At the end of the year, especially during the Lunar New Year, people's consumption and shopping needs increase. To ensure a stable market, avoid shortages and price hikes, many supermarkets, shopping centers, businesses and business households in the province have stockpiled goods and prepared goods to meet people's shopping needs before, during and after the Lunar New Year.
In order to stabilize the market, prevent shortages, price hikes, and ensure consumer rights, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh , Head of the National Steering Committee against smuggling, trade fraud, and counterfeit goods (Steering Committee 389) issued Document No. 133/KH-BCĐ389 promulgating the Plan for the peak period against smuggling, trade fraud, and counterfeit goods before, during, and after the Lunar New Year 2025.
In particular, the Ministry of Industry and Trade is required to direct the Department of Industry and Trade of provinces and centrally-run cities to closely monitor market developments, supply and demand of essential goods, especially those with high demand or high price fluctuations in the area in recent times, to proactively develop plans or propose to competent authorities measures to ensure balance of supply and demand, stabilize the market, and prevent hoarding, shortages, and disruptions in goods sources, causing sudden price increases during the end of the year and Lunar New Year.
Market management forces focus on strengthening market inspection and control and strictly handling violations of speculation, price listing, e-commerce, trading, transporting, storing prohibited goods, smuggled goods, goods of unknown origin, counterfeit goods, goods infringing intellectual property, poor quality goods, etc.
The Steering Committee 389 of localities directs units, functional forces, and local authorities at all levels to grasp the situation in their management areas, strengthen inspection and control work, and prevent the emergence of warehouses, yards, and transit points for smuggled goods, counterfeit goods, poor quality goods, goods that violate intellectual property rights, and activities that take advantage of the e-commerce environment for smuggling, trade fraud, and counterfeit goods...
Implementing the direction of the Deputy Prime Minister , in order to meet the consumption needs of people during the Lunar New Year 2025, the industry and trade sector and enterprises nationwide are actively stockpiling abundant goods and stable prices. The Ministry of Industry and Trade has directed the Departments of Industry and Trade of provinces, cities, corporations, general companies, companies, and industry associations to promptly develop production and business plans, supply plans, and handle unusual fluctuations in the market, while strengthening market inspection and control, and handling administrative violations of goods that are essential goods with high consumer demand during the end of the year and Lunar New Year. In particular, the authorities closely monitor the trading activities of gasoline, liquefied petroleum gas, and prevent speculation, hoarding, and unreasonable price increases; ensuring market stability to serve the people's Tet needs.
For Quang Ninh, right from the beginning of the fourth quarter of 2024, supermarkets, shopping malls, businesses, small traders, and business households have developed plans and prepared goods for the last months of the year and the Lunar New Year with a total reserve of nearly 1,300 billion VND, for essential goods for the New Year, confectionery, fresh food, canned food, beer, wine, etc. All goods are of good quality, clear origin, diverse, beautiful, and eye-catching designs. At the same time, to ensure supply and demand, stabilize the market, prevent hoarding, and price fever when people's consumption demand increases, the work of fighting smuggling, trade fraud, and counterfeit goods has also been actively implemented by functional agencies in the province before, during and after the Lunar New Year to ensure that there are no hot spots, absolutely no speculation, and no abnormal price increases.
With the participation of relevant authorities in ensuring the supply of goods, stabilizing the market, and fighting against counterfeit and fake goods, it will contribute to strengthening the protection of consumer rights before, during and after Tet, bringing every family a joyful and exciting Tet.
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