Provincial Customs Department: Enterprises carrying out import and export procedures on sharp increase

Through statistics by Binh Duong provincial Customs Department, the unit’s total State budget revenue from export and import activities in the first 2 months of 2024 was more than VND1.73 trillion, reaching 10.31% of the 2024 estimate. As of February 15, 2024, the unit handled customs procedures for 4,644 businesses with 212,779 declarations, an increase of 29.89% over the same period last year. Among them, 65,644 were import declarations, an increase of 18.85% and export declarations were 147,135, an increase of 35.51%. Total import-export turnover through the area reached US$ 6.44 billion, an increase of about 5.55% over the same period last year. Of these, import value was US$ 2.46 billion and export turnover was US$ 3.97 billion.

According to provincial Customs Department, import goods are mainly machinery and equipment, electronic components, garment raw materials, chemicals... while export goods are still wood, garment, iron& steel and electronic products. To successfully implement the set goals, provincial Customs Department will further promote administrative procedure reform and customs modernization, implementing digital transformation to facilitate businesses; strengthen inspection and control to prevent smuggling and trade fraud, contributing to increasing revenue for the State budget.

Reported by Ngoc Thanh-Translated by Kim Tin