Page 1 of 2 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 2005.
As expecting in 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 imported.
Vietnam's wooden furniture export by year:
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
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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 wood-based 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 checking and
controling of Forest Product;
− 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;
