Workers process dragon fruits for export in Cho Gao district, Tien Giang province (Photo: VNA) According to Dang Van Tuan, acting director of the Tien Giang Department ofIndustry and Trade, thanks to reasonable management solutions, activelysupporting export enterprises to connect supply and demand and expand markets,the province's export turnover continues to grow stably.
Tuan said in the first nine months of 2022, the province's export turnover ofgoods reached about 3 billion USD, up more than 26.9% over the same period lastyear and reached 89.6% of the target for the whole year; which,foreign-invested enterprises alone accounted for 82.1% of the total exportturnover of the locality.
Tien Giang is aiming to achieve the export turnover of goods for the whole year2022 reaching 3.6 billion USD, up more than 15.9% compared to 2021 andexceeding 7.46% of the 2022 plan, Tuan said.
He said the province continues to promote the implementation of the strategyfor import and export of goods in the 2011-2020 period and orientation to 2030.
At the same time, Tuan said it would strengthen the promotion programmes,dissemination of information on free trade agreements (FTAs) to supportenterprises, especially small and medium enterprises, in exploiting and takingadvantage of incentives, meeting standards and regulations on trade barriers tohelp enterprises proactively develop production plans, export and expandmarkets, find suitable partners.
In particular, the province encouraged businesses to review and selectalternative markets likely to be supplemented when export turnover to theChinese market is reduced due to the COVID-19 pandemic or other objectivereasons.
In addition, his department will update the export situation of goods at bordergates to China, such as Quang Ninh, Lang Son, Cao Bang, and Ha Giang, tosupport exporters on measures to strengthen management to prevent epidemics.
The department also cooperated with the provincial Department of Agricultureand Rural Development to guide farmers, cooperatives and enterprises tounderstand the regulations on technical barriers to reorganising agriculturalproduction according to VietGAP and GlobalGAP criteria to improve thecompetitiveness of agricultural products in the market and expand exportmarkets for goods staples.
He added exports will continue to be the main driving force for the growth of TienGiang province, in which key agricultural products still account for a largeproportion and play an important role in the export structure in the comingtime.
He said the province was aiming to expand the agricultural export market byfully exploiting comparative and competitive advantages, ensuring high growthgoals, contributing to fast and sustainable economic growth when the provincereturns to the new normal, flexibly adapting and effectively controllingepidemics to restore and develop socio-economic, stabilise people's lives in2022 and the following years.
In particular, in expanding export markets, the province will focus on freshand processed agricultural export markets.
To ensure sustainable export growth, Tien Giang continued to innovateinvestment promotion and complete infrastructure to serve businesses bothinside and outside the fence of industrial zones and clusters.
Tuan considered it was important to invite investment in combination with agood application of preferential mechanisms and policies to attract investment,mobilise all capital resources, support enterprises to invest in the business,build and connect raw material areas, train labour supply and market promotionfor product consumption and export.
From 2015 to 2020, the local export growth rate reached 17.14% per year.
Only in the first nine months of 2022, the province attracted 13 moreinvestment projects with a total registered investment capital of over 4.163trillion VND, newly established 676 enterprises, and 5,300 household businesses.
Recently, the provincial People's Committee also held a conference to introduce59 priority projects, inviting investment from domestic and foreign enterpriseswith a total investment capital of nearly 23 trillion VND./.
VNA
