

Talking to Saigon Economic Times Online, Mr. Nguyen Van Vu, Deputy Director of Customs Department of Can Tho City, said that this unit has not yet received direction for the implementation of the General Department of Customs. "In my place, I didn't find anything there because there was no Friday at work, and there was no rest on Saturday," he said, and said Monday, April 13, will be directed by the General Department of Customs.

Source: https://www.thesaigontimes.vn/302370/cho-mo-to-khai-luc-nua-dem-nhieu-doanh-nghiep-xuat-khau-gao-danh-keu-troi.html