General Department of Customs Applying priority to businesses

DNHN - Nguyen Van Tho, Deputy Director General of the General Department of Customs, the signing of the Mutual Recognition Agreement on the Priority Enterprise Program (DN) with ASEAN countries

Organizations are entitled to the priority system

The General Department of Customs has just signed an Agreement on the mutual recognition of the Priority Enterprise Program with the customs of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states, including Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Nguyen Van Tho, Deputy Director General of the General Department of Customs, stated that Vietnam has been piloting the Priority Enterprise Program since 2011 and officially implementing it in 2014 through the introduction of regulations on the Priority Enterprise Program. This program currently applies to businesses with import and export operations.

By the end of 2022, after eight years of Priority Enterprise Program implementation in Vietnam, 74 enterprises will be subject to the priority enterprise regime, including 23 Vietnamese enterprises, 15 Korean enterprises, and 15 Japanese enterprises. Ban, the remainder are United States, Taiwan (China), Italian, and Danish businesses...

The import-export turnover of 74 priority enterprises will reach 221 billion US dollars in 2021, accounting for approximately 30 percent of the country's total turnover. The priority business sectors are extremely diverse, ranging from industry, outsourcing, and processing to agriculture and the creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs.

Sharing the benefits of signing the Mutual Recognition Agreement on the Priority Enterprise Program with ASEAN member countries, Deputy Director General Nguyen Van Tho stated that through the Mutual Recognition Agreement, priority enterprises will enjoy many benefits, such as: reducing customs clearance time and related costs (storage costs, labor costs); ensuring on-time delivery; enhancing competitive advantage; and bolstering the security of the supply chain of goods when transiting through ASEAN member countries.

When evaluating and classifying priority enterprises of countries that have signed the Mutual Recognition Agreement on the Priority Enterprise Program, the customs authorities of those countries will recognize and coordinate to address the challenges faced by enterprises. encountered to implement the necessary monitoring and management procedures.

Also according to the head of the General Department of Customs, priority enterprises will reap the benefits of mutual recognition agreements when engaging in import-export activities with partners from nations that have signed agreements with Vietnam. To take advantage of these agreements, Vietnam's priority enterprises may seek suppliers and customers in countries that have signed agreements with Vietnam.

Focusing the application of regulations on priority businesses

In the future, the General Department of Vietnam Customs will continue to improve the regulations on priority enterprises based on the recommendations of the World Customs Organization on Applicable conditions, priority regimes, powers and responsibilities of customs offices; Rights and obligations of enterprises, customs management for priority enterprises, building and promoting the implementation of agreements; and Applicable conditions, priority regimes, powers and responsibilities of customs offices. essential work in the world

The Customs Development Strategy to 2030 outlines the objective of promoting the implementation of agreements on mutual recognition of priority enterprises between Vietnam Customs and the customs of the world's most significant partner nations.

To achieve the aforementioned objective, it is crucial to amend domestic law so that Vietnam's Priority Enterprise Program provisions are comparable to those recommended by the World Customs Organization. necessary. This will contribute to the reduction of time spent in negotiations with other nations.

Until now, countries in the ASEAN region have implemented the Priority Enterprise Program to varying degrees, depending on their respective circumstances. Nevertheless, virtually all nations have implemented the Program by the recommendations of the World Customs Organization's Security and Safety Standard Framework (SAFE).

"The pilot implementation of the agreement with ASEAN nations will pave the way for the General Department of Customs to negotiate and sign with other nations," stated Deputy Director General Nguyen Van Tho.

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