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3. DEVELOPMENT PROGRESS STATUS OF
STANDARD CONFORMI TY ASSESSMENT
Vietnam has three kinds of standards, namely National Standards, Ministerial Standards, and Company Standards
National Standards carried out by STAMEQ.
Ministerial Standards concerned to wood carried out by MARD
In
regards to wood and wood-based products, there are about 48 standards for wood-based products
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3. DEVELOPMENT PROGRESS STATUS OF
STANDARD CONFORMI TY ASSESSMENT
Status of implementation for each National Standard and Ministerial Standard: basically is voluntary
Review status
National Standard TCVN: Revised by STAMEQ but up to now, there is no standard was revised from date of issuing
Ministerial Standards: Some of standards were revised by Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development but most of
them should be development as soon as possible
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3. DEVELOPMENT PROGRESS STATUS OF
STANDARD CONFORMI TY ASSESSMENT
Existing and new national policy for national standard which may influence the Wood-
Based Sector
the general standards: such as definition and classifications, general characteristics, dimensions
will be aligned to standards of I SO
the other standards: in consideration and may be aligned to standard of US or EN depends on the
exporting markets
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4.
TECHNI CAL REGULATI ONS
Vietnam has no regulation for imported wood and wood-based
products but shall be applied the regulation for exported products
Decree from government: required that only wood from plant Forest and
import can be used for producing
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5.
OTHER RELEVANT I NFORMATI ON
As the exporter country of wood-based products, Vietnam has to fulfill demands of
exporting consumers
Vietnam has to import raw materials due to natural forest is limited and the plant forest is
not so much
EU is used to use the softwood but quite different in US market that usually using the
hardwood
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Third Meeting of the Product Working Group of ASEAN Consultative Committee on Standards and Conformance ACCSQ,
Bangkok – Thailand, 15-16 December 2005
Country Report: VIETNAM
1.
OVERVIEW OF WOOD-BASED INDUSTRIES
Total turnover of exporting wood and wood-based product in first 6 months of year 2005 has reached USD 721 million, increase up to 44.7 as same period of
year 2004. Total turnover of importing wood materials in first 6 months of year 2005 has reached USD 286 million, increase up to 31.8 as same period of year
2004.
As expecting in 2005, total turnover in exporting furniture is 1.5 billion USD. Total turnover has reached 1.3 billion USD in 11 months in 2005. Most of main
furniture products are for outdoor, indoor, and wardrobe, that in producing from kinds of imported wood such as: pine, beech, and rubber, rose-wood. In Vietnam,
until now, the government did not allow to using the wood from natural forest for making saw timber so that almost raw materials to produced furniture must be
imported.
Table 1: Output of Saw Timber in Vietnam
Year 1995 1999 2000 2001 2002
Output, m
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2,793 2,122 2,376 2,397 2,428
US is the biggest market for exporting wood-based products from Vietnam, the second is Japan and the following is EU countries such as Britain, France, and
Germany, etc
Most of the company factory import or export wood and wood-based products are located in southern of Vietnam such as Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong
Province, Dong Nai Province, etc.
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Table 2: The main markets for exporting wood-based products from Vietnam by May, 2005
Unit: USD
million No.
Market May, 2005
From Jan to May, 2005
From Jan to May, 2004
Difference, 1 US
39.644 191.312
87.218 119,35
2 Japan 15.592
87.542 65.444
33,77 3 Britain
8.609 58.182
53.182 9,40
4 Germany 3.924
36.487 24.910
46,48 5 France
3.356 29.978
21.480 39,56
6 Netherlands 2.685
23.989 16.842
42,44 7 China
7.193 22.811
7.811 192,03
8 Korea 3.817
19.172 12.876
48,90 9 Spain
2.598 15.261
9.538 60,00
10 Taiwan 2.802
15.156 22.513
-32,68 11 Australia
2.693 11.950
9.835 21,51
12 Belgium 1.720
10.108 8.607
17,44 13 Italia
849 8.645
5.266 64,15
14 Denmark 754
7.261 8.546
-15,03 15 Sweden
706 7.011
4.904 42,97
16 Canada 1.912
6.932 4.344
59,57 17 Greek
714 5.671
3.962 43,13
18 Holland 252
5.647 4.844
16,58
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