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THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No: 156/2006/QD-TTg
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Hanoi, June 30, 2006
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DECISION
RE: APPROVAL OF THE PLAN FOR EXPORT
DEVELOPMENT FOR THE PHASE FROM 2006 TO 2010
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the Law on Government Organization dated
December 25, 2001;
Upon on proposal of the Ministry of Trade in Petition 3281/TTr-BTM dated May
29, 2006,
HEREBY DECIDES:
Article 1. The Plan for Export Development for the phase from 2006 to
2010 (better known as the Plan) with the following contents is approved.
I. DEVELOPMENT VIEWS
1. Pushing up implementation of the guidelines on
encouraging exports of goods and services so as to contribute to GDP growth,
production development and labour attraction in compliance with rules of the
World Trade Organization and international agreements that Vietnam is a member.
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3. Encouraging and mobilizing resources of all economic
sectors and luring more foreign investment for production of export commodities,
step by step creating prestigious brands to satisfy requirements of export markets.
4. Boosting imports in the orientation of focusing resources
on investment and production development; controlling trade deficit by
increasing export value so as to keep the balance of payment and macro
stability of the economy from negatively affected.
II. DEVELOPMENT GOALS
1. General aims
Achieving high, sustainable export growth rate. Speeding up
investment in production of competitive export products, which are capable to
gain a considerable market share in the world market. Changing export structure
in the orientation of accelerating exports of products with high added value;
processed and manufacture products and those with high content of technology
and intelligence, reducing share of raw exports; pushing up service exports.
2. Specific aims
- Obtaining an average goods export growth rate of 17.5% per
annum and earning an annual goods export value of $72.5 billion by 2010.
- Obtaining an average service export growth rate of 16.3%
per annum and earning an annual goods export value of $12 billion by 2010.
- Agricultural – forestry – aquatic products should make up
13.7%; fuel and mineral products, 9.6%; industrial and high-tech products 54.0%;
and other products, 22.7% of the total export value. In terms of geographical
structure, the Asian market should represent 45.0%; European market, 23%;
American market, 24%; and the Oceanic market, 5.0%; and other markets, 3% of
the total export turnover.
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III. MAJOR SOLUTIONS
1. Supporting business environment
- Expanding business rights and opening the market for
trading, distributing of goods and services in accordance with international
agreements that Vietnam is a member; ensuring the principle of equal treatment
in providing export assistance services in Vietnam; step by step eliminating
monopoly in the fields of post and telecom, energy, insurance, transport, sea
port, logistics, etc to improve business performance and reduce business costs
for the business community.
- Facilitating establishment and operation of centers that
supply materials to enterprises producing export commodities.
- Reforming formalities and modernizing customs work,
minimizing time for customs procedures for export and import.
- Signing agreements on banking international payments with
export markets facing difficulties in transaction and payment guarantee;
signing bilateral agreements and mutual recognition on food safety, sanitary
and phytosanitary with trade partners.
2. Enhancing the system of financial, credit and investment
policies for the export sector
- Renewing credit policies in the orientation of market
economy; improving credit policies for development of export production and
export credit policies in compliance with the views and aims of the Plan and
the WTO’s rules and other international agreements that Vietnam is a member; launching
more credits modes, ensuring favourable capital access conditions and credit
modes at commercial banks; gradually providing loans to importers with stable
value and large share, especially of agricultural products.
- Properly implementing the mechanism on tax refund for
businesses importing materials to supply to export manufacturers.
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- Keep exchange rates at levels as near real levels as
possible and matching purchase power of dong, tie dong to a number of freely
exchangeable currencies so as to avoid risks against exporters.
3. Improving administration over trade promotion activities
- Renewing operation, management and use of the Fund for
Economic Diplomacy so as to improve its efficiency in assisting the business
community developing markets and seeking for business partners.
- Diversifying and expanding trade promotion modes.
- Improving quality of construction and implementation of
the annual national trade promotion program; coordinating promotion activities
to organize trade, investment and tourism promotion programs for several
sectors at the same time so as to promote the country’s image, even through
international media.
- Pushing up high-level trade promotion activities to boost
cooperation, investment and trading, especially to attract multinationals to
invest in export manufacture.
- Reorganizing trade promotion organizations and the
mechanism on providing market information and consultancy about investment,
trade, law and business environment at home and abroad for the business
community.
4. Training and developing labour resource for export
production industries
- Setting up detailed plans and carrying out vocational
training programs to solve the problem of labour dearth and improve quality of
labour in export production sectors; speeding up socialization of vocational
training services; balancing vocational training funds for export production
industries in certain places.
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5. Setting up forecast programs and export boosting plans
for sectors
- Setting up forecast programs to analyze competitiveness by
2010 for major export products and services.
- Constructing and carrying out plans to boost exports for
export industries (this should be done by Ministries) on the basis of the
development views and goals of the Plan and the aforesaid forecast programs as
well as the strategy for development of industries by the year of 2010 approved
by the Prime Minister.
Establishment of plans for specific industries should have
consultancy and coordination of the Ministry of Trade, provincial People’s
Committees and relevant sectoral corporations to ensure feasibility and
suitability with international agreements that Vietnam is a member. There
should be tight linkage between manufacturers of materials and those of export
products through policies that create close ties between interests of the 2
subjects.
6. Restrict trade deficit
On the basis of the Plan’s goals of keeping trade deficit at
a reasonable level, restricting it from negatively impacting balance of payment
and macro stability of the economy, ensuring Vietnam international commitments,
measures to control trade deficit are as the following:
- Boosting exports of goods and services, especially to
markets that Vietnam has trade deficit with. This should be considered as major
measure to control trade deficit;
- On the basis of ensuring compositeness and forecasting
market demand, developing competitive products to satisfy domestic demand;
renewing technology and management to save inputs;
- Controlling exchange rates and interest rates to match
economic development, restricting trade deficit;
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- Boosting the export, tourism and labour export sectors;
luring more overseas remittance;
- Speeding up attraction and effective use of foreign
investment and ODA.
IV. IMPLEMENTATION
1. The Ministry of Trade is in charge of:
- Coordinating with Ministries, localities, corporations,
groups and associations to carry out the plan.
- Providing information, updating information about
implementation of export plans for sectors; consolidating, reporting and
proposing necessary policies and mechanism to speed up implementation of the
plan and export plans for specific sectors.
- Coordinating with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to study
and propose new mechanism on use of the Fund for Economic Diplomacy, submitting
that to the Prime Minister for consideration.
- Presiding over and coordinating with relevant Ministries
and industries to establish the plan for forecasting and analyzing
competitiveness of major export products and services by 2010; presiding over
implementation of measures to improve efficiency of trade promotion activities
and restrict trade deficit and coordinate with relevant agencies to implement
other measures of the plan.
2. The Ministries of Finance, Planning and Investment and
the State Bank of Vietnam have the following responsibilities:
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3. The Ministry of Labour, War Invalid and Social Affairs is
in charge of presiding and coordinating with relevant Ministries and industries
to define sectors in need for support and establish plans to deliver vocational
training support to sectors in need.
4. In the scope of management, Ministries and industries are
responsible for studying and implementing specific export plans, coordinating
tightly with the Ministry of Trade and other relevant agencies to carry out
contents and measures of the Plan.
5. People Committee of provinces and cities under direct
central management direct local agencies to construct and coordinate with
central agencies to implement plans and programs for development of export
production and boosting exports of local products on the basis of views and
goals of the Plan and other export plans built by relevant Ministries.
Article 2. The Decision will come into effect in 15 days after it is
publicized in the Gazette.
Article 3. Ministers, Directors of ministerial-level agencies,
Government’s units, Chairmen of People’s Committees of provinces and cities
under direct central management are in charge of implementation of the
Decision./.
To:
- Party
Central Secretariat;
- Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Ministers;
- Ministries, ministerial-level agencies;
- People’s Committees, People’s Councils of provinces and cities under direct
central management,
- Party Central Office and Party’s units;
- President Office,
- National Council and committees of National Assembly,
- National Assembly Office,
- Supreme People’s Court,
- Supreme People’s Procuracy,
- Central units of organizations,
- National Administration Institute,
- Government Office,
-Archive
PRIME MINISTER
Nguyen Tan Dung
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