medicine

Hundreds of tons of cinnamon essential oil are left in inventory due to export regulations

09:31 | 10/04/2024 Regulations

VCN - Enterprises exporting cinnamon essential oil are facing difficulties due to regulations on pharmaceutical trading of the Ministry of Health, leading to hundreds of tons of essential oil being left in stock in raw material areas.

Barriers make it difficult for medicine to "take off"

15:39 | 19/08/2023 Import-Export

VCN - Vietnam has high expectations for the development of herbal growing areas, raising the level of plants with high economic value, aiming to export billions of dollars.

Closely control fraud in declaring chemicals

10:02 | 08/04/2023 Anti-Smuggling

VCN - Recently, the export and import of precursors for economic and social development have risen and the demand for precursors in production and business, in the field of veterinary medicine and health care, has tended to increase.

Warning about fake medicine and supplemental food

10:43 | 28/09/2022 Anti-Smuggling

VCN - In addition, the production and trafficking of counterfeit goods and goods infringing intellectual property rights have occured in all fields and areas, including in the production, processing, circulation and import and export.

Removing problems for import and export businesses of medicines and medicinal ingredients

09:53 | 21/04/2022 Regulations

VCN - At a recent business dialogue with European businesses, the General Department of Customs answered questions from enterprises, including questions on customs procedures for importing and exporting medicines and medicinal ingredients.

Removing problems related to customs procedures for imports of medicine

09:51 | 20/04/2022 Customs

VCN - The Government Office has issued Notice 115/TB-VPCP on the conclusion of Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam at the meeting on the extension of registration for drug circulation.

MoF guides regulations on procurement amid Covid-19 pandemic

16:16 | 18/05/2021 Finance

VCN- The Ministry of Finance has issued guidance on funding sources and procurement regulations amid the Covid-19 pandemic for means, equipment, chemicals, supplies and biological for Covid-19 pandemic prevention and control (excluding drugs, vaccines and

ADB, IMEXPHARM sign loan to support generic medicine production in Vietnam

19:24 | 17/12/2020 Import-Export

VCN - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed an $8 million loan with Imexpharm Corporation to help the company sustain its production of generic medicines despite global supply disruptions caused by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

Inspect five containers of herbs originating from China “camouflaged” carrot and white radish

19:34 | 24/06/2020 Anti-Smuggling

Five containers of goods were imported from China declared as jujube, white radish and carrot but the majority of goods were herbs. It was detected at Tien Sa port (Da Nang province) by Customs authorities.

Vietnamese spend more than 2 billion USD on importing western medicine

19:40 | 30/09/2019 Import-Export

VCN - Vietnam's medicine import markets are concentrated in Europe, in addition to some large markets in Asia or the United States, while turnover from Canada is negligible.

Strictly handling the production and trade of poor-quality pharmaceutical materials

15:55 | 18/09/2019 Headlines

VCN – Traditional medicine has developed modestly. Communication activities to provide knowledge and benefits of traditional medicine to people have not met expectations.

Detecting nearly 7,000 boxes of medicine and 204 computers are not declared

09:48 | 09/05/2019 Anti-Smuggling

VCN- Infringing goods included 6,786 boxes of medicines.

Warning over declaring medicine as medical equipment

08:49 | 14/04/2019 Anti-Smuggling

VCN - Silnozigyn vaginal capsule and SIMICARBO tablets are imported by enterprises with a classification of medical equipment.

FTAs to give fillip to medicine imports

15:01 | 03/03/2019 Import-Export

Despite Vietnam’s restrictions on direct drug distribution by international pharmaceutical companies, more foreign-invested enterprises are seeking opportunities in the lucrative local market.

Guidance to lodge license in customs dossier

19:27 | 23/01/2019 Regulations

General Department of Vietnam Customs has instructed provincial Customs Department to implement the inspection for import license in customs dossier