The mango growing area currently stands at some 87,000 ha, 48 percent of which is in the Mekong Delta. Vietnam shipped over 180 million USD worth of mangoes abroad last year, accounting for only 1.15 percent of the world’s total. China was the largest market of Vietnam, with nearly 152 million USD, or 83.9 percent of the total, followed by Russia, the U.S., the Republic of Korea, the EU, Australia, and Japan, according to MARD’s Agro Processing and Market Development Authority. To achieve the export target, Deputy Director of MARD’s Plant Protection Department Nguyen Thi Thu Huong called on the ministry to upgrade her department’s technical centers so as to carry out studies helping to remove technical barriers, seek new markets, and conduct pre-export checks. She also recommended MARD digitize its databases on farming zones, processing establishments, and packaging facilities. While localities should enhance connectivity between cultivation areas and increase training for … [Read more...] about Ministry targets 650 million USD from mango exports by 2030
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Suez Canal incident keeps Vietnamese exporters busy
Suez Canal incident keeps Vietnamese exporters busy, photo AFP Furniture exporter Viet Products Corporation last week said that even though the backlog has been cleared up at the Suez, it has still borne the growing costs for shipping. “The expense per container has increased to $5,000, from $3,000 last year,” said Nguyen Van Sang, managing director of Furnist, a brand under Viet Products. Sang said that due to operating under the free-on-board form, its partners have been afraid to book new orders, resulting in interruption in its performance. “It takes us several attempts to ship a container. For example, with a 10-container booking, we can only ship about three or four containers, and the remaining ones will have to wait. That has hampered us from delivering on schedule,” Sang said. The seafood industry has also been put in the same corner. Truong Dinh Hoe, secretary-general of the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP), said that the sector is … [Read more...] about Suez Canal incident keeps Vietnamese exporters busy
E-stamp labeling on tobacco and alcohol products to be mandatory from next year
The Ministry of Finance has recently issued Circular 23/2021/TT-BTC on printing, issuance, management, and usage of e-stamps labeling on tobacco and alcohol products. Illustrative image – File photo Accordingly, e-stamp means having signs recognizable to the naked eye and containing e-information and e-data activatable and searchable on e-portals of the General Department of Taxation and General Department of Customs. Especially, tobacco and alcohol products must be labeled with e-stamps from July 1, 2022. Each home-made or imported cigarette pack or liquor bottle must be affixed with an e-stamp. For cigarette packs and liquor bottles covered with cellophane films, e-stamps would be affixed to products before the outer cellophane layers are sealed. E-stamps would be affixed in such a way that once the cigarette packs or liquor bottles are opened, they would be torn and could not be reused. Cigarette and liquor producers and importers would be allowed to conduct … [Read more...] about E-stamp labeling on tobacco and alcohol products to be mandatory from next year
Portrait by late Vietnamese painter sold for record 3.1 million USD
The painting " Portrait de Mademoiselle Phuong " (Photo: www.sggp.org.vn) Hanoi (VNA) - An oil painting on canvas entitled Portrait de Mademoiselle Phuong (Portrait of Mademoiselle Phuong) by late painter Mai Trung Thu has sold at an auction for the highest price paid for Vietnamese art . Offered in the auction Beyond Legends: Modern Art Evening Sale of Sotheby's Hong Kong, the painting was sold for a record price of 3.1 million USD on April 18. With a guide price of 500,000 USD, the price of the painting eventually reached 2.573 million USD. After taxes and fees were added, the price totalled 3.1 million USD. This is more than double the previous highest valued auction sale which the painting Khoa Than (Nude) by Le Pho, which sold for 1.4 million USD. Portrait of Mademoiselle Phuong was painted by Mai Trung Thu (1906-1980) in 1930, when he was an art teacher at Lycée Français de Hue (a French High School in Hue). Mai Trung Thu is pictured in 1964 … [Read more...] about Portrait by late Vietnamese painter sold for record 3.1 million USD
Local e-commerce market to be valued at US$52 billion by 2025
The figures were released on April 20 by the Vietnam E-Commerce Association (VECOM) at the Vietnam Online Business Forum (VOBF) 2021 taking place in Hanoi. The 2016 to 2019 period witnessed strong development of the local e-commerce market, obtaining an annual growth rate of approximately 30%, according to a report compiled by Google, Temasek, and Bain&Company. In spite of the low starting point of just over US$4 billion in market value in 2015, the size of the Vietnamese e-commerce market had grown to US$11.5 billion by 2019 and US$15 billion last year. Nguyen Binh Minh, member of the VECOM’s Executive Board, said the majority of e-commerce activities in the country take place in the two largest cities, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Most notably, the domestic e-commerce scene enjoyed robust growth following the emergence of coronavirus outbreaks, he said. Trinh Khac Toan, representative of Amazon Global Selling Vietnam, noted that the scale of e-commerce retailing (B2C) is … [Read more...] about Local e-commerce market to be valued at US$52 billion by 2025