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PM intervenes in Kien Giang rice case
The Kien Giang Tourism and Trade Company finally got permission to export the 53,500 tonnes of rice after the case was directly reported to the prime minister.
Truong Quoc Tuan, Secretary of the Kien Giang provincial Party Committee, said on April 16 in the afternoon that he had reported the case of the Kien Giang Tourism and Trade Company to Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
The prime minister then immediately called Truong Thanh Phong, Chairman of the Vietnam Food Association, requesting the association allow the Kien Giang Tourism and Trade Company to export the 53,500 tonnes of rice under the contract it signed before with the foreign partners.
Late yesterday, April 16, the Vietnam Food Association released a document, allowing the Kien Giang Tourism and Trade Company to export all the 53,500 tonnes of rice.
Prior to that, the Vietnam Food Association asked the Kien Giang Tourism and Trade Company to stop the export of 53,500 tonnes of rice while the company was completing formalities for the export of the rice.
The Vietnam Food Association on February 20, 2009 released a notice that as of February 21, 2009, the association only accepts registrations for rice export contracts with deliveries from July 2009 to September 2009.
The problem lies in the fact that the company signed the export contracts before the notice was released.
The volume of rice will be exported to Africa and East Timor. The foreign partners have opened letters of credit and their ships have been docked for many days at the ports in HCM City and An Giang province to get the deliveries.
The case was reported directly to the prime minister after the company made every effort to export the rice, but failed to get permission.
VietNamNet, tp
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