The Vietnam Directorate of Market Surveillance signed official letter No. 548 requesting inspection and issuing harsh penalties on sellers of substandard petroleum.
The Vietnam Directorate of Market Surveillance under the Ministry of Industry and Trade has just announced a list of 11 companies being imposed administrative fines due to violations of petroleum business including maintaining petroleum reserve below the minimum level as regulated, importing gasoline below the minimum level in terms of quantity, annual allocated petroleum categories and so on.
Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien, on July 29, signed and promulgated Official Dispatch No. 4436 requesting the Head of the Vietnam Directorate of Market Surveillance and the heads of the Market Surveillance Agency in municipalities to strengthen inspection and supervision of the market, ensuring the balance of supply and demand.
Additional twenty-two people were prosecuted for allegedly making and selling counterfeit books, the Police Investigation Agency under the Ministry of Public Security announced yesterday.
According to the plan which was announced, from the beginning of this week, the inspection team of the Ministry of Industry and Trade will pay visits to petroleum filling stations in Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade yesterday revealed to the media that the Domestic Market Department has required localities and petrol businesses to provide enough petrol for local demand.
The United States Trade Representative (USTR) office has blacklisted Vietnam's well-known markets in its 2020 review, for reasons of counterfeiting goods. Dong Xuan Market in Hanoi and Ben Thanh Market in Ho Chi Minh City have been named on the USTR blacklist.
E-commerce has assumed its crucial role in the time of Covid-19 pandemic, when people need to observe social distance for safety. This advanced method has basically changed shopping habits in the community and trading strategies of businesses. However, e-commerce has also been more increasingly used for illegal activities, and to some extent made consumers lose their confidence in this modern shopping channel.
The Vietnam Directorate of Market Surveillance under the Ministry of Industry and Trade has recently issued the official dispatch No.2344/TCQLTT-THKHTC instructing provincial market surveillance departments to strengthen control on pork smuggling.
For this Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on September 13 this year, many mooncake brands are increasing their output and varieties and focusing on environment-friendly packaging.
Only small fuel stations in Hanoi were hit by a shortage in RON95 gasoline supply while trading of RON95 gasoline was still normal at fuel stations of Petrolimex, reported by reporters of SGGP Newspaper.