Ministry of Finance requests Ministry of Public Security to verify information on violations in rice export

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The rice export has been implemented by the General Department of Customs based on the principle of quota management. Photo: internet.

Indicators set as soon as receiving the Decision on quota management of the Ministry of Industry and Trade

In the official letter, the Ministry of Finance states that recently, a lot of information on mass media, social networks and some businesses reflected on rice export activities in the context of ensuring food security amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Speaking about rice exports, the Ministry of Finance says: On April 10, 2020, the Minister of Industry and Trade issued Decision No. 1106 / QD-TCT announcing rice export quotas in April 2020.

In this Decision there are some principles for quota management. Specifically, traders who register for a previous customs declaration will be deducted from the previous export quota. The quantity declared on the registered customs declaration will be subtracted from the permitted export amount in April 2020.

if the customs declarations are invalid for customs clearance or the actual export quantity is less than the quantity declared in the customs declaration, the difference shall be added to the permitted export amount in April 2020.

The declarations are valid for customs clearance until the total declared export quantity reaches 400,000tonnes (customs declarations with a quantity in excess of 400,000 tonnes are no longer valid for customs clearance).

If the customs declarations are no longer valid for customs clearance or the actual export quantity is less than the quantity declared, the difference shall be added to the permitted export amount in April 2020.

Based on the principle of quota management, the General Department of Customs has set up information indicators on Vietnam Automated Cargo and Port Consolidated System and Vietnam Customs Intelligence Information System to automatically monitor and subtract the rice quantity within the permittedexport quota. This has been applied from April 12, 2020.The above decision of the Ministry of Industry and Trade takes effect from 0:00 on April 11, 2020 but at this time, the General Department of Customs has not received the official version from this Ministry, until 9:30am April 11, 2020, the General Department of Customs received the copy. On April 13, 2020, the General Department of Customs received the official version.

The subtraction will be automatically performed by the systems as soon as the customs declarant sends information of the customs declaration to the system according to the principle of pre-registered customs declaration which will be deducted from the previous export quota and the system will automatically stop receiving information on registration of customs declarations if the registered quantity reaches the export quota, without the intervention of customs officers.

Suspected violations of rice export needs verifying

The Ministry of Finance also cited some statistics from the system of the General Department of Customs.

From 0.00 to 6.15 am on April 12, 2020, 38 enterprises registered 519 rice export declarations with an amount of 399,989.43 tonnes.

At this time, the rice export quota was only 10.57 tonnes, so enterprises that continued to register for rice export declarations with amount higher than 10.57 tonnes were not accepted by the system.

After the aforementioned time, two enterprises that registered two declarations with the amount less than 10.57 tonneswere received by the system. They were nine tones at 3.10pm and 1.2 tonnes at 7.34pm.

In the official letter sent to the Minister of Public Security, the Ministry of Finance said that currently, a number of media and social media as well as some rice exporters have posed many negative questions regarding the organization of rice export activities.

To ensure the objectivity, transparency andunification on information reflected by the press, enterprises and social networks, the Ministry of Finance requested the Minister of Public Security to assign competent agencies to consider and investigate, verify and clarifythe above contents to strictly handle all acts of law violation by organizations and individuals in rice export activities as well as handling responsibilities of organizations and individuals giving misrepresented and false information.

On April 20, the Minister of Finance also issued a written request to the Director of the General Department of Customs to urgently organize inspections and verifications to clarify the contents reflected by the press, social networks and enterprises on the doubts in the intervention of customs officers and customs agencies about the opening of rice export declarations; and strictly handle violations of individuals and organizations according to the provisions of law.

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This inspection and investigation must be reported to the Minister before April 30, 2020.