Cambodia to send agri products directly to Guangxi Province
Cambodia to send agri products directly to Guangxi Province
Cambodian associations inked three Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with the Chinese Customs Administration, Guangxi Province of China to facilitate the import of agricultural products to the province without passing through a third country.
The MoUs were signed on Thursday during the 21st CAEXPO RCEP Agricultural and Food Products Trade and Industry Cooperation Forum in Nanning, China.
Uon Silot, President of the Cashew Nut Association of Cambodia (CAC), told Khmer Times that his association, Khmer Swiftlet Association (KSA) and the Cambodia-China Cassava Alliance Association (CCCAA), signed MoUs to reduce some barriers of importing of Cambodian agricultural products into Guangxi Province.
“In the past, the import of fresh agricultural products from Cambodia to China was mandated by an approval of the Chinese Customs Administration. The process of inspections was so complex that some agricultural products were forced to cross through third country to be imported into China,” he said.
The signing of these MoUs will reduce barriers to importing Cambodian agricultural products into Guangxi Province.
“In the past, the Royal Government of Cambodia has made efforts to establish special economic zones and special bilateral conditions for the import of Cambodian products into China, but these MoUs complement it,” Silot emphasised.
The MoUs have two positive points: first, the flow of Cambodian agricultural products will directly reach the special economic zone of Guangxi Province and then reach various markets in China without certain customs conditions.
Second, it will open new avenues for further investment in the province to invest in the construction of agricultural processing plants in the existing special economic zones in Cambodia to import to China without the conditions and obligations of the customs administration in Guangxi.
Touch Bun Hour, Secretary of State of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, said the Ministry of Agriculture has started considering the budget required for future investment in domestic processing and promoting the formation of a modern community for cashew plantations.
