E-customs procedures help boost exports

E-customs procedures, which are much simpler than traditional ones, have attracted 1,111 exporters to fill on-line forms for overseas shipments worth 13,645 million USD over the past six months.

As many as 30 customs units are vanguards in this business, which is expected to expand to remaining units of 10 cities and provinces by the year’s end, the General Customs Office (GCO) reported at a workshop held in Hanoi on July 6.

The GCO added that the e-customs procedures are currently dealing with three major sectors, namely trading, manufacturing and export-oriented industry.

The new model is test-running in the export-processing sector and enterprises of priority.

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