Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh has asked relevant ministries and agencies to take solutions to push ahead with national and ASEAN one-stop-shop mechanisms.
Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister PhamBinh Minh has asked relevant ministries and agencies to take solutions to pushahead with national and ASEAN one-stop-shop mechanisms.
He also ordered reforming inspections over exports andimports, and facilitating trade activities from now to the year-end.
As of June 30, the national one-stop-shop mechanismhad connected 226 administrative procedures of 13 ministries and agencies.
Inthe closing months of 2020 and the first half of this year, the Ministry ofFinance coordinated with other ministries and agencies to officially launch themodel, with 26 administrative procedures.
Vietnam has joined the ASEAN one-stop-shop model toexchange the CO (certificate of origin) e-Form D with other members of thegrouping.
As of June 30, Vietnam had received a total of 375,646 certificates from ASEANmember countries, while sending 955,300 others to them.
Apart from ASEAN, Vietnam has also exchanged CO withthe Republic of Korea (RoK) and New Zealand, and negotiated with the EurasianEconomic Union (EAEU) for the exchange.
Such agencies as the Ministry of Industry and Trade, theMinistry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Information andCommunications and the Ministry of Public Security have shifted to post-customsclearance inspections.
Pointing out burdensome tasks in this regard from nowto the end of this year, Minh asked the Ministry of Finance to urge otherministries and agencies to complete their tasks in line with the Prime Minister’sdecisions on an action plan to boost the national and ASEAN one-stop-shop mechanisms,reform inspections over exports and imports, and facilitate trade activities forthe 2018-2020 period.
Joint efforts are needed to speed up the building andimplementation of the master plan on building and developing an IT system inservice of the mechanisms, he said, noting that the document should be submittedto the PM in the first quarter of 2022.
Minh also ordered devising a plan of action to rollout the national one-stop-shop model, foster logistics and create optimal conditionsfor trading for 2021-2025, and sending it to concerned agencies./.
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Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh (Photo: VNA) 
