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Paper sector guarantees to sufficient supplies
The country's paper sector has pledged sufficient supplies of printing, writing and newspaper papers for the domestic demands, so a "fever" due to a paper shortage will not happen.
The affirmation was made at a meeting on July 16 in Hanoi between the Vietnam Paper Association, the Vietnam Paper Corporation and the Tan Mai Paper Joint Stock Company.
As proposed by the Vietnam Paper Association, the Vietnam Paper Corporation and the Tan Mai Paper Joint Stock Company have pledged to do all they can to increase production to meet domestic demands for paper products, including papers for the upcoming new school year.
Specifically, the Vietnam Paper Corporation is committed to supplying 70,000 tonnes of printing and writing papers and the Tan Mai Paper Joint Stock Company supplies 42,000 tonnes of paper for newspaper prints and 25,000 other tonnes of printing and writing papers in the second half of this year.
The Vietnam Paper Association has also called on books and newspaper printing and houses and notebook producers to join efforts with the Vietnam Paper Corporation and the Tan Mai Paper JSC to import paper to make up for the domestic paper shortage.
The association has also proposed to the government for an increase in domestic paper prices while committed to maintaining these prices lower than import prices by 10% because the current import paper prices are much higher than the domestic ones.
The association has also proposed to remove the tariff for imports of paper from ASEAN countries, which is currently set at 5% and reduced the VAT for imports of pulp and associated papers from 10% to 5%, and even 0% for paper for newspaper prints.
ND
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