VFA demands priority clearance for rice stuck at ports
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A rice field in the Mekong Delta. (Photo:VNA) |
It has also urged them to cancel the customs declarations of exporters who submitted declaration forms with high volumes but could not prove they had them ready for export when inspected.
The Government recently approved resumption of rice exports, but capped them at around 400,000 tonnes for April with an eye on national food security amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
On April 12 the General Department of Customs began accepting online customs declarations from rice exporters, but many were left disappointed since the quota of 400,000 tonnes was reached within just three hours.
Many firms with rice consignments stuck at ports were unable to submit declarations.
The business group said some 300,000 tonnes of rice are now stuck at ports, and authorities should create conditions for enterprises to complete customs clearance as soon as possible.
It also suggested that the customs department should consider classifying consignments at ports into those that would go through a green channel, meaning exemption from inspection, and yellow channel, meaning partial inspection, for quick clearance.
The Government should scrap all limits on exports of sticky and organic rice since they do not affect domestic food security, it said.
Checking the actual rice volume, number of containers and seal numbers is imperative to ensure the information is exactly as enterprises declared in customs declaration forms, and if authorities detect false declarations, they should cancel and sanction the firms, it said.
Nguyen Ngoc Nam, chairman of the VFA, said with their rice stuck at exit points, enterprises have to bear huge costs.
Besides, businesses that do not deliver on time have to compensate their foreign buyers, he said.
So if the above consignments are not cleared and exported, businesses would suffer losses of billions of VND, threatening their very survival, he said.
The VFA said: “Some enterprises will not have revenues to pay loans in time if they cannot get customs clearance and export their rice in April and May. "This will ... threaten their survival.”
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