VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s exports to China across the
border gates have dropped sharply since March, 2012. Meanwhile, the situation
is believed to last to the end of October at least.
The border gate in Mong Cai
district of Quang Ninh province has been closed for the last month, thus making
the cross-border goods exchange stagnant.
Vietnamese goods owners said the
Chinese authorities have sent thousands of officers to the new inspection
stations installed along the border line. This is for the first time in the
last many years China prohibits goods to go across the border. In the past, the
bans were applied several times, but goods still go through the border at some
certain hours of the day.
At the border gates and the
customs clearance points, very few goods were seen loaded to the ships on
August 9 and 10. Meanwhile, there was nearly no container vehicle in
circulation on the same days on the Highway No. 18.
According to the Mong Cai City
People’s Committee, by August 9, 3800 containers of goods of different kinds,
including 1314 cold containers, had got stuck at the border gate.
An enterprise specializing in
importing goods temporarily for re-export later to China reportedly had to ruin
the consignments of frozen food which had got stuck at the border gate for one
month. An executive of the company said the company had no other choice,
because it did not have money to pay for the electricity to keep the products
frozen.
The cross-border import-export
activities have also become quiet since June at Tan Thanh border gate in Lang
Son. The Chinese authorities have strengthened the goods inspection, people and
transport vehicles, and intensified food quarantine. Earlier this year, about
300-400 vehicles carrying goods crossed the border a day. Meanwhile, the figure
dropped to 200 in early August.
As for the Chi Ma border gate in
Lang Son province, Vietnamese goods also have not been exported because the
Chinese authorities have reinforced the control over the temporary imports to
Vietnam for re-export later to China. At present, only some kinds of farm
product, including cassava starch, still have been exported to China.
In Lao Cai province, the rubber
and sugar exports to China have also dropped dramatically due to the new
cross-border trade policies applied by the Chinese side.
The Vietnam Ministry of Industry
and Trade has affirmed that the slowdown in the export of goods to China should
not be attributed to the Vietnamese side. The relevant agencies at the border
provinces have always been creating most favorable conditions for enterprises
to make trade, while Vietnamese enterprises have been completely capable to
clear the goods.
The ministry has affirmed that
Vietnamese exports to China have been decreasing significantly in both the
volume and turnover.
In the first seven months of the
year, the exports going through the Mong Cai border gate reached 2.607 billion
dollars, just equal to 79 percent of that of the same period of the last year.
The reason behind the exports
slowdown is the reinforcement of the supervision, anti-smuggling and quarantine
activities. One or two such campaigns are carried out by the Chinese side every
year, each of which lasts one or two months.
However, the latest campaign has
been lasting four months already, and it is believed to last until the 18th
Chinese Communist Party Congress in October finishes.
China only focuses on its
activities to fight against smuggling within its territorial area. Meanwhile,
there has been no sign of Chinese changing its trade policy with Vietnam.
Compiled by Mai Chi
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