That was the affirmation of Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Hoang Trung when talking to Thanh Nien on the evening of September 10 regarding the information that some businesses reported that they "unexpectedly" received a notice requesting to temporarily stop exporting shipments of durian, dragon fruit... to the Chinese market.
Many shipments of durian exported to China were found to contain aphids, which are subject to Chinese quarantine.
Mr. Hoang Trung affirmed that businesses saying they "unexpectedly" received notice from the plant quarantine agency to temporarily stop exploiting the codes of growing areas and packaging facilities for export to China is incorrect and not objective.
On August 24, in Lang Son, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development chaired a conference on the management of codes for growing areas and agricultural product packaging facilities for export. The conference was attended by representatives of leaders, departments of agriculture and rural development of southern provinces and many businesses exporting to China.
At this conference, the leaders of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development clearly stated that they would propose to temporarily suspend exports for a number of growing area codes and packaging facilities that violated plant quarantine regulations according to the announcement from the General Administration of Customs of China.
According to Deputy Minister Hoang Trung, the temporary suspension of exploitation of these codes requires businesses and local management agencies to clarify the cause and solutions, and when completed, exports will resume.
Recently, the Plant Protection Department has sent an official written notice to localities and businesses to be informed and strictly implemented.
"We proactively apply this measure to tighten the management of agricultural product quality in the Chinese market, as this is a large and very important market. If China continues to detect more imported shipments from Vietnam with violations like in the past, there is a very high risk that they will apply measures to temporarily suspend or ban imports, greatly affecting many agricultural products being exported to China," said Mr. Trung.
According to information from the Plant Protection Department, recently, this unit has sent a document to localities requesting to temporarily suspend the export of 74 growing area codes and requesting to revoke 47 packaging facility codes that violated plant quarantine regulations according to the announcement from the General Administration of Customs of China.
The Plant Protection Department requested that the units that own the violating codes must take measures to clarify the cause and find solutions to prevent the violations from recurring. Among them are many codes for growing areas of durian, dragon fruit, bananas, etc., which are all major Vietnamese fruit exports to the Chinese market.
According to statistics from the Plant Protection Department, in the first 7 months of the year, countries importing agricultural products from Vietnam have detected and warned 370 shipments (bananas, mangoes, dragon fruits, jackfruit, durians, etc.) in 13 provinces and cities in the southern region that violated plant quarantine. In particular, the main announcements were from the General Administration of Customs of China about many shipments of durian, dragon fruits, bananas, etc. exported that were found to contain harmful microorganisms that are subject to quarantine by China.
Sharing with Thanh Nien , Mr. Hoang Khanh Duy, Deputy Head of the Management Board of Dong Dang - Lang Son Economic Zone (Lang Son province), confirmed that recently during the inspection process, when cases of harmful organisms on goods were discovered, the Chinese side handled them very severely.
"Normally, they will require the entire shipment to return to Vietnam, and then may even decide to stop importing this item for a long time, as happened with Vietnamese chili peppers," said Mr. Duy.
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