AreaViet Nam

Commodity GroupRice

CommodityAll

Date13/09/2021

Policy CategoryTrade

Policy InstrumentImport quota

DescriptionRenewed import duty exemptions on Cambodian rice. Accordingly, it would allow 300 000 tonnes of Cambodian paddy and husked rice to enter the country, per year, in 2021 and 2022. It further specified that this tariff rate quota would not include imported rice grown in Cambodia by Vietnamese persons or entities, or volumes brought into the country for re-export. These classes of imports would be governed by other regulations. Moreover, imported volumes exceeding this tariff rate quota could also be eligible for preferential rates under other trade agreements in which both countries partook, or for Most Favored Nation (MFN) tariff rates, if they met the conditions set out by Decrees governing their implementation.