The Ministry of Industry and Trade has cut down 1446 HS codes/1891 HS codes, accounting for 76.5% of specialized inspection items in the field of import and export.
This is the content stated in Document No. 8577/BCT-KHTC in response to Official Letter No. 8248/BKHDT-QLKTTW dated November 16, 2022 of the Ministry of Planning and Investment on the review of the implementation of Resolution No. 02. /NQ-CP dated January 10, 2022 of the Government on the main tasks and solutions to improve the business environment and enhance national competitiveness in 2022.
As for continuing to promote the reform of management and specialized inspection for exported and imported goods, the Ministry of Industry and Trade affirmed, reforming specialized management and specialized inspection activities to create favorable conditions for export and import goods. enterprises, especially import-export enterprises, is one of the key tasks of the Ministry of Industry and Trade in recent years.
This activity is to implement the Government's direction in a series of Resolutions No. 19 (since 2016), Resolution No. 02/NQ-CP dated January 1, 2020 on continuing to perform key tasks and solutions. key to improving the business environment, enhancing national competitiveness in 2020 (Resolution No. 02/NQ-CP) and Resolution No. 68/NQ-CP dated May 12, 2020 promulgating the Program to reduce, Simplify regulations related to business activities in the period of 2020-2025.
Accordingly, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has issued Decision No. 2314/QD-BCT on the plan to reduce procedures and list of items (with HS code) for specialized inspection under the management responsibility of the Ministry of Industry and Trade. period of 2019 and orientation to 2021 and Decision No. 1325A/QD-BCT on the List of specialized inspection items and then Decision No. 1182/QD-BCT promulgating this List to replace the attached List. Decision No. 1325A/QD-BCT.
According to this Decision, the total number of HS codes (after the reduction) managed by the Ministry of Industry and Trade is 445 8-digit HS codes and includes the following groups of items: List of products subject to specialized inspection of product quality group 2: 143 HS code 8 numbers; List of specialized inspection items for food safety: 236 8-digit HS codes and List of specialized tested items for energy efficiency: 66 8-digit HS codes.
Thus, up to this point, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has cut down a total of 1446 HS codes/1891 HS codes (phase 1 of 2019: 1051 HS codes have been cut; Phase 2: remaining 445 HS codes have been cut). , accounting for 76.5% of the number of specialized inspection items under the responsibility of the Ministry from the time the Government issued Resolution 19 and Resolution 02.
The reduction of the number of specialized inspection items has contributed to strongly promoting import and export activities, which is most evident in the country's import and export scale by the end of 2022, which has exceeded USD 730 billion, an increase of 9.5% compared to the previous year. last year. This is a record number in recent years. In which, exports increased by 10.6%; imports increased by 8.4%. The merchandise trade balance in 2022 is estimated to have a trade surplus of 11.2 billion USD and is the 7th consecutive year of trade surplus.
In 2022, there are 36 items with export turnover of over 1 billion USD, accounting for 94% of total export turnover (there are 08 export items with over 10 billion USD, accounting for 70.1%).
Source: Vietnam Shipping Gazette
