VietNamNet Bridge – Importers and distributors, anticipating
the low market demand, have all said they do not intend to import consumer
goods in big quantity for the Tet sale.
Nguyen Anh Hoa, General Director
of Citimart, an importer and distributor, said Citimart, which has learnt the
lesson from the mid-autumn festival sale season, would only import consumer
goods at a reasonable level just enough to satisfy the domestic demand.
Hoa said the sweets imports would
be the same as the last year’s, which would be sold mostly to those, who buy
give to others as presents. The import volume of these products would not
decrease sharply, because the demand is expected to be firmly high.
Giving gifts to parents,
relatives and bosses is a tradition; therefore, though consumers have to fasten
their belt in the current difficulties, they would still spend money to buy
luxury goods.
However, Hoa said that Citimart
would have to think carefully about what products to import. The products must
be high end goods, but have reasonable prices.
Analysts all have predicted that
the demand for consumer goods would decrease this Tet because of the current
big economic difficulties. Meanwhile, people nowadays do not have the habit of
storing food for Tet days any more, but they tend to spend time traveling on
the holiday. Therefore, it would be a wise move not to order big imports.
“Everything related to the
import, distribution for Tet holiday has been completed. There is no big change
this year in comparison with the previous years,” Hoa said.
According to Nguyen Anh Hong,
General Director of Maximark, which displays big volumes of consumer imports,
after considering the quotations from suppliers, one can see that there would
not be big imports and there would not be many choices for clients.
Hong also said that importers
this year tend to be choosier than they were in the previous years. They would
not strive to import many kinds of products, but would focus on high grade
products sourced from Europe.
She has noted that suppliers have
become more cautious in ordering imports in order to avoid loss.
“They urged us to make orders
very soon, in September and October. They would only import consumer goods
after they are sure that the imports could be sold to retailers,” she said.
Nguyen Muoi, the owner of the
shop specializing in retailing import sweets on Nguyen Thong street in HCM
City, also said that the purchasing power would be low this year, but there
would still be some new kinds of products to attract buyers.
When asked about the retail
prices, distributors have said the prices would increase, but just slightly.
A report by the General Customs
Department showed that consumer goods are not the major group of import items
at this moment, even though the Tet holiday nears.
It was computers, electronic
parts, mobile phones which saw the imports increasing most sharply if compared
with the last month and the same period of the last year.
The import turnover of computers
and computer parts was 1.39 billion dollars in October, up by 16.4 percent over
the previous month. Meanwhile, Vietnam imported 522 million dollars worth of
mobile phones and accessories, an increase of 20 percent over September. The
imports were mainly sourced from China.
Phuoc Ha
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