


There should be solutions to verify if the consignment of products truly has problems.Īccording to the General Department of Customs (GDC), Vietnam’s farm produce is present in over 180 markets. Regarding the example about chili that has to make a detour to enter Malaysia, Tu said the importing country may think the product is not safe enough. On the export of farm produce, Bui Hoang Yen from the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade) stressed that not only Malaysia, but all export markets prevent products with pesticide residue from entering their countries, especially European countries.Īccording to Dinh Viet Tu from MARD, many companies and processing workshops, after obtaining certificates on product quality, have neglected implementing rules on food hygiene. An official of the customs agency said that Malaysian authorities requested certification on cultivation areas of the products imported to the country.Įnterprises need to contact the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) to get the certificates. These two examples were related at a seminar in HCM City discussing solutions to improve competitiveness and promote farm, forestry and seafood produce held several days ago.Īccording to the Binh Duong Customs Agency, Malaysia has lifted the chili import ban since April 2021, so enterprises and exporters need to carefully learn information about chili exports. This means that Vietnam’s products have to ‘make a detour’ to enter the Malaysian market, and the costs would be higher. The company that imported the products said local agencies found plant protection residues in the products.īut tge products still could be exported to Malaysia if they had a Thai brand. However, in September 2019, when the country began prohibiting imported chili products. In the past, as the company regularly exported chili to the country. Malaysia was a traditional market of Binh Duong-based Agri Development Co Ltd. A Vietnamese enterprise once had to pay compensation for an entire consignment of products to the Japanese partner after a few hairs were found in some packages of products.
