Share4 PROCEDURES TO VIETNAMESE AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS TO EU (P1)
After the Covid 19, the world agricultural product market recovered strongly, the demand for agricultural products increased. Vietnamese investors also began to pay more attention to this market and the quality of agricultural products was put on top. This is a great opportunity for businesses exporting to foreign countries. Therefore, understanding the procedures for exporting agricultural products is a necessary job, making the process of bringing Vietnamese agricultural products to other countries more convenient and easier. Let’s find out all the steps with Loyo in the article below!
Vietnamese agricultural products are increasingly popular in many countries, some popular agricultural products including rice, vegetables, tubers, fruits, … of Vietnam are loved in many markets. In the future, Vietnamese agricultural products need to continue to promote their strengths to ensure quality, meet requirements and set standards to affirm their position in the world market. Therefore, all strategies must be oriented specifically, combined with building a reasonable process of exporting agricultural products, creating maximum conditions for business units in this field to work with peace of mind.
Steps to complete the procedures for exporting agricultural products:
1. About quality
Normally, there are 7 criteria to evaluate the quality of agricultural products depending on the purpose and use, specifically:
- Indicators of nutrition – Indicators of sensory quality and food quality
- Standards of goods quality
- Standards on food quality, hygiene and safety
- Standards of processing quality
- Criteria for seed quality
- Standards of preservation quality
- About how to preserve and pack
Exported goods must be packed and preserved strictly and according to technical specifications. This helps to avoid damage to the goods and keep the quality intact during transit.
Note: Special agricultural products, fruit products need to be carefully noted because during transportation, it may happen that they are crushed or damaged. In addition, is it necessary to consider whether agricultural products are allowed to be imported in that country’s market? In particular, the regulations of the country importing agricultural products are somewhat stricter.
2. Prepare export documents
The unit needs to prepare all documents to export agricultural products. In addition to the usual documents, when exporting agricultural products, it is necessary to prepare the following documents:
- Bill of sale
- VAT invoice
- List of goods
- Quality certification
- Certificate of Origin
- Certificate of fumigation
- Agricultural product export contract
- …
The next thing to do is to bring the above-mentioned documents to register for plant quarantine at the Plant Disease Inspection Sub-Department of Region II before exporting. If the enterprise is exporting agricultural products for the first time, it is necessary to invite the staff to come to the warehouse to take steps to take samples for inspection. If it is an enterprise that exports many times, it only needs to bring the form with the quarantine registration dossier to submit. After completing the steps, proceed to pay the quarantine fee at the accounting department.
Please look forward to reading part 2 in the next issue.