More products are limited to import

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has issued decision No.1380 listing groups of goods which are not encouraged to import. 

They are meat, fish, milk, fruits and vegetables, alcohol, beer, automobiles, mobile phones, laptops, tobacco materials.

The MoIT’s statistics showed that in the first two months of 2011, imports of these products reached nearly US$1.1 billion, an increase of 24.8 percent over last year’s same period.

Other products that also need import control such as steel, precious gems and metals increased by 27.7 percent to US$950 million.

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