Despite impacts from the complicated developments in the region and the world, Hoa Binh saw good signals in import-export activities in the first half of 2024.
Leaders of the Hoa Binh Department of Industry and Trade and delegates attend a ceremony to send Bat Bao Minh Trung lotus porridge products to the Czech Republic.
In the first half of this year, Hoa Binh’s export revenue hit 969.6 million USD, a surge of 26.48% year on year, while imports reached 685.51 million USD, up 17.93% over the same period last year.
Of the total, exports of electronics products reached 443.45 million USD, accounting for 45.74%, while that of the textile sector was 317.19 million USD, the metal group 23.930 million USD, the agricultural group 7.878 million USD, and the other goods group 177.147 million USD.
Currently, Hoa Binh has 66 enterprises engaging in import-export activities of five major goods groups - electronic components (17), textile and garment (21), metals (2), agriculture (9), and other goods group (17).
In addition to traditional products such as electronic components and textiles, Hoa Binh has successfully expanded the export of typical agricultural products to foreign markets such as sugarcane and Dien grapefruit, red-flesh pomelo to the US, the UK and the EU; Bat Bao Minh Trung lotus porridge to Japan and the Czech Republic; Son Thuy longan to the EU; bamboo shoot to Taiwan (China); and Cao Phong orange to the UK, thereby opening up many new opportunities for the province's agricultural products.
The results were attributed to the province and local firms’ efforts to improve designs, increase product quality, and take advantage of opportunities brought about by integration, especially new generation free trade agreements (FTAs), to promote exports.
In the first six months of this year, the provincial Party Committee, People’s Committee, and local enterprises actively engaged in many international trade promotion events in many countries, thus establishing partnership with foreign partners and expanding export markets.
At the same time, the locality has worked to simplify administrative procedures, reducing time and cost for exporters, while improving its business environment, and making investment in upgrading the transport and logistics infrastructure system.
In order to maintain and promote the growth pace in the rest of the year, the province’s industry and trade sector will concentrate on consulting local authorities on grasping the import-export activities of local firms, removing difficulties and obstacles facing them during exporting and business process, and supporting in expanding and diversifying markets and taking advantages of FTAs, especially the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), Vietnam-EU FTA (EVFTA), and Vietnam-UK FTA (EKVFTA).
At the same time, the sector will introduce a handbook on origin regulations in the EVFTA applicable to exports of Hoa Binh province and update local firms with information and emerging issues relating to the FTAs that Vietnam is joining.
After more than four years of implementing a project launched by the Hoa Binh Party Committee’s Standing Board on developing agriculture and promoting product consumption linked with building new-style rural areas for the 2021-2025 period, the province’s industry and trade sector has made significant strides, greatly contributing to local socio-economic development.
Luong Son district has identified 2025 as the year for the accelerated breakthrough to successfully implement the socio-economic development plan for the 5-year period from 2021 to 2025. The district has been focusing on executing the plans and trying to achieve a GRDP growth rate of approximately 15%.
Since the beginning of this year, under the direction of the Department of Agriculture and Environment, the Sub-Department of Agricultural, Forestry, and Fishery Product Quality Management has strengthened the integration of the professional activities to promote and guide the organizations and individuals in the production and trading of agricultural, forestry, and fishery products to comply with the legal regulations regarding the use of chemicals, pesticides and veterinary medicines in crop cultivation, livestock farming and aquaculture. They also provide guidance to processing and manufacturing establishments on keeping the records to trace the product origins and using food additives from the approved list according to the regulations.
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