Ha Nam Customs officials inspect and supervise a company's warehouse. (Illustration photo: HN)
At the press conference on June 17, Deputy Director of the Customs Department Tran Duc Hung stated that in the first 6 months of 2025, under the direction of the Government, the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Finance , the Customs Department has basically completed the assigned programs, plans and tasks.
Sharing specific information about the work of the customs sector, Mr. Hung said that regarding the work of reorganizing the apparatus, the Customs Department has urgently and resolutely carried out assigned tasks and implemented Resolution 18-NQ/TW.
Accordingly, after only 15 days of Decision No. 382/QD-BTC of the Ministry of Finance taking effect (from March 1, 2025 to 0:00 on March 15, 2025), all work of arranging, organizing the apparatus and personnel of units within the Customs Department has completed the conversion to the new organizational model, including 12 units under the department and 20 regional customs branches, reducing 485 focal points out of the previous total of 902 units, equivalent to 53.77%.
Along with that, the Customs Department focused on implementing assigned tasks, closely following the direction of the four key resolutions of the Politburo , while continuing to facilitate import and export activities, making efforts to reform and modernize, achieving some outstanding results in the first half of the year.
Specifically, the Department has actively and proactively implemented bilateral and multilateral cooperation activities, and has been highly appreciated by Customs authorities of other countries for its remarkable contributions in the process of building the ASEAN Customs Development Strategy for the period 2026-2030; actively participating in building plans, strategies, and shaping policies of the World Customs Organization (WCO) in general and in the region in particular.
Deputy Director of the Customs Department Tran Duc Hung speaks at the meeting. (Photo: TRUNG HUNG)
In particular, the Customs representative at the WCO was re-elected as Chairman of the Standing Technical Committee for the 2025-2026 term, contributing to affirming the role and prestige of Vietnam Customs in the international arena.
In addition, the Customs Department is implementing a comprehensive action plan to innovate law-making and enforcement, and actively perfect the system of legal documents in the customs sector.
To create a legal basis for enterprises operating in the fields of science and technology, innovation, digital technology industry, and semiconductor industry, the Customs Department has reported to competent authorities to amend and supplement 3 articles of the Customs Law, complete 49 department-level projects, and amend relevant decrees and circulars to ensure consistency, feasibility, and transparency.
The customs sector continues to review, simplify, and reduce customs procedures, and reduce unnecessary documents in customs dossiers; upgrade the national single window system and the ASEAN single window system to ensure the connection of the goods clearance system, specialized inspection procedures, and licensing systems of ministries and sectors on the national single window system, ensuring the goal of paperless goods clearance...
In the long term, the industry will continue to accelerate the construction of a smart digital customs system to improve the effectiveness of state management of customs while maximizing trade facilitation.
Meeting scene. (Photo: NL)
Regarding the state budget collection, Mr. Hung said that from the beginning of 2025, the Customs Department issued Directive No. 499/CT-TCHQ dated February 4, 2025 to deploy key tasks, proposing many solutions to strive to complete the state budget collection task in 2025, in which specific tasks were assigned to each unit in the whole industry for implementation.
State budget revenue, accumulated from January 1 to June 15: VND 201,414 billion, equal to 49.0% of the estimate, equal to 42.9% of the target; up 10.7% over the same period in 2024.
Regarding import-export turnover, from the beginning of the year to June 15, 2025, the import-export value reached 390.38 billion USD, an increase of 15.4% over the same period in 2024; of which exports reached 197.38 billion USD, an increase of 13.7% and imports reached 193 billion USD, an increase of 17.1%. The trade balance had a surplus of 4.38 billion USD.
The Deputy Director of the Customs Department also informed that, as the standing agency of the Steering Committee 389 of the Ministry of Finance, the department has developed and implemented plans throughout the industry to inspect, monitor and control against illegal transshipment and origin fraud for imported, exported and transit goods; revised the Procedures for detecting, preventing and handling cases of illegal buying, selling and transporting of narcotics...
As a result, from December 15, 2024 to May 14, 2025, the entire industry detected, arrested and handled 6,453 cases of customs law violations, with an estimated value of violating goods of VND 11,294 billion. The amount of money collected for the state budget reached approximately VND 384.73 billion. The customs agency prosecuted 4 cases and transferred 41 cases to other agencies for prosecution.
During the same period, the customs sector presided over and coordinated with the police and border guards to detect and arrest 76 drug cases/83 subjects, of which the customs agency presided over 31 cases. The seized evidence included about 1,959 kg of various types of drugs.
Mr. Hung affirmed that to achieve the above results, the entire industry has made efforts to comprehensively deploy all aspects of work with the support and coordination of press agencies.
In addition, to provide information quickly, promptly, and more closely to people and businesses, the Customs Department has promoted communication activities on social platforms, built and operated Facebook social networking sites, Youtube, Tiktok, and Zalo channels officially from May 2025 to suit the communication orientation in the context of digital transformation, receiving support and dissemination from news agencies and the community.
To complete the political tasks in 2025, Deputy Director Tran Duc Hung said that in the last 6 months of the year, the Customs Department will continue to focus on implementing the tasks and solutions set out, specifically: Completing the system of legal documents on customs in the direction of reforming, simplifying administrative procedures, facilitating trade, and promoting goods export activities.
Research options to cut and simplify administrative procedures to ensure the achievement of the target of cutting at least 30% of administrative procedure processing time, at least 30% of business costs, and abolishing at least 30% of unnecessary business conditions.
Focus on digital transformation, application of science and technology; Resolutely deploy solutions, strive to complete the task of collecting the state budget in 2025; Facilitate trade, promote prevention and combat of smuggling, trade fraud, counterfeit goods, and drug prevention and combat.
Continue to deploy the arrangement and organization of the apparatus in accordance with the organization of administrative units at all levels; Build a regular, professional, modern customs force and maintain discipline in performing public duties.
Mr. Hung also affirmed that in the context of many difficulties and challenges, with heavy requirements and tasks, the coordination and active support from newspapers and radio stations in the coming time will help the propaganda work on customs activities to have positive and more effective changes, contributing to helping the industry successfully complete its assigned tasks.
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