It is difficult to bring Vietnamese agricultural products over the barrier and enter the world market, therefo...
It is difficult to bring Vietnamese agricultural products over the barrier and enter the world market, therefore, businesses and farmers must cooperate to solve this problem.
Moreover, the commitment opening markets through tax cuts, many agricultural importers are tightening technical barriers and requirements for traceability, issuing export certificates, and promoting official quotas, quality inspection in the exporting country This causes many difficulties for the export of agricultural products.
Dragon fruit harvest in Binh Thuan. (Photo: Nguyen Thanh / VNA)
The new free trade agreements have opened the door to broader agricultural products by cutting tariffs.
However, this is still one of the groups facing many challenges related to quality standards, food safety, and phytosanitary measures (SPS and TBT measures).
In addition to committing to open markets through tax cuts, many agricultural importers are tightening technical barriers and requirements for traceability, issuing export certificates, promoting official quotas and quality inspection in the exporting country. This causes many difficulties for the export of agricultural products.
Statistics of the National Notification Office and Inquiry Point on Food Safety and Quarantine (SPS Vietnam), since 2015, there have been more than 2,200 regulatory changes. SPS from 18 markets is Vietnam's main trading partner.
Many experts stated that the trend of the EU market is to increase technical barriers when reducing tariff barriers. The demonstration is that immediately after the EVFTA came into effect, the EU made three additional announcements regarding the rules for aquaculture and transporting aquatic animals; regulations on animal health requirements for moving activities for terrestrial animals and hatching eggs; monitoring rules, elimination programs and cleanliness for some of the listed diseases and emerging diseases.
Besides government regulations, the EU market also offers many standards and certifications by consumer associations, non-governmental organizations, and retailers that businesses want to export must comply with standards. global food safety established by the British Retail Association (BRC), sustainable aquaculture (ASC), global good agricultural practices (GlobalGAP).
Meanwhile, the largest market for Vietnam's agricultural products, China, also continuously changed its import policy.
Previously, Vietnamese agricultural products exported to China were quite easy, but from January 1, 2019, the Plant and Animal Inspection Department under the General Department of Customs of China officially applied management standards. quality and origin of agricultural products exported from Vietnam to China.
For seafood, China not only applies an open-door negotiation mechanism for products, but also carries out licensing for each exporter.
According to the agreement, if there are more enterprises that want to export seafood to China, every quarter, the Vietnamese side sends a written request for supplementation for China to consider including in the list of enterprises permitted to export seafood to China. this school.
Meanwhile, with all kinds of fruits exported through official channel to China, they must be issued with export certificate and certification of growing area and many regulations on packing facilities, labels.
In addition, from the beginning of 2020 until now, China has shifted from quarantine at the warehouse to quarantine at the port, which has increased the chance of spoiling fresh fruits by 5-7%, especially bananas. due to heat loss, scratches. The change of quarantine location also makes businesses spend more time and costs for loading and unloading.
With the increase of technical barriers in many important export markets, many Vietnamese agricultural products have been "entangled" in barriers, warned, returned, or even stopped from export for reevaluation.
The greater the scope, the tighter the EU will be for inspection work, typically sample testing frequency, which will reduce time and cost for businesses, thereby reducing capacity compete.
The Chinese side requested to suspend the export of mango from relevant growing areas and packaging facilities to coordinate investigation of the cause, propose remedial measures and improve management.
Mr.Vi Van Doan, at the Duy Loi Agricultural Cooperative in Muong Va Commune, Sop Cop District, Son La Province, harvests pomelos. (Photo: Quang Quyet / VNA)
In recent years, the number of cases where Vietnamese agricultural products and foodstuffs are rejected for import is always relatively high. Specifically, in 2019, there were 101 cases of being refused to import into Japan and 65 cases of being refused to import into the EU, 226 cases of Vietnamese agricultural products were refused to be imported into the US.
Most agricultural products imported into the US are subject to non-tariff measures, particularly strict regulations on quality, cultivation, harvesting, preservation, and preliminary processing methods, processing and packaging. On average, each agricultural product imported into this market is affected by 15 non-tariff measures.
For other markets, the main cause of rejection is because Vietnamese agricultural products do not meet the standards for ingredients, residues of banned substances exceed the permitted level or the packaging and transportation process. does not guarantee affecting the quality of goods.
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