The Vietnam Trade Office in Australia has sent a warning to enterprises about a packaging mistake on longans exported to Australia. The first batch was already stopped at Customs. This batch was stopped by the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service in Melbourne due to improper packaging.
After negotiations between the Vietnam Trade Office and officials in Australia, the batch was cleared by customs.
This office said it had released the requirements for longan exports on the websites of Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Vietnam Trade Office. However, many businesses had not paid due attention to the conditions.
Đàm Quang Thắng, general director of Agricare Vietnam Co, Ltd which specialises in fresh fruit exports, said there had been numerous instances of Vietnamese agricultural products being returned because they did not meet the standards of importing countries. This has not only damaged businesses, but also affected the reputation of Vietnamese agricultural products.
“Vietnam has one of the highest rate of export goods that are returned. There are many reasons for not meeting technical standards in importing countries, but the problems are mainly in the pre-processing, processing and production stages,” Thắng said.
