2014-08-16

Vietnam urged to squeeze opportunities when fasten AEC

Vietnam’s membership in a ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) offers new opportunities for businesses to humour advantages from trade liberalisation, pronounced Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Cam Tu during a convention in Danang on Aug 14.

However, Vietnam will be confronting extreme foe from informal rivals in terms of consumer goods, services and investment attraction, while low-cost prolongation will be no longer Vietnam’s rival advantage, Tu warned.

During a seminar, experts resolved that when a AEC is determined in 2015, ASEAN will spin a singular marketplace nonetheless tariffs, non-tariff barriers will be private gradually, and a village will be some-more energetic and competitive.

Tu pronounced Vietnamese businesses should be means to boost exports in many fitting areas such as wiring and components, means of transport, apparatus and machine and steel after a AEC is realised.

He sum trade businesses that have met a marketplace approach will have incomparable opportunities for stronger growth. In addition, deeper formation in a margin of trade, use and investment will open adult prospects for mercantile development.

To do a tasks, there should be active co-ordination between supervision agencies and businesses, Tu stressed.

Ministry of Industry and Trade leaders also warned Vietnamese businesses need to refurbish information, urge ability and build new policies to mount organisation in a rarely rival environment.

Southern shred to captivate unfamiliar investors

Each operation contingency conclude their rival advantages and mercantile intensity to support a supervision in a foreign-investment decision-making, listened a convention reason in Can Tho on Aug 14.

The southern shred has a biggest mercantile suit and largest extend to a State budget. It is required to know a intensity enlargement of any province, Do Nhat Hoang, conduct of a Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign Investment Agency said.

He was vocalization during a Foreign Investment Conference, attracting member of 21 southern provinces’ Planning and Investment Departments, Investment Promotion Centres, Economic Zones, and Industrial and Processing Parks.

As a Mekong Delta has high intensity in agriculture, seafood and fruit trees, any operation should give minute information about a kinds of seafood or fruit it can lift or grow best, he said.

“From such details, a Foreign Investment Department will deliver and entice a correct unfamiliar investors,” he added.

At present, a dialect is perplexing to beam unfamiliar investment into suitable industries in sequence to safeguard peculiarity and effectiveness.

At a conference, solutions to support enterprises in traffic with mercantile problems and attracting some-more unfamiliar investment were discussed.

Another subject endangered discipline for sourroundings adult new investment graduation programme formed on new Government new preference (No 03) associated to State supervision and investment promotion.

Since early this year to mid-July, 889 FDI projects have perceived investment licences with purebred element of US$6.8 billion. Another 300 projects have stretched their element with some-more US$2.6 billion.

New and stretched element accounted for 80% of investment compared with a same generation final year.

The Foreign Investment Agency targets US$20 billion in unfamiliar investment for a year.

According to statistics from a department, there are around 16,800 unfamiliar invested projects — with sum purebred element of US$242.2 billion and disbursed element of US$118 billion – handling in Vietnam.

The prolongation attention comprises 54% while genuine estate is 20.6% and agriculture-forestry-marine is 1.4%.

Japan, a Republic of Korea (RoK), Singapore and Taiwan are a tip 4 investors in Vietnam.

Good signs for trade exports

A collect adult in a gait of trade orders from Japan and China have flooded a Vietnamese marketplace recently, formulating an eventuality for a attention to grasp a trade turnover aim of US$1.6 billion this year.

Do Kim Lang, emissary conduct of a Trade Promotion Agency underneath a Ministry of Industry and Trade, pronounced that a liquid of trade orders to Vietnam are attributed to a impact of China’s smallest salary boost program, heading to a arise in prolongation costs.

In addition, prolonged time smoothness and tough mandate of orders forced importers from Australia and Japan to leave China and eye Vietnam, Lang said.

Le Ba Ngoc, ubiquitous secretary of a Vietnam Handicraft Exporting Association (Vietcraft) in spin pronounced that in fact, importers have placed augmenting trust in a peculiarity of Vietnamese handicrafts.

In new years, inner businesses comparison high-end and mid-end marketplace segments to digest investment strategies and whet competitiveness to urge product peculiarity and foster Vietnamese handicrafts to a world.

The US, EU and Japan sojourn Vietnam’s normal markets, creation a vital suit out of a sector’s sum trade turnover. Local businesses are now seeking to wholly daub rising markets in a BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa).

Within a BRICS bloc, Vietnam exports timber products value some US$100 million to a Chinese marketplace any year.

Ngoc warned that small-scale businesses are approaching to humour waste if investing in low-cost products. Therefore, to boost trade turnover, he suggested they should concentration on a mid-end marketplace shred in suitability with prolongation capacity, operative skills and element sources.

Vietnam-UK trade volume during record highs

Two-way trade between Vietnam and a UK has collected steam after a generation of stagnation, attack some-more than US$2.13 billion in a initial 6 months of a year.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) reports that pivotal Vietnamese exports were mantle and textiles (US$246 million), shoes (US$265 million), mobile phones and gangling tools (US$670 million) and timber products (US$134 million).

The country’s principal imports were machine and gangling tools (US$110 million) and pharmaceuticals (US$60 million).

However, a Vietnamese trade bureau in a UK pronounced Vietnamese products find it formidable to enter this marketplace due to disparities in enlargement levels and business culture.

The UK marketplace has a close placement network, forcing businesses to spend some-more time exploring and perspicacious it, pronounced a office.

In addition, it said, Vietnamese exports to a UK are confronting high competitiveness from India, China and Brazil, as good as other countries in Europe.

To boost their marketplace share in a UK, experts suggested Vietnamese businesses should investigate a marketplace and arise correct strategies, use e-commerce services, and contend good business family along with stairs to boost product quality.

Thai products marketed in Hanoi

More than 150 Thai heading businesses are showcasing their products during a satisfactory in Hanoi in an bid to serve dig a Vietnamese market.

As many as 180 pavilions during a Thai Retail Fair 2014 deliver food, drinks, fruits, domicile utensils, panoply and textiles, jewellery, electronics, cosmetics, automobiles, decorations, souvenirs, and aviation equipment.

Addressing a opening rite on Aug 14, Thai envoy to Vietnam Panyarak Poolthup endorsed that a four-day satisfactory has non-stop adult copiousness of eventuality for businesses of both nations to boost import-export turnover.

Thailand and Vietnam essay to boost their trade value by 20% annually, aiming to sum US$15 billion in value by 2020, he said.

Ta Hoang Linh, emissary conduct of a Trade Promotion Agency underneath a Ministry of Industry and Trade pronounced that over a past years, Vietnam-Thai trade ties have augmenting impressively.

Two-way trade turnover reached over US$1 billion in 2000 for a initial time and amounted to US$9.4 billion in 2013. In a initial 4 months of a year, shared trade was US$3 billion.

Vietnam is now Thailand’s second largest trade partner in ASEAN and a ninth biggest trade partner in a world.

Time for Vietnam to confederate substantially

Vietnam should commence stronger mercantile restructuring measures, targeting a some-more extensive and pure effort, permitting for some-more effective allocation of resources, according to Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Quoc Khanh.

In terms of multilateral relations, Vietnam has spin an executive member of a World Trade Organisation (WTO) given 2007 after some-more than 11 years of negotiations.

In a region, Vietnam became a full member of ASEAN and afterwards a ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) in a 90s. Together with ASEAN, Vietnam has participated in giveaway trade agreements between ASEAN and China, India, a Republic of Korea, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

On shared relations, Vietnam has sealed a array of critical agreements,  including a shared trade agreement with a US and an mercantile partnership agreement with Japan, and actively negotiated other FTAs with a EU and a Customs Union.

International mercantile formation milestones have helped lift Vietnam’s informal and ubiquitous status. Economic formation during opposite levels demonstrates Vietnam’s good efforts in rapacious new opportunities, however, it poses outrageous hurdles to a country.

Simultaneously opening trade doorway for many partners will emanate high vigour on foe and obligatory needs for authorised complement remodel and fasten enforcement.

The FTA with a EU and a Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) are new multilateral agreements with aloft liberalisation. When fasten these agreements, Vietnam needs to give stronger commitments to normal fields- products and services and non-traditional fields like labour, a environment, and e-commerce.

Deputy Minister Khanh says to successfully confederate into a tellurian economy, Vietnam should boost  estimable integration, aiming to restructure a economy and reallocate resources in a some-more effective and pure manner.

Former Trade Minister Truong Dinh Tuyen argues that ubiquitous mercantile formation should go along with domestic remodel underneath that remodel will emanate a grounds for formation and clamp versa formation will assistance boost domestic reform.

Economic reforms and formation should be deliberate as pivotal tasks, Tuyen says adding that remodel should also raise to other amicable fields, generally in a domestic complement given domestic remodel will pave a approach for softened mercantile reform.

Sharing a same view, former WTO Director General Lamy pronounced Vietnam should serve lift a socio-economic standing to confederate sustainably in a new period. In serve to macro reforms, a purpose of businesses contingency be heightened in a subsequent proviso of a mercantile integration, says Nguyen Thu Trang from a Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI).

Under a Prime Minister preference expelled in 2012 on discussion regulation, agencies  involving in ubiquitous trade agreement negotiations have to directly collect proposals from a business village or by VCCI.

However, a business community’s proposals and contributions during ubiquitous negotiations have been   singular so far, Trang says.

Businesses’ appearance in negotiations and a doing of shared and multilateral agreements will be really prolific to Government agencies in negotiations on critical agreements in a nearby future, she notes.

Secutech Vietnam 2014 to flog off in HCM City

The 7th International Security, Fire and Safety Exhibition and Conference (Secutech Vietnam 2014) is set to take place during a Saigon Exhibition Convention Centre(SECC), in Ho Chi Minh City from Aug 20-22.

The event, co-organized by Vietnam Advertisement Fair Exhibition JSC (VIETFAIR) and Messe Frankfurt New Era Business Media Ltd, is approaching to attract 200 booths of companies and businesses from 10 countries and territories including a UK, Australia, Taiwan, HongKong, Singapore, Turkey and Vietnam.

The eventuality will showcase thousands of a latest products and applications in a fields of security, safety, glow prevention, hunt and rescue including video notice system, entry-exit controls, biometrics, electric locks, vehicle glow alarm and penetration showing systems and integrated solutions for a industrial, transport, banking and sell sectors.

Secutech Vietnam offers a good eventuality for businesses to raise operations and deliver their products as good as support Vietnamese businesses entrance a latest technologies.

Localities play pivotal purpose in ubiquitous cooperation

All localities competence spin an appealing finish for unfamiliar businesses, pronounced Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) Chief Representative Atsusuke Kawada during a convention in Hanoi on Aug 13.

Japan, with over 2,000 businesses, is one of a largest unfamiliar investors in Vietnam, Atsusuke said, adding that over 90% of a investment is clever in a incomparable civil and civic areas.

Recently, however, investment has started to bend out into a reduction densely populated and farming areas as evidenced by a construction of prolongation comforts in  Quang Ninh, Thai Binh, Hoa Binh, Nam Dinh and Nghe An.

“Japanese businesses are bullish on expanding investment via Vietnam,” Atsusuke said.

Tomiyuki Kimmura, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Country Director to Vietnam, in spin pronounced provinces wish to attract resources from outside, such as record and materials to arise comprehensively. ADB has charity US$8.3 billion loans to Vietnam and during slightest 25% of that have been implemented by inner administration.

Ho Chi Minh City metropolitan Department of External Affairs Director Nguyen Hong Linh pronounced as a heading mercantile heart of a country, HCM City has actively stretched team-work with many localities during home and abroad, including Japan.

Two-way trade turnover between a city and Japan reached scarcely US$2 billion in a initial 7 months of this year. Japan is also a fifth largest unfamiliar financier in a city with 688 projects.

“The considerable sum denote a critical purpose of ubiquitous team-work in inner socio-economic development,” Linh said.

To iron out snags in attracting investment element during localities, Atsusuke pronounced member from provincial departments should coordinate with applicable agencies to understanding with problems in infrastructure and work forces. In addition, localities should actively foster their strength, inducement policies and distinguished features.

Vietnam is RoK tip shrimp supplier

Vietnamese shrimp exports to a Republic of Korea (RoK) skyrocketed 92.2% given a start of a year, according to a Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (VASEP).

As of a finish of June, a RoK was a fourth largest trade marketplace for Vietnamese shrimp, accounting for 7.7% of a sector’s sum trade value.

In a 6 month period, exports of white-leg shrimp rose 17% while prawn exports declined by 17.9% and other shrimp products saw a middle arise of 1.2%.

The normal cost of Vietnamese shrimp hovered around US$11 per kilo.

According to a latest information from Korean Customs, Vietnam remained a tip retailer of shrimp for a RoK, comprising 44.54% of a country’s imports.

Vietnamese shrimp imports were 3.6 overlay aloft than beside China, a second largest supplier.

Plan to captivate unfamiliar investors

Each operation contingency conclude their rival advantages and mercantile intensity to support a supervision in a foreign-investment decision-making, listened a convention reason in Can Tho yesterday.

“The southern shred has a biggest mercantile suit and largest extend to a State budget. It is required to know a intensity enlargement of any province,” Do Nhat Hoang, conduct of a Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign Investment Agency said.

He spoke during a Foreign Investment Conference with a assemblage of 21 southern provinces’ Planning and Investment Departments, Investment Promotion Centres, Economic Zones, and Industrial and Processing Parks.

He pronounced a Mekong Delta had high intensity in agriculture, seafood and fruit trees. Each operation should give minute information about a kinds of seafood or fruit it can lift or grow best.

“From such details, a Foreign Investment Department will deliver and entice a correct unfamiliar investors,” he added.

At present, a dialect is perplexing to beam unfamiliar investment into suitable industries in sequence to safeguard peculiarity and effectiveness.

“We are perplexing to remodel a investment sourroundings by shortening time and procedures for investment registrations. We will make elementary and accurate procedures, but, of course, will still be means to conduct enterprises,” he said.

At a conference, solutions to support enterprises traffic with mercantile problems and attract some-more unfamiliar investment were discussed.

Another subject endangered discipline for sourroundings adult new investment graduation programme formed on new Government new preference (No 03) associated to State supervision and investment promotion.

Since early of this year to mid-July, 889 FDI projects have perceived investment licences with purebred element of US$6.8 billion. Another 300 projects have stretched their element with some-more $2.6 billion.

New and stretched element accounted for 80 per cent of investment compared with a same generation final year.

The Foreign Investment Agency targets $20 billion in unfamiliar investment for a year.

According to statistics from a department, there are around 16,800 unfamiliar invested projects — with sum purebred element of $242.2 billion and disbursed element of $118 billion – handling in Viet Nam.

The prolongation attention comprises 54 per cent while genuine estate is 20.6 per cent and agriculture-forestry-marine is 1.4 per cent.

Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan are a tip 4 investors in Viet Nam.

Law strengthens offer process

The Revised Bidding Law, that took outcome in July, has ushered in good alleviation in monitoring bids for open projects and rebellious violations, a convention orderly by a Viet Nam International Arbitration Centre (VIAC) listened in HCM City yesterday.

Dr Tran Trinh Tuong, former executive of a Institute of Construction Economics, pronounced a law, that superseded a 2005 Bidding Law, spells out in incomparable fact a routine of selecting contractors.

It requires some-more categories of projects to call for tenders than in a past — like open firms — he said.

It stipulates that winning bids should be formed usually on a full-package contract, that refers to a fixed-price agreement in that a bid contingency also embody probable costs rising from risk factors and escalation of prices during a doing of a contract, he said.

This would stop contractors from creation really inexpensive bids that outcome in bad quality, he said.

Tran Huu Huynh, boss of VIAC, said, “This will also stop a use of creation inexpensive tenders to win a agreement and afterwards negotiating with investors to adjust prices.”

The law stipulates that comment of tenders should be done formed not usually on cost nonetheless also bidders’ technical cunning and experience, he said.

“When looking during bid formula in a past time, we [realise] we generally ran after inexpensive prices. That would be totally wrong underneath a new law.”

Enterprises should learn about a changes to a law to change to their operative methods and equivocate risks, he counselled.

Truong pronounced a law encourages focus of ubiquitous norms for bid applications and contracts.

Soh Lip San, partner during Singapore-based law organisation Rajah Tann LLP, and Chau Quang Huy, a counsel during a firm’s Viet Nam office, pronounced as a building republic Viet Nam needs unfamiliar bidders to take partial in a infrastructure enlargement process.

But given this competence means disputes over contracts given of enlightenment and denunciation differences, removing a agreement good drafted right during a commencement is important, Soh said.

Huynh pronounced Vietnamese settlement centres are efficient adequate to settle disputes, adding that businesses should take their disputes to them to get probity and save cost and time.

Banks still distrustful of corporate credit ratings

Corporate creditworthiness rating is a good height facilitating banks in risk management, non-collateral loans and discerning element disbursement, nonetheless lenders are still distrustful about a grade of clarity in ratings.

Late final month, a State Bank of Viet Nam told credit institutions and rating agencies to urge their ability of assessing creditworthiness of companies so as to boost non-collateral loans. The pierce was done gripping in mind Viet Nam’s 12 per cent credit enlargement in 2014 that is approaching to rest on a second half.

Banks are struggling to boost lending, that is indicated by a low credit enlargement of usually 3.68 per cent in a initial 7 months.

“Lending nonetheless element is a preference done after many good transactions. It is unfit to extend trust loans during initial sight,” Tran Dao Vu, Deputy General Director of DongA Bank told baodautu.vn.

Enterprises competence also advantage a certainty of banks if they softened clarity in their financial reports, Vu said.

It is pronounced that companies ready dual financial reports, a unclothed duplicate for them and a other one discriminating for banks, that they use to while requesting for loans.

Banks pronounced that usually 1 to 2 per cent of enterprises get financial reports audited.

Under stream regulations, usually credit institutions, finance, bonds and word companies, foreign-invested companies and open companies contingency have reports audited. There are usually 1,200 open companies out of 400,000 companies in Viet Nam.

In a conditions where bad debts are mounting, banks are some-more approaching to insist on collateral, preferably in a form of property.

Director of an HCM City-based bank pronounced that some enterprises didn’t have many properties and they would like to set bonds and submit sources as element for bank loans. However, there were risks like product dissemination with this kind of collateral.

From a company’s perspective, a requirement of element by some enterprises has done it formidable to arrange funding.

Pham Van Dung, Director of Hung Dung Honey Company in Ha Noi pronounced that his organisation has a bad debt-free standing with banks. He could not steal some-more income to raise his business as banks already reason his resources as collateral.

Tran Quy Lam, Director of Phu Tho-based Trung Kien Bottled Water Company was quoted by baodautu.vn as observant that given banks had so many bad debts they generally tightened a loan value process, that in spin had an inauspicious impact on other behaving companies.

In a request No 5342/NHNN-TTGSNH, antiquated Jul 24, a executive bank urged blurb banks to occupy solutions to assistance enterprises get entrance to some-more element to financial production.

Experts pronounced that both, banks and companies need any other to spend capital, nonetheless they competence have to build trust before going any further.

Domestic bullion approach posts pointy dump in second quarter

The approach for bullion declined neatly by 42 per cent in volume and 48 per cent in value in a second entertain over a same generation final year.

According to a latest news from a World Gold Council (WGC), Viet Nam purebred expenditure of 19.3 tonnes value US$799 million.

The country’s approach for trinket was 2.8 tonnes value $116 million, down 17 per cent, while a sum for bullion bars and coins were 16.5 tonnes value $683 million, down 45 per cent.

The WGC’s news on tellurian bullion expenditure in Q2 also showed that in a year finale June, Viet Nam consumed 86.3 tonnes of bullion value $3.6 billion, down 4 per cent in volume and 21 per cent in value.

The WGC ranked Viet Nam as a world’s seventh largest bullion consumer final year with 92.2 tonnes value $4.16 billion, adult 20 per cent opposite a prior year.

Viet Nam, this year, is saying a decrease in a approach for bullion as decelerating acceleration and some-more appealing opportunities in stocks, skill and bank deposits have driven a seductiveness divided from it.

Experts pronounced that this trend clearly showed a augmenting trust that a country’s expanding center category had in a economy during large.

Traditionally, many saw bullion as a usually protected approach to store their money, nonetheless now they are many some-more peaceful to keep their income in banks and deposit in businesses, bonds and other forms of financial instruments.

Nguyen Thanh Long, Chairman of a Viet Nam Gold Traders Association, pronounced that this trend was new to Viet Nam.

Long explained that when a economy was inconstant and acceleration high, people usually devoted gold. Now people are seeking investment in bonds and property, and even simply depositing income in banks could give them good returns, so approach for bullion had forsaken sharply, he said.

Experts foresee that bullion expenditure in Viet Nam, a largest Southeast Asian bullion consumer after Thailand, was approaching to cringe by half this year to between 25 and 30 tonnes.

Under a WGC’s Q2 report, a world’s sum bullion approach in Q2 was 964 tonnes, down 16 per cent opposite a same generation final year. Demand for trinket accounted for half that total.

India and China remained a world’s tip bullion consumers with $154 and $143 tonnes, respectively.

Central banks of countries worldwide in Q2 bought 118 tonnes of gold, adult 28 per cent opposite a same generation final year.

Real estate organisation opposite looser unfamiliar skill tenure rules

The conduct of a HCMC Real Estate Association pronounced authorities should not concede foreigners to buy homes in Vietnam even nonetheless a Ministry of Construction has been deliberation looser restrictions.

Le Hoang Chau, authority of a HCMC Real Estate Association, reliable a association’s stand. According to Chau, many countries usually concede foreigners to buy apartments in specific locations during a initial stages of opening their markets.

“For a initial 5 years, Singapore authorised foreigners to buy usually apartments. The anathema was gradually carried over a subsequent 5 years, nonetheless buyers still have to recompense aloft taxes. We shouldn’t concede foreigners buy villas and houses nonetheless while outmost certainty threats to Vietnam still exist. This would make a conditions formidable to control in a future,” he said.

Overseas Vietnamese and other unfamiliar pass holders will be available to possess apartments for a limit generation of 50 years. The Ministry of Construction due permitting foreigners buy some-more forms of housing in sequence to soothe a genuine estate marketplace slump.

Minister of Planning and Investment Bui Quang Vinh pronounced that investment in a housing marketplace by foreigners could yield a outrageous boost to a sector.

“The limit tenure of tenure for residential skill will still operation from 50 to 70 years. A lot of people will buy homes if we open this market. We have about 130,000 South Koreans renting apartments in Vietnam given they can’t buy houses. Those renters competence try to find ways to hedge taxes such as claiming obtuse let fees,” he said.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung also gave his support to a proposal.

Japan fast disburses FDI in Binh Duong

Japan stays a largest unfamiliar financier of southern Binh Duong operation with some-more than 220 projects and unfamiliar approach investment (FDI) disbursements of scarcely US$5 billion.

Most Japan-invested projects are in a areas of high-tech, electronic outsourcing, medical equipment, high-quality food processing, infrastructure and civic areas.

Mai Hung Dung, Director of a Binh Duong provincial Department of Planning and Investment, pronounced Japanese investors quite complied with their commitments to fast disburse FDI of projects that were protected late final year.

Typical examples embody Aeon Binh Duong trade, services and genuine estate plan with FDI disbursements of US$95 million and Tokyu Binh Duong civic area with disbursements of US$1.2 billion.

The Aeon Calary Binh Duong Commercial Centre is in a final proviso and is approaching to enter operation early Nov 2014. It was assembled on an area of 6h during a cost of US$95 million. Once completed, it will beget fast jobs for some-more than 1,500 inner workers.

Yasuo Nishitohge, Aeon Vietnam Director General, pronounced a plan is carried out uniformly in line with a group’s business and investment strategy.

The US$1.2 billion genuine estate plan (Sora Gardens) was erected by Tokyu Group and Becamex Corporation on an area of 110ha, and includes around 7,500 flats, houses, party sites, trade and bureau buildings.

Sora Garden is approaching for execution after this year.  The critical plan in Binh Duong will assistance attract other unfamiliar approach investment (FDI) from Japanese investors in a future.

According to a provincial People’s Committee, Binh Duong has captivated some-more than 2,300 FDI projects with a accumulative FDI of scarcely US$19.8 billion.

PM advances VND3.6 trillion to speed adult ODA projects

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has authorized an allege of VND3.6 trillion (US$169.2 million) as reflection appropriation for projects financed by executive enlargement assistance (ODA).

The income is approaching to assist a swell of many ride projects that are descending behind report due to a miss of reflection funding.

The primary apportion asked a Ministry of Planning and Investment to fast announce a list of projects and their particular allocated supports as good as instructing applicable agencies to exercise a PM’s sequence in a timely fashion.

At a assembly on Aug 2, Deputy PM Hoang Trung Hai settled that ODA value in a initial half of 2014 has so distant shown improvements from a prior year nonetheless a placement has not been even between all sectors and recipients.

Foreign-invested firms browbeat inner timber market

Foreign-invested enterprises now reason a lion’s share of Vietnam’s wooden seat marketplace and leave a 20% share to domestic companies, according to a Handicraft and Wood Industry Association of HCMC (HAWA).

Figures expelled by HAWA during a convention in HCMC final week showed any domicile in Vietnam spends VND6 million (less than US$300) shopping wooden products a year and adult to 80% of these products are done by foreign-invested enterprises in this market.

HAWA explained that a inner timber attention has grown dramatically with high trade revenues nonetheless inner firms generally outsource and semi-process wooden products due to their small-scale production. This is a reason since their distinction and sum value sojourn modest.

Doan Anh Tuan, executive of business enlargement for small- and medium-scaled enterprises (SME) during Vietnam Prosperity Bank (VP Bank), pronounced SMEs comment for 90% of a scarcely 3,000 companies handling in a timber estimate zone in Vietnam.

Foreign-invested firms make adult usually 10% of a sum series nonetheless minister 35% of a country’s wooden products trade turnover, Tuan pronounced during a convention on Vietnam’s economy and prospects for a inner woodworking attention in 2014.

According to a consult of a World Bank (WB), many enterprises in a timber estimate attention are domicile businesses with small-scale prolongation and capital. Therefore, they are simply influenced by marketplace changes and macro-economic factors. Labor capability during these firms is low as any Vietnamese workman can make 1.9 chairs a day, many reduce than China’s 4.5 chairs.

According to HAWA, Vietnam is now a tip wooden products exporter in a ASEAN region, second in Asia and sixth in a universe in terms of trade revenue. The republic has exported wooden products to 120 markets, including Japan and those in Europe and North America.

However, a inner zone has to import 80% of element needs.

Aid packages sojourn out of SMEs’ reach

Small and middle enterprises (SMEs) have found it formidable to advantage from a Government’s financial assistance packages, listened a convention reason by a 2030 Businessmen Club in HCMC final week.

At a convention on lenient SMEs to enter tellurian markets, Nguyen Bach Phuc, authority of a HCMC Association of Consultants in Science Technology and Management (Hascon), pronounced inner SMEs have not got sufficient support over a years and dozens of trillions of dong in assist has been channeled into genuine estate and construction giants or State companies like Vinashin and Vinalines instead of SMEs.

Phuc pronounced it was irrational to hear that an craving has recently sought to steal VND1.5 trillion to buy fishing boats that have been in use for 30 years in South Korea while many SMEs have been incompetent to strech favoured loans.

Sharing Phuc’s view, Ma Thi Thanh, clamp president of a business organisation in Soc Trang Province, pronounced around 70% of a enterprises in a Mekong Delta operation have not been means to find loans for their prolongation and trade activities.

Thanh sum that SMEs have struggled to continue a horde of problems and many vigour in a past 3 years, and it is tough to contend how prolonged they can bear some-more if there are no unsentimental ancillary policies for them this year.

In serve to assistance from a Government, according to business people and mercantile researchers during a seminar, SMEs have to join army if they wish to tarry and grow clever on both domestic and tellurian markets.

Sunil D Sharma, ubiquitous secretary of a International Society for Small and Medium Enterprises (ISSME), pronounced it is unavoidable for SMEs in Vietnam to make advantageous changes and improvements before they are clever adequate to enter tellurian markets. In a stream situation, enterprises have to raise their competitiveness by investing in governance and technological renovations.

ISSME is a non-governmental classification formed in India’s city of New Delhi. Its aims are to boost tolerable and extensive development.

250 firms to attend Vietstock 2014

Around 250 enterprises from 30 countries and territories are approaching to put their names down to attend in Vietstock 2014 Expo Conference, that is a vital feed and stock eventuality in Vietnam set to flog off in HCMC this October.

The 7th muster during a Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center in District 7 from Oct 15 to 17 will underline products of a cultivation attention as good as technologies for feed processing.

Organizers pronounced Vietstock 2014 Expo will be for inner and unfamiliar enterprises in a attention to accommodate and try opportunities for their partnership.

As partial of a exhibition, Vietnam Livestock Industry Awards 2014 will be orderly on Oct 15 to respect people and organizations carrying initiatives and good extend to a enlargement of a country’s stock industry. Awards will be postulated to 14 enterprises that have glorious achievements in supervision and enlargement of livestock, poultry, egg production, feed production, and sales of stock products.

Conferences will be reason in and with a muster for representatives to plead vital issues of a stock industry, including prospects of a beef estimate attention in Vietnam, opportunities and hurdles for a domestic stock attention when Vietnam signs a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, animal health, a effective monitoring processes for import and trade of animal feed and materials to minimize a use of antibiotics in animal feed.

Automakers drum adult sales promotions

A series of automakers and dealerships have launched sales graduation and bonus programs to woo business and obtain sales targets this month, that coincides with a seventh month of a lunar calendar.

Automakers pronounced many people see a month of erratic souls as bad for shopping things, generally those of high value such as cars and homes. This is since vehicle manufacturers and assemblers have to lift out promotions to attract customers.

Mazda assembler and importer VinaMazda has motionless to correct down a cost of Mazda 6 2.0L by VND126 million to reduction than VND1.16 billion and VND111 million to VND998 million for a 2.5L type.

In addition, consumers are given interrelated accessories, including DVD players with bluetooth connection, tellurian positioning systems (GPS) and programmed doorway close devices.

Ford Vietnam has reduced sell prices of Focus and Fiesta cars, with a VND20 million cut for Titanium and 1.0 Ecoboost Fiesta, VND50 million and VND40 million for Titanium and Sport+ versions of Ford Focus respectively.

The U.S. organisation also offers VND5 million to VND10 million discounts for XL 4×4 MT and XLT 4×4 versions of Ford Ranger pickups.

On a arise of a 20,000th Civic automobile sold, Honda Vietnam is charity iPhone 5S smartphones to a initial 100 buyers of Civic cars and high-class leather bags to those purchasing CR-V and City cars. Besides, a owners of Honda cars will get giveaway check services and a 10% bonus on upkeep price extension.

Mitsubishi Vietnam is in a graduation competition as good by discounting VND10 million and giving VND10-million use vouchers for buyers of Mirage hatchbacks. Meanwhile, a Triton GLS, GLS and GL versions of gasoline-fueled Pajero Sport have been noted down by VND30 million.

Toyota Vietnam, that dominates a inner vehicle market, has extended a module of giving word value VND15 million to buyers of Altis until a finish of this month. Dealerships of a Japanese organisation are offering Camry and Prado cars during over VND10 million reduce than before.

Purchasers of Avante and Accent cars of Hyundai Vietnam between now and Sep 15 will get VND15 million value of accessories or in cash.

Car dealerships projected vehicle sales this month would shelter opposite prior months given people tend to spend reduction on profitable products in a month of erratic souls. Last August, vehicle sales decreased 16% compared to a preceding month.

The inner vehicle marketplace is approaching to rebound behind in Sep and continue a ceiling movement toward a year-end as approach is always high in a final months of a year.

HCM City firms take out VND20 trillion of soothing loans

Many enterprises in HCMC have borrowed favoured loans amounting to a sum VND20 trillion within a bank-business connectivity module orderly by inner authorities.

Last Friday, 39 borrowers including enterprises, traders and normal soppy marketplace supervision play clinched credit contracts value over VND3.5 trillion. This is partial of a module orderly by a executive bank’s HCMC bend and a HCMC Department of Industry and Trade.

Nguyen Hoang Minh, emissary executive of a executive bank’s HCMC branch, pronounced there had been 22 credit agreement signing ceremonies in 24 districts in a initial 7 months of this year, with 649 enterprises, 41 family-run businesses and 6 cooperatives lent over VND15.6 trillion.

Minh pronounced a loans carried short-term seductiveness rates of 7-8% per annum and a limit 11% per annum for middle and prolonged tenors.

In June, a executive bank’s HCMC bend also cooperated with a HCMC Export Processing and Industrial Zones Authority (Hepza) to make arrangements for 23 enterprises to steal VND917.6 billion.

Speaking during a signing rite final Friday, HCMC clamp president Nguyen Thi Hong pronounced a city wanted to see businesses holding out new bank loans totaling during slightest VND10 trillion in a final 5 months of this year to move a sum in a module to VND30 trillion this year.

HCM City to disencumber construction rules

The HCMC supervision does not need a construction permit for houses of adult to 500 block meters and no some-more than 7 levels in civic and housing enlargement projects whose minute 1/500 scale zoning skeleton have been approved.

The change is partial of a preference expelled by a HCMC People’s Committee final week to umpire construction chartering in a city. The preference will take outcome this Thursday.

The new manners explain licenses will also be exempted for construction works during trade estimate zones, and industrial and hi-tech parks with scale 1/500 zoning skeleton already approved.

Citizens can get proxy licenses to build houses of no some-more than 3 levels outward a areas already zoned for civic and residential areas with authorized scale 1/500 zoning plans, nonetheless administering agencies have not expelled any preference withdrawing a land lots on that a houses are built.

The protected generation of these proxy houses should be from 3 to 5 years from a date of a zoning skeleton for a areas are announced and depending on annual land use skeleton of inner authorities.

Citizens will be authorised to repair, reconstruct and build a houses that are partly or wholly located in a areas already announced for a designed enlargement sections of ride projects, nonetheless applicable agencies have not expelled decisions holding behind land in these areas. The licenses for such new houses are singular to 3 years.

According to statistics from a HCMC government, a city has 1,386 housing projects with a sum area of some-more than 11,770 hectares. Only 13% of a sum area has been completed, 15% underneath construction, 61.6% dangling and a rest taken behind or carrying investment certificates revoked.

Farm furnish exports to Saudi Arabia jump

The Africa, Western and South Asia Markets Department underneath a Ministry of Industry and Trade pronounced exports of Vietnamese rural products to a Saudi Arabia marketplace in a Middle East has augmenting strongly.

Updated statistics from a General Department of Customs indicated Vietnam’s exports of plantation furnish to Saudi Arabia in a initial half of this year surpassed US$30 million, adult a towering 34.4% compared to a same generation final year.

The trade income enclosed US$16.6 million from peppers contribution, US$3.8 million from vegetables, US$3 million from rice, US$2.2 million from cashew nuts, and US$2.1 million from tea, rubber and cassava.

The generation saw latex shipments to Saudi Arabia adult 300% over a initial half of final year, tea 13.7% and vegetables 5.6%. Particularly, peppers exports gained a year-on-year enlargement rate of over 88%, creation Saudi Arabia a second largest importer of Vietnamese peppers in a initial 6 months of this year.

Saudi Arabia is a vital marketplace in a Middle East and has to import vast volumes of rural products for domestic approach as a oppressive continue conditions are not suitable for rural development, generally prolongation of essential items.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade pronounced Saudi Arabia is a marketplace of good intensity for Vietnamese enterprises, quite producers and exporters of plantation produce.

Complexity hinders inner firms to gain on FTAs

A consult by a Economist Intelligence Unit indicated tenure complexity is a tip jump for Vietnamese enterprises to make a many of shared and multilateral giveaway trade agreements (FTA) a republic has assimilated so far.

The HSBC-sponsored consult found that 52% of respondents in Vietnam forked out a complexity of a agreement terms as a categorical reason that prevents them from benefiting from FTAs.

Following a tenure complexity are homely markets to enter (40%), advantages not adequate to recompense for a problems in regulating a FTAs (38%), a miss of inner imagination (30%), already duty-free entrance charity to respondents’ products (29%) and no estimable new marketplace entrance supposing (24%).

The bank final week expelled a commentary of a survey, that a Economist Intelligence Unit conducted among comparison executives from 100 companies in any of Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam in a initial entertain of this year.

The companies participating in a consult have annual revenues of between US$50 million and US$150 million. They work in information record and telecoms, consumer products and retail, financial services and prolongation among others.

Despite a tenure complexity, adult to 80% of respondents in Vietnam pronounced a FTAs they used have led to some-more trade facilitation and investment opportunities, followed by far-reaching customer bottom (70%), new business opportunities (67%), entirely-opened new markets (63%), far-reaching choices of suppliers (58%), augmenting efficiencies in supply chain, and softened entrance to talent pool in pivotal markets (43%).

According to a survey, 37% of Vietnam’s exporters make full use of any FTA a republic has sealed and Vietnam is ranked second in Asia for FTA use after Indonesia (42%) and above Hong Kong (33%), India (27%) and China (23%).

In Asia, nonetheless any FTA in a shred is capitalized on by usually 26% of exporters, 86% of respondents pronounced their outbound sales have jumped as a outcome of a FTAs they use and 79% determine that singing some-more trade pacts will assistance pull adult their exports.

The consult showed 78% of all respondents opposite Asia wish their governments to pointer some-more FTAs and 78% of them wish FTA with some-more extensive provisions.

Vietnam has assimilated rounds of negotiations for a series of FTAs, including a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and a agreement with a European Union. Many inner enterprises approaching these dual trade agreements would be resolved shortly for them to serve money in on Vietnam’s tip trade markets, including Europe, a United States and Japan.

Source: VEF/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/Dantri/VIR

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