An 08 Report Vietnam

Fourth Meeting of the Product Working Group of
THE ASEAN Consultative COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDS AND QUALITY
Ho Chi Minh City, 22-23 August 2006

Country Report: VIETNAM

1. OVERVIEW OF WOOD-BASED INDUSTRIES

Total turnover of exporting of wood and wood-based
product in first 6 months of year 2006 has reached USD
918 million USD, increase up to 27.3% as same period
of year 2005. Total turnover of importing wood
materials in first 6 months of year 2006 has reached
USD 324 million USD, increase up to 13.2% as same
period
of year in
2005.
As expecting
2006, total turnover in exporting
furniture is 2.0 billion USD. 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
Vietnam's
wooden furniture export by year:
imported.
Year

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004


2005

Value,
$Mil.

200

300

400

560

1,100

1,500

Standards will be submitted to MARD for endorsement
in 2006:
- (ISO

4473:
1988).
Coniferous
and
broadleaved tree saw logs - Visible
defects - Classification;
- (ISO
4474:
1988).
Coniferous
and
broadleaved tree saw logs - Visible
defects - Terms and definitions;
- (ISO 8275: 1985). Dorset's - Vertical
load test;
- (ISO 6445: 1989). Dorset's - Test of
behavior between two different climates;
-

(ISO 8273: 1985). Dorset's - Standard

atmospheres for testing the performance
of doors and dorset's placed between two
different climates;
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(ISO
6443:
1980).
Door
leaves
Measurement of dimensions and of defects
of square ness.

2. TECHNICAL REGULATIONS
Vietnam has no regulation for imported wood and woodbased products but shall be applied the regulation for
exported products depending on the importing country
requirements.
Name of regulation in the wood-based sector, including

the status and the issuant institutions:
− Title of TR: Regulation for
controling of Forest Product;

checking

and

− TR Decree: 59/2005/QD-BNN;
− Effective date: December 2005;
− Scope of Product: Forest products;
− Brief
of
TR:
Procedure
for
checking,
controling and transporting, keeping and
processing of Forest Products in Vietnam;
− Issued by: MARD on October 10, 2005.


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