More than 100 import-export enterprises through the secondary border gate and opening of Nghe An - Laos

(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of June 23, under the chairmanship of comrade Le Xuan Dai - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, the Provincial People's Committee worked with an interdisciplinary working group led by the Import-Export Department - Ministry of Industry and Trade on the situation of import-export activities through secondary border gates and border openings in Nghe An.

Overview of the working session

Nghe An currently shares 419 km of border with the three provinces of Bolykhamxay, Xieng Khouang, and Hua Phan of Laos with a system of 4 secondary border gates and 15 border crossings. Over the years, the system of secondary border gates and crossings has facilitated the purchase and exchange of goods, contributing to increasing the province's import and export turnover.

Comrade Tran Thanh Hai - Deputy Director of the Import-Export Department, Ministry of Industry and Trade spoke, requesting the province to strengthen facilities and construct construction items at secondary border gates and openings.

In 2015 and the first 6 months of 2016, the exchange of goods between the two countries took place smoothly with over 103 enterprises participating in import-export activities between Nghe An and Laos, which have been effective. The goods that account for a large proportion through the secondary border gate are mainly wood, wood products, agricultural products, gypsum, etc.

Implementing Decision No. 52/2015/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister and Circular No. 52/2015/TT-BCT of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Nghe An Provincial People's Committee has fully implemented and ensured the registration process for cross-border goods trading. Up to now, a list of 61 traders has been announced to conduct cross-border goods trading activities through secondary border gates and border openings.

However, import and export of goods and customs clearance procedures are only carried out at 4 secondary border gates: Thanh Thuy-Thanh Chuong; Thong Thu-Que Phong; Tam Hop-Tuong Duong; Cao Veu-Anh Son and 4 openings: Buoc Mu, Keng Du, My Ly, Tha Do in Ky Son district.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Xuan Dai spoke, requesting the Government and the Ministry of Industry and Trade to allow the province to import and export more items: Construction materials; agricultural products (corn); Bamboo, rattan, linden, consumer goods, electrical equipment, raw plastics and textile and garment materials.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Xuan Dai proposed that the Government and the Ministry of Industry and Trade agree to allow the Nghe An Provincial People's Committee to continue implementing import and export activities of goods approved by the Ministry of Industry and Trade through secondary border gates and border openings while the locality invests, constructs and completes construction items according to regulations.

Lao corn is imported to Nghe An through a secondary border gate and opening.

Nghe An Provincial People's Committee is responsible for directing relevant agencies to arrange sufficient human resources to ensure import and export activities; closely monitor the process of transporting imported goods from the border deep into the inland and exported goods from the inland across the border, and promptly build and complete the infrastructure of secondary border gates and openings as soon as possible.

Thu Huyen