Officers of HCM City Customs check imported goods. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) -The General Department of Customs has ordered the management of origin andlabels of imported products to be enhanced.
The move comes in thewake of a probe into Khaisilk’s trade fraud of selling"Made-in-China" products under the Vietnamese brand, which caused astir.
Accordingly, customsdepartments across the country must enhance their management of product originand labels following the Government’s Decree 19 on product origin, Decree 43 onlabeling and Ministry of Finance’s Circular 38 on customs managementprocedures.
Special attention mustbe paid to Vietnamese companies’ products that were produced abroad and thenimported into the country.
All violations must bereported to the General Department of Customs.
According to currentregulations, organisations and individuals placing goods in circulation must bein charge of labeling, and the labels must provide clear and accurate productinformation.
The Khaisilk fraud was uncoveredmore than a week ago when a company which bought Khaisilk-branded scarves at aKhaisilk store on Hang Gai shop in Hanoi found one scarf with two tags – onewith “Khaisilk Made in Vietnam” and the other with “Made in China.”
Hoang Khai, chairman ofthe group which is considered a top Vietnamese silk brand, later admitted thatthe scarves were actually imported from China.
On November 4, DeputyPrime Minister Truong Hoa Binh asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade incoordination with relevant ministries to clarify violations of Khaisilk andreport the findings before December 15.
Customs’ statisticsshowed that imports of silk products from China were worth 1.2million USD in the first nine months of this year, while the figures were 2.3million USD in 2016 and 4 million USD in 2015. From 2015 to September2017, Vietnam imported more than 8,800 silk scarvesfrom China, worth some 35,800 USD.
In another development,the Hanoi Department of Taxation recently reported on the tax payments ofKhaisilk’s store on Hang Gai Street.
Accordingly, the store,which is owned by Nguyen Thu Nga and began selling silk products from January2004, earned revenue of 14 billion VND in the January-September period and paidtax of more than 200 million VND for the period.
The company earned 15.6billion VND in 2015 and 16.11 billion VND in 2016 as revenue, and paid taxesworth 234 million VND and 241 million VND, respectively.
The tax department saidthat the store was not in arrears of taxes.
Earlier, the GeneralDepartment of Taxation had asked the municipal tax department to report on theperformance of tax payment of Khaisilk Group and its stores in Hanoi.-VNA
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