The Market Management Bureau enhanced commercial fraud inspection and handlings

The quality of the helmets was tested

    Although there was a fluctuation in prices for a long time in 2008, the market management showed positive results. The units under the Market Management Bureau collaborated closely with police forces, Bureau for Standards, Metrology and Quality (Department of Science and Technology) and the authorities of all levels in combating smugglings, fake and shoddy goods and commercial frauds. In 2008, the provincial Market Management Bureau inspected 3,469 cases, handled 3,401 violation cases and handed VND5.17 billion including VND4.6 billion of administrative fines and VND563 million from selling confiscated goods over to the State budget.

    Here are some typical cases: Duy Thinh Co. Ltd and Yen Son Services Co. Ltd transported and dealed in imitation motorcycles. The Mobile Market Management Team under Dong Nai Market Management Bureau cooperated with the provincial police’s traffic patrol teams in searching the means of transport from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City and discovered that these two companies transported and dealed in 254 motorcycles with the imitations of the designs and brands of Kawasaki and Honda Vietnam. These two violation cases were handled. VND452 million in fines were handed over to the State budget and all the plastic components with the violations of the industrial design rights were confiscated. Besides, 218 motorcycle engine covers were disassembled and confiscated and 100 decals were confiscated, too. On this occasion, Dong Nai People's Committee commended and gave some individuals in the mobile market management team and all the team unexpected awards.

    Similarly, Market Management Team 7 (of Xuan Loc district) searched the car bearing the license plate 49H-1235 and discovered that it transported 238 bags of Viet An NPK fertilizer (approximately 11,900 kilos) of Viet An Fertilizer Manufacturing and Trading Co. Ltd (of Binh Duong province) and 38 bags of Viet My NPK fertilizer (approximately 1,900 kilos) of Viet My Technological Investment and Development Joint-stock Company (of Binh Duong province). These goods had no invoices and shipping documents. The test results showed these fertilizers failed to satisfy their own quality standards. The team suggested that the People's Committee of the district fine these two companies VND26 million and forfeit their concerned quality standard certificates.

Import and export goods via Dong Nai Port

    Recently, Market Management Team 10 (of Nhon Trach district) collaborated with the dental clinic and the police of the district in inspecting alcohol manufacturing factories of Mr Nguyen Van Duyen in Hamlet 3, Phu Thach commune, Nhon Trach district. The team inspected the businesses manufacturing and trading in a wide variety of alcohols: 1,890 bottles of Hai Anh Quang banana wine (500 ml), 40,000 liters of alcohol in the holding tanks, 1,000 kilos of spoiled alcohol feedstock, 550 plastic empty bottles and 39,074 labels of different types. This business had neither a quality registration certificate nor alcohol manufacturing and trading permits. It used the workers who did not have health check-ups and take a required course on food safety and hygiene. The alcohol samples showed that 2900 liters had more than the allowed methanol content. This business was fined VND27 million and its spoiled feedstock, 2900 liters of alcohol and nearly 40,000 labels were confiscated.

    2008 was the year when there were considerable fluctuations in prices and goods on the market, especially the fluctuations in necessary goods. Some necessities saw a dramatic increase in prices due to many causes: the impact of the global market, relative scarcity... especially a sharp increase in the prices of some kinds of rice in mid-2008. The market management team actively made plans, kept an eye on its precincts, enhanced inspection and patrol, renewed the way it controlled and monitored the market and paid a special attention to the market inspection to make sure the existence of the price posting and fair selling prices of the necessary goods.

    The Market Management Bureau’s efforts have contributed to stabilizing the market and facilitating all economic components’ participation in developing markets and serving the public’s demands for production, business, life and consumption.

    The Bureau has set itself the main tasks in 2009, which are to focus on combating commercial frauds, fake goods and violations of the industrial property rights and especially to focus on collaborating with the functional agencies in observing the regulations on trading in, transporting and slaughtering domestic animals, food safety and hygiene and preventing the pandemic in animals and poultry... It is required to reach at least 95% of the violation cases of the total inspected cases.

(Reported by Thu Hoai, Translated by Duy Minh)