Over 7,500 Firms Join NSW

The General Department of Customs said the National Single Window (NSW) was assigned to the Ministry of Finance (General Department of Customs) by the Prime Minister and was deployed in 2014. As of the August 29, 2016, NSW officially connected with 10 ministries, namely the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Ministry of Finance (General Department of Customs), the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Ministry of Information and Communications, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of National Defence. In addition to customs clearance procedures (Ministry of Finance), 33 administrative procedures submitted by nine other ministries will be carried out on NSW. NSW handled over 165,000 sets of documents and served 7,598 regular companies as of September 15, 2016.

 

Meanwhile, ASW technically connected with four ASEAN nations as of September 2015, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore to exchange certificates of origin Form D, applied to exports originated in ASEAN. The scope of connection will be widened after the Protocol on ASW takes effect in 2016. To date, five ASEAN member countries approved the Protocol and Vietnam was the third in the region to adopt it.