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| Ukraine is proposing to export poultry products, eggs, milk, poultry egg products, pork and by-products to Vietnam. (Source: Agriculture Newspaper) |
Ukraine wants to sell pork, eggs, milk to Vietnam
The information was given at an online meeting between Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien and Deputy Minister of Agricultural and Food Policy of Ukraine Markiyan Dmytrasevich on the afternoon of November 23.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien informed that this is the first meeting after the Covid-19 pandemic for the two countries to sit down and discuss promoting bilateral cooperation in the agricultural sector.
According to Mr. Phung Duc Tien, Ukraine is proposing to export poultry products, eggs, milk, poultry egg products, pork and by-products to Vietnam.
In the opposite direction, Vietnam wishes to export seafood, processed pork, processed poultry, poultry eggs of all kinds (fresh, live, processed), and honey to Ukraine.
Market development is an important task in promoting agricultural products, in which Ukraine is one of Vietnam's important markets.
Currently, Vietnam's traditional and strong export groups to the Ukrainian market include seafood, coffee, pepper, cashews, textiles, etc. In contrast, Ukraine's main exports to Vietnam include chemicals, fertilizers, corn, and wheat.
Agricultural, forestry and fishery trade accounts for about 20% of the total trade between Vietnam and Ukraine. Accordingly, the total import and export value of agricultural products in 2021 was 153 million USD, accounting for about 19% of the total import and export turnover.
On the Ukrainian side, Deputy Minister Markiyan Dmytrasevich hopes to promote agricultural cooperation with Vietnam, with both sides exchanging agricultural products of mutual strength.
Mr. Nguyen Van Long - Director of the Department of Animal Health (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) - said that the Department of Animal Health is reviewing the application for registration of the export of poultry meat and poultry by-products from Ukraine after completing the assessment of the risk of importing pork/pork products and egg products.
Regarding pork and pork products, the Department of Animal Health has received a request for additional information to assess import risks.
The Department of Animal Health will review the documents and respond in writing. Regarding egg products, the Department of Animal Health has requested Ukraine to provide additional information to assess the import risk, but has not yet received a response.
Responding to the opinion of the Department of Animal Health, Director of the Department of International Cooperation, Trade and Information, Consumer Protection (SSUFSCP) - Ms. Yulia Kostynska, wished to know more information to promote pork products in the Vietnamese market.
Along with the request to export poultry, eggs, milk and poultry egg products, pork and by-products to Vietnam, according to the representative of the Plant Protection Department (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development), the Department received a request to open the market for blueberries and apples last July. The Plant Protection Department will send technical units to conduct pest risk analysis (PRA) for the above items according to regulations.
On the other hand, Mr. Le Ba Anh - Deputy Director of the Department of Quality, Processing and Market Development (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) - said that the Ukrainian authority has just allowed 36 seafood enterprises, of which 10 enterprises are allowed to process and export pangasius to this market.
The Department of Quality, Processing and Market Development has sent many documents to the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection of Ukraine (SSUFSCP) requesting to add the facility to the list of enterprises permitted to export to Ukraine but has not received any response.
According to Mr. Le Ba Anh, although Ukraine is now a full member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the country's competent authorities still apply a number of food safety control measures for imported foods that are not in accordance with international practices, such as the index applied to imported products on food safety that is not in accordance with international practices.
The procedures for inspecting and recognizing enterprises on the List of enterprises permitted to process and export seafood are not consistent with international practices and the CODEX Committee's guidelines on inspection, assessment, and recognition of equivalence in food safety control systems between countries.
Import and export approaching 600 billion USD mark, record trade surplus
According to the General Department of Customs, in the first half of November, the country's import-export turnover reached nearly 30 billion USD.
Of which, the country's export turnover reached 14.65 billion USD. There were 4 export groups with turnover of 1 billion USD or more in the first half of this month, including: Computers, electronic products and components reached 2.42 billion USD; phones and components reached 2.1 billion USD; machinery, equipment, tools and spare parts reached 1.83 billion USD; textiles and garments reached 1.29 billion USD...
In total, from the beginning of the year to November 15, the country's export turnover reached more than 306 billion USD.
On the other hand, in the first half of November, import turnover reached 14.77 billion USD. There were 2 groups of goods reaching a "billion dollar" turnover: Computers, electronic products and components reached nearly 4.3 billion USD; machinery, equipment, tools and spare parts reached 1.84 billion USD.
Accumulated from the beginning of the year to November 15, the country's import turnover reached 281.62 billion USD.
Thus, from the beginning of the year to November 15, the total import-export turnover of the whole country reached 587.62 billion USD.
In the first half of November, trade turnover had a deficit of more than 100 million USD, but from the beginning of the year to November 15, our country still had a trade surplus of 24.38 billion USD.
According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, one of the positive points in import-export activities in recent times is that the import turnover of raw materials for export production continues to increase. In particular, the group of raw materials for production still accounts for a large proportion of the total import turnover of goods nationwide. Imported goods focus on items such as: Computers, electronic products and components; machinery, equipment, tools, spare parts; fabrics of all kinds; steel of all kinds; gasoline of all kinds...
The Ministry of Industry and Trade also noted that currently, green transformation and sustainable development are inevitable trends for Vietnamese enterprises because major export markets, including the EU, always have high and strict requirements on environmental standards.
Therefore, for Vietnamese export enterprises, in addition to paying attention to export growth rate, transforming production structure, and investing in infrastructure, not only requires large financial and human resources, but also requires experience and skills to successfully apply and comply with international regulations and standards. From there, maintaining sustainable export growth.
Regarding the prospect of import and export of goods from now until the end of the year, statistics from the General Department of Customs show that from July until now, goods export has reached more than 30 billion USD/month and in the last 4 months, the total turnover has reached 125.76 billion USD, equivalent to an average of 31.44 billion USD/month.
The average figure achieved in the last 4 months is much higher than the average of 27.61 billion USD/month in the first 6 months of 2023.
Not only helping to shorten the decline compared to the same period last year, recent positive signals help us expect export activities in 2023 to reach the target of more than 350 billion USD.
Although the above result is not equal to the record of more than 371 billion USD in 2022, it is very remarkable in the context that during the first months of 2023, the country's import-export activities faced many challenges and declined sharply.
Vietnamese textiles and garments reach 104 global markets
Sharing at the press conference of the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (Vitas) 2023 Summary Conference on November 23, Vitas leaders said: "Impacted by the global economic downturn, reduced demand for goods in major markets and the overbuying situation of the previous year caused exports for the whole year of 2023 to decrease significantly.
According to statistics up to the end of October 2023, the total textile and garment industry's export reached about 33 billion USD, and the whole year is expected to reach about 40.3 billion USD, down 9.2% compared to the previous year.
In this year's not-so-bright picture, the industry's notable highlights are its breakthrough in markets and diversification of export products.
Mr. Vu Duc Giang, Chairman of Vitas, said: “Never before has Vietnam exported textiles and garments to as many markets as this year, to 104 countries and territories, of which the US is still Vietnam's largest garment export market, with exports to this market reaching over 11 billion USD by the end of the first 9 months, followed by Japan with 3 billion USD, South Korea with 2.43 billion USD, and the EU with nearly 2.9 billion USD.
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| Efforts to diversify markets and export products have helped the textile and garment industry gradually overcome difficulties. (Source: Vitas) |
Next is Canada with about 850 million USD, China with 830 million USD, Cambodia with 612 million USD, UK with 503 million USD, Australia with 351 million USD, Russia with 283 million USD, Indonesia with 279 million USD, Thailand and Hong Kong (China) markets with more than 200 million USD...
Textile and garment enterprises have exported 36 types of products around the world, of which jackets are still the main export item with 4.385 billion USD, clothes of all kinds 3.853 billion USD, T-shirts 3.85 billion USD, shirts 1.879 billion USD, children's clothes 1.7 billion USD, fabrics of all kinds 1.7 billion USD...
"It is the efforts to diversify markets and export products that have helped the textile and garment industry gradually overcome difficulties," said the leader of Vitas.
In 2024, the market is expected to face many difficulties, but the textile and garment industry still targets 10% growth, with an expected export turnover of 44 billion USD. A positive signal is that export orders in the fourth quarter have improved, expected to remain stable for the whole year of 2024.
To achieve this goal, the textile industry continues to diversify export markets, develop sustainably while adapting to the global market's requirements for greening, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, investing in digital governance, controlling adaptation to the global textile industry, implementing technology and automation in some production lines to adapt to fast delivery, small product codes and high quality.
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