The Ministry of Industry and Trade issued an urgent directive to prevent fraud

Tuyết Lan |

On April 15, 2025, the Ministry of Industry and Trade issued Directive 09/CT-BCT on strengthening the state management with the inspection and supervision of goods origin in the new situation.

Directive 09/CT-BCT stated that at present, the situation of international trade is complicated, fast, unpredictable, strategic competition is increasingly strong, sensitive, especially when the United States applies reciprocal tariff policies for many countries around the world including Vietnam.

At the same time, escalating trade tensions leading to commercial fraud. In particular, fraud from goods tends to increase and complicated to avoid sanctions that countries will apply to imported goods.

In order to proactively adapt to the new situation, the Minister of Industry and Trade requires relevant units and agencies of this Ministry, especially agencies and organizations that issue certificates of origin of goods (C/O) drastically and synchronously perform many tasks.

For the Import and Export Department, the Department should amend and supplement legal documents in the field of goods originating in accordance with the Law on Organization of the Government in 2025 and the Law on Organization of local governments 2025 to organize the implementation of C/O issuing in the new situation.

At the same time, advising the Minister to promulgate a written request to the functions, industry associations and production and export enterprises to strengthen the management and supervision of the input materials for export of exported goods to meet the requirements of food hygiene and safety, quality and origin of goods according to import water requirements ...

With the Legal Department, the Legal Department needs to coordinate with the Department of Import and Export to soon complete the legal documents that need to be amended and supplemented in accordance with the Law on Organization of the Government in 2025 and the Law on Organization of the local government in 2025 to organize the implementation of the appropriate C/O issuance in the new situation.

The Legal Department shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Import and Export Department to review the relevant legal documents to propose the appropriate implementation of the C/O level implementation mechanism in the new situation ...

For the Department of E -Commerce and Digital Economy, the Department is responsible for presiding over and coordinating with the Import and Export Department to urgently upgrade and perfect the features of Ecosys to soon implement the work of granting of non -preferential C/O types, ensuring the effectiveness of the grant of C/O preferential.

In addition, it is necessary to preside over and coordinate with the Department of Import and Export to study and develop additional information processing features on Ecosys to serve the review, evaluation, inspection of activities for C/O level and verification in case of need ...

For the Department of Foreign Market Development, the Department of Vietnam Trade Agency should be directed to study, learn about mechanisms and regulations on goods origin of the host countries, providing the Import and Export Department to complete the regulations on the rules of origin of goods, C/O grant, prevent fraud from goods origin.

Assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Import and Export Department, the Trade Defense Department provides timely information about the policy action of countries in the management of goods import activities through state management tools on goods origin and trade defense measures.

For the Department of Domestic Market Management and Development, the Department should strengthen the inspection and supervision of the market to detect and handle the acts of trading goods, especially smuggled raw materials and goods of unknown origin for export production, in case it is necessary to transfer functional agencies to ensure the strictness of the law ...

The Department of Commercial Division should assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with relevant units to focus on implementing the task group of the Ministry of Industry and Trade assigned in the Prime Minister's Decision No. 824/QD-TTg of July 4, 2019, approving the Project "Strengthening the State management of anti-encroachment to avoid commercial defense measures and frauds", according to the specific assignment in Decision No. 2094A/QD-BCT on the plan of the Ministry of Industry andign, the plan of the Ministry of Industry and20 "Strengthening the state management of anti -encroachment to avoid trade and frauds of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

The multi -border trade policy should be actively monitored and exchanged with FTA partners to handle arising problems related to the origin of goods in the process of implementing FTAs; coordinate with relevant units to summarize, report and propose appropriate handling plans, ensure compliance with international commitments and protect the legitimate rights of Vietnamese enterprises.

The Ministry Office, the Department of Planning, Finance and enterprise management should coordinate with the Import and Export Department according to the functions and tasks assigned to related to the state management of export goods.

For C/O level agencies and organizations, it is necessary to fulfill the responsibilities of the granting, inspection and verification of C/O in accordance with the Government's Decree No. 31/2018/ND-CP of August 8, 2018, detailing the Law on Foreign Trade Management on the origin of goods and current regulations.

It is necessary to promote the prevention of fraudulent origin through enhancing the efficiency of the granting and checking the C/O especially for businesses with a sudden increase in the amount of C/O issuing dossiers ...

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