THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Report No. 1296/BC-BNN-HTQT dated April 17, 2013 of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on the contents and measures for managing and supervising the frozen white offal re-import
To: the Prime Minister
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development received the Notice No. 130/TB-VPCP dated March 27, 2013 about the conclusion of the Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai in the meeting with Ministries and agencies on March 20, 2013 about the permission to re-import frozen white offal.
On April 28, 2013, to implement the instructions of the Deputy Minister Hoang Trung Hai, after seeking opinions from other Ministries and agencies, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development had a meeting with its specialized agencies about the management and supervision of frozen white offal when they are permitted to be re-imported, and make a report as follows:
1. The permission to re-import frozen white offal at this time is necessary to:
- Reassert that the SPS measures taken by Vietnam are well-founded and based on scientific evidence; relieve the concerns of the countries relating to the trade policy of Vietnam in which the import ban on white offal is mentioned in the notice of WTO/SPS Committee (G/SPS/GEN/204/Rev.13) and in Chapter III of the draft report on reviewing the trade policy of Vietnam made by WTO Secretariat, and intended to be brought to the hearing in September 2013 in Geneva.
