Businesses call for help to the Prime Minister, lacking transparency in customs procedures when ‘opening the declaration at midnight

Regarding the fact that the General Department of Customs allowed the port to register a declaration of selling 400,000 tons of rice in April 2020 "at midnight", a business in Can Tho City had a "appeal" request to the Prime Minister and Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Trung An High-tech Agriculture Joint Stock Company (Can Tho City) today, April 13, issued Document No. 01/2020 / ĐĐ.T.TgCP "calling for help" to the Prime Minister, Head Office. Government and the Ministry of Industry and Trade on the customs opening of the non-transparent electronic customs declaration software system.

The text was sent by the Director of Trung An High-tech Agricultural Joint Stock Company to the Saigon Times Online at 14 hours 46 minutes, Saturday (April 11, 2020), this unit received Decision No. 1106. / QD-BCT dated April 10, 2020 and Official Letter No. 0361 / XNK-NS, dated April 10, 2020, to comply with Official Letter No. 2827 / VPCP-KTTH dated April 10, 2020 of the Government Office.

According to Pham Thai Binh, this unit has "been on duty on the computer" to open a declaration for unfinished shipments from March 24, 2020 (the company allows staff to make customs declarations until 21 o'clock. April 11), but the electronic customs software system did not open.

He also said that the unit did not find any relevant disclosure or dispatch on the "opening of the customs declaration and customs clearance software system" for the rice of Customs. “We went to the VNACCS electronic customs software system (Customs declaration software of the General Department of Customs - PV) to get the information of the declaration, we only received the notice:“ Failure to perform, conclusion Unusual urges were detected at the center, ”he said.

However, according to Mr. Binh's presentation, until Sunday morning (April 12), this unit continued to go to the system to open the declaration form, the system announced as "sufficient criteria".

In his application to the Prime Minister, Mr. Binh said that the employment of Customs is not transparent.

Mr. Binh of Trung An quoted Mr. Dinh Ngoc Thang, Director of Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department as saying: “Due to the Ministry of Industry and Trade's decision to announce the rice export quota, issued on the evening of April 10, it fell on the weekend. (Friday), so far the HCMC Customs Department has not received the documents guiding the implementation of customs clearance for rice exports, ... as early as April 13 (Monday) Ministry of Finance and The General Department of Customs has only issued documents to provincial / municipal Customs Departments. When having specific information, the City Customs Department will create the most favorable conditions for businesses to export rice ”.

Mr. Binh said that before March 24, 2020, Trung An Company had to suspend registration and clearance for export rice shipments that were on the way to the port. "Currently, there are several thousands of tons of rice that are located in ports awaiting clearance (list, number of containers received by the enterprises to make rice, shipping lines, ports, Ministry of Industry and Trade are very clear)", He said and said that if the Customs allowed to open the declaration, the first thing to do is for the rice lots of enterprises which have been unfinished to export, then let the new declaration.

Facing such problems, Trung An Company had written the above document "calling for help" to the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Industry and Trade to consider and take urgent measures to prevent "taking advantage of policies of the group interests." ".

Is canceling customs declaration of 400,000 tons of "midnight" rice?

Some enterprises producing and trading rice exports in the Mekong Delta when exchanging with Saigon Times Online said that the result of "midnight" customs declaration for 400,000 tons of rice to be exported in April 2020 will Canceled.

However, talking to Saigon Times Online at noon on April 13, there was information that the result of opening a customs declaration of 400,000 tons of rice was canceled, said Mr. Nguyen Van Can, General Director of the General Department of Customs. : "Not grasped yet".

Mr. Can said that he was outside, he would return to the office in the afternoon and check the information

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