Vietnam to simplify customs checks

Customs officials checking a batch of goods. Vietnam hopes to hasten the reform of customs checks further to save time and costs for businesses and facilitate trade. — Photo moit.gov.vn

HANOI (Vietnam News/ANN): Vietnam plans to hasten the reform of customs checks to save time and costs for businesses and facilitate trade.

At a meeting on Wednesday (Feb 19) discussing a project about renovating the checking model for export/import product quality, Minister and Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tiến Dũng said the simplification of customs checks had seen significant improvements in recent years.