Binh Duong Customs join hands to improve the business environment and attract investment

With the advocacy of considering businesses as partners to accompany and develop together, units under the Binh Duong Provincial Customs Department have proactively taken many solutions to remove obstacles and create favorable conditions for businesses in the area during the production and business process. Thereby, contributing to improving the investment environment and raising the province's Competitiveness Index (PCI).

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 Create favorable conditions for businesses

As making efforts to improve the investment environment, Binh Duong has attracted many domestic and foreign enterprises investing in production and business. Thereby, import-export enterprises in the province have developed rapidly in both quantity and size, especially FDI enterprises.

To help businesses understand customs regulations, the Provincial Customs Department regularly organizes dialogues, meetings, and sessions with businesses to listen and share their difficulties. The customs industry is committed to creating the best conditions for businesses when carrying out import and export procedures in the province. Recently, Binh Duong Customs Department coordinated with the Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Binh Duong (Kocham Binh Duong) to hold a dialogue conference with Korean businesses in 2024. At the meeting, leaders of Provincial Customs Department and customs branches answered in detail opinions and problems of businesses related to customs procedures...

From customs - business dialogue conferences, Binh Duong Customs Department continues to develop the motto "Customs insutry always stands side by side with business community". Accordingly, to develop relationships between businesses and related parties with some key activities including information, propaganda, and support for businesses to facilitate trade and improve legal compliance; Strengthen consultation and dialogue activities... to increase transparency, reduce time and unofficial costs for businesses.

Having the opportunity to meet and discuss with investors and large FDI enterprises investing in the province, we recorded positive comments on the role of customs authorities in creating favorable conditions for businesses. This is one of the important reasons for large corporations to invest and expand production in Binh Duong.

You Byung Ha, Customs Counselor, Consulate General of Korea in Ho Chi Minh City, shared: “Binh Duong province is an attractive destination for Korean investors. In particular, I also often see images of customs officers actively trying to remove difficulties and inconveniences in customs clearance procedures helping businesses. Hopefully, the Korean business community in the province would continue to receive attention and support from Provincial Customs to expand production and business investment, create more job opportunities and contribute more to the provincial development".

Nguyen Thanh Binh, Deputy Director of Binh Duong Customs Department, said that thanks to administrative procedure reform, customs modernization and the implementation of support solutions, accompanying businesses, customs cooperation and customs - businesses partnership in the province have been highly appreciated by the business community for many years. It contributes to improving the business environment and promoting investment attraction in the area.

Diverse import and export methods

Taking advantage of the favorable geographical location for transportation and at the same time the province has Song Than international intermodal station - the largest freight station in the South, Binh Duong is utilizing its potential to serve its economic development. After a short time, this new import-export method has brought more efficiency, safety, cost savings, and easy access to and from industrial, manufacturing and raw material centers from China and third-party countries.

Recently, in order to continue to create maximum convenience for import-export enterprises, Binh Duong Customs Department and Tan Cang Express Joint Stock Company introduced extended air warehouse operations for 150 import-export and logistics enterprises in the province. The long-term method of import and export through warehouses will help businesses save time and costs when transporting goods to airports, facilitate assembling and packaging of goods, and shorten the time for weighing and measuring goods, security screening and customs procedures.

According to representatives of Tan Cang Express Joint Stock Company, in the current context, import and export goods through postal services, express delivery and long-term warehouses are an opportunity to create a breakthrough in e-commerce development, diversify types of import and export of goods, contributing to the formation of a large logistics center in the province. This also helps businesses with import-export activities via air, logistics businesses with bonded warehouse business, electronic import-export businesses, and high-tech businesses to have the opportunity to develop and form stable supply chains of goods, contributing to the economic development of the province.

Nguyen Thanh Binh, Deputy Director of Provincial Customs Department, said that by 2024, the Customs Department is determined to strive for a State budget revenue of VND 16,990 billion. This is a very high goal and to accomplish this goal, Binh Duong Customs Department continues to develop many solutions to promptly remove obstacles, support and accompany businesses to stabilize production and business activities, avoid supply chain disruption, facilitate import and export activities, strive to achieve and exceed assigned targets in 2024.

 In the first four months of 2024, production and business have gradually been recovered, import-export activities are growing. Over the first four months of 2024, export turnover was estimated to reach nearly US$10.1 billion, up 15.6% over the same period last year, import turnover was estimated at more than US$7.5 billion, up 10.5% over the same period last year.

 Reported by Ngoc Thanh - Translated by Ngoc Huynh