Area
Viet Nam
Commodity Group
Rice
Commodity
All
Date
24/03/2020
Policy Category
Trade
Policy Instrument
Export restrictions
Description
Decided that no new rice export contracts could be signed from 25 March 2020 until an inter-ministerial body reviewed the country\'s rice supply situation to ensure that sufficient availabilities existed to meet domestic needs in the context of the Covid-19 outbreak. The findings of the inter-ministerial body, not expected until at least 28 March 2020, would serve to define the rice export policy going forward. The decision followed news the preceding day relaying that the General Department of Viet Nam Customs had instructed provincial and city level customs departments to stop the registration, receipt and clearance of rice export contracts from 25 March 2020 until the end of May 2020, while permitting rice exports registered prior to that date.
