In recent years, Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department has been considered a typical unit in developing the Customs - Business partnership. In particular, many effective solutions have been implemented by the unit and are promoting positive results.

Sharing the results that Ho Chi Minh City Customs has achieved in the cooperation partnership work and the benefits that have brought many results to both the Customs agency and the business community, Mr. Do Thanh Quang thanked more than 60,000 enterprises and business associations in Ho Chi Minh City for always accompanying the Customs agency over the past years.

In recent times, Ho Chi Minh City Customs has done a good job of disseminating the law; regularly organizing dialogues with enterprises and business associations. Accordingly, Ho Chi Minh City Customs has organized more than 200 dialogues, exchanges, and problem solving sessions for domestic and foreign business associations such as: Korean, Japanese, European Business Associations, etc. In particular, Ho Chi Minh City Customs has actively indirectly answered more than 30,000 questions and directly exchanged and solved more than 29,000 recommendations, proposals, and problems of enterprises and business associations with import-export activities in Ho Chi Minh City.

The speakers participating in the discussion at session 1 were Deputy Director General of the General Department of Vietnam Customs Dinh Ngoc Thang; Deputy Director of the Department of Customs Supervision and Management Dao Duy Tam; Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department Do Thanh Quang; Deputy Secretary General, Head of the Legal Department of the Vietnam Federation of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) Dau Anh Tuan and Head of the Customs Department, Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Vietnam (JCCI) Yoshihara Toru. Photo: Thai Binh

Not only that, every year Ho Chi Minh City Customs organizes voting, honoring, praising and rewarding enterprises with positive contributions, law compliance, and leading in the work of collecting and paying state budget.

The efforts of Ho Chi Minh City Customs have brought many positive benefits in trade activities and are highly appreciated by the business community. Specifically, Ho Chi Minh City Customs proactively encourages enterprises to increase their level of compliance with the law, reduce risk levels, and increase the rate of exemption from document inspection and goods inspection. Accordingly, up to now, more than 65% of goods passing through Ho Chi Minh City are processed and cleared quickly within 3 seconds; 30% of goods are processed and cleared within 10 minutes and about 3 - 5% of goods are processed and cleared within 1 hour. In addition, enterprises' compliance with customs policies and laws also helps reduce storage time and costs.

The benefits that enterprises have achieved have also brought many outstanding results to the Customs agency. The most outstanding results include the completion of the strategic goals set out with the motto: Taking the satisfaction of people and enterprises as a measure for all activities of the Customs agency. Mr. Do Thanh Quang likened: "Good land attracts birds, along with good reputation spreading far and wide, etc developing the Customs - Enterprise partnership will contribute to attracting investment in Ho Chi Minh City to grow stronger".

Mr. Do Thanh Quang, Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department, shared the results of developing Customs - Business partnership at Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department. Photo: Thai Binh

Since the beginning of the year, enterprises have contributed more than VND 85,000 billion to the Ho Chi Minh City budget with an import-export turnover of USD 85 billion. Notably, every day (including Saturday and Sunday), enterprises have contributed nearly VND 350 billion to the State budget.

As the customs unit managing the largest volume of import-export goods in the country, accounting for nearly 20% of the total turnover of the whole industry, with 60,000 enterprises registering to carry out customs procedures, Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department has always demonstrated its leading role, leading the economic development of the whole country.

According to Mr. Quang, Resolution No. 98/2023/QH15 dated June 24, 2023 of the National Assembly on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Ho Chi Minh City is a necessary boost for this locomotive to be stronger - switching from diesel engines to jet engines. Therefore, Ho Chi Minh City Customs must be responsible for creating a favorable, safe and equal environment for enterprises; rolling out the red carpet to attract domestic and foreign enterprises to invest, produce, do business and develop. It can be said that the role of Ho Chi Minh City Customs is to work with enterprises to build a cooperative partnership to turn the country's economic locomotive into a maximum efficiency.

Ho Chi Minh City Customs is committed to accompanying enterprises according to the motto: "Harmonious benefits, shared risks" - This is also the wish of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh: "don't say no, don't say it difficult, don't say yes but don't do", Mr. Quang added.

In order to achieve the set goals in developing partnerships with enterprises and related parties, over the years, Ho Chi Minh City Customs and enterprises have worked together to come up with many effective solutions. In particular, Ho Chi Minh City Customs continues to do a good job of disseminating laws; Regularly organize dialogues and discussions with the business community and business associations; actively answer questions and promptly resolve difficulties for businesses; select, honor, and reward businesses that have made positive contributions to the economic development of Ho Chi Minh City in particular and Vietnam in general.