VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS GRADUATION THESIS COMPETITIVENESS OF VIETNAMESE SEAFOOD PRODUCTS FROM THE EUROPEAN - VIETNAM FREE TRADE AGREEMENT TO THE EU MARKET INSTRUCTOR GUIDES : TS. Nguyen Thi Huong Lan STUDENT IMPLEMENTATION : Nguyen Quoc Hung CLASS : QH-2020-E Economic CLC 1 STUDENT CODE : 20051069 SYSTEM : High Quality Program Hanoi, 2023 UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS Faculty of Political Economy GRADUATION THESIS COMPETITIVENESS OF VIETNAMESE SEAFOOD PRODUCTS FROM THE EUROPEAN - VIETNAM FREE TRADE AGREEMENT TO THE EU MARKET INSTRUCTOR GUIDES : TS. Nguyen Thi Huong Lan INSTRUCTOR REVIEW STUDENT IMPLEMENTATION : Nguyen Quoc Hung CLASS : QH-2020-E Economic CLC 1 STUDENT CODE : 20051069 SYSTEM : High Quality Program Hanoi, 2023 REASSURANCE Student Nguyen Quoc Hung would like to assure that the research topic "Improving the competitiveness of Vietnamese seafood to the EU market from the EVFTA trade agreement" is his research work conducted publicly under the scientific guidance of Dr. Nguyen Thi Huong Lan.
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Studies related to the impact of EVFTA implementation on export goods in general and Vietnam's seafood exports in Particular. The value of research works and research gaps. Theoretical and practical basis of seafoods, seafood industry, competitiveness Of S@afOOd. The concept and characteristics offisheries, seafood industry.
Position and role of the seafood industry in the national economy. Concepts and criteria for assessing the competitiveness of Seafood products 18 1. Factors affecting the competitiveness of exported seafood products. Experience of some countries in improving the competitiveness of seafood products in the EU market.
Chỉna's experience in improving the competitiveness of seafood exports to the EU 30 1. India's experience in improving the competitiveness of seafood exports to the EU 34 1. Lessons learned for Vietnam in improving the competitiveness of seafood Products exported to the EU .ccccccccccccccescscceesseceeeesseeecnsseeeeeseseesesssseesessuseseeneaaess 37 CHAPTER 2: CURRENT STATUS OF COMPETITIVENESS OF VIETNAMESE SEAFOOD PRODUCTS TO THE EU MARKET FROM THE VIETNAM-EU FREE TRADE AGREEMENÏT.-- SH TH HH Hư 39 2. Overview of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA).
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2G HS nS SH SH ng ra 81 CHAPTER 3: SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE THE COMPETITIVENESS OF VIETNAMESE SEAFOOD PRODUCTS FROM THE VIETNAM-EU FREE TRADE AGREEMENT TO THE EU MARKET. Potential for Vietnam's seafood development. Resource DOÍ€HẨHQÏ. SG Q ng ng vn ng vn ru 83 3.
Bases for determining orientations to improve the competitiveness of Vietnamese seafood products from the EVFTA trade agreement on the EU market 3. The impact of EVFTA on improving the competitiveness of seafood [24. Views and objectives of the Government on the development of Vietnam's seafood industry from the EVFTA Trade Agreement to 2030. Viewpoints proposing solutions to improve the competitiveness of Vietnamese seafood products from the EVFTA trade agreement on the EU market to 2030 90 3.
Solutions to improve the competitiveness of Vietnamese seafood products from the EVFTA trade agreement on the EU market to 2030. Some solutions to improve the quality of exported seafood, meeting EU SUAIATAS 00. Some solutions to develop sustainable aquaculture and fishing. Some solutions to enhance integration and cooperation in the export RY 200ORY) A [1| eeere 96 3.
Recommendations to the SÍQf€. Incentives for Seafood ASSOCIATIONS .S SSSSSSSs+siirsesseerres 99 CONCLUSION. HH HH ng HT HH TH HH kh 102 REEERENCES. HH HH HH HH Hệ 104 Vu) QEciiiiíáảảiiä.- 108 vii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS Acronyms Full name APPU Agifish Pure Pangasius Union ASC Aquacultural Stewardship Council ASEAN Association of Southeast Asia Nations BAP Best Aquaculture Practices CBI Centre for the Promotion of Import from Developing countries EC European Commission EU European Union EUROCHARM | European Champer of Commerce in Vietnam EUROSTAT EU European Statistical Information Service EVFTA EU — Vietnam Free Trade Agreement FAO The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations FTA Free Trade Agreement GAP Good Agricultural Organization of the United Nations GLOBAL GAP__| Global Good Agricultural Practice GMP Good Manufacturing Practices GSP Generalized Systems of Preferences viii HACCP Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point System ITC International Trade Center IUU Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing MFN Most favored nation MUTRAP European Trade Policy and Investment Support Project NAFIQAD The national Argo-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance Department OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development PCA The agreement on comprehensive partnership and cooperation RASFF The Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed RIA Research Institute for Aquaculture SPS Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measure TBT Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement VASEP Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers VIETFISH Vietnam Fisheries International Exhibition VINAFIS Vietnam Fisheries Society THE INSULT Vietnam Tuna Association WTO World Trade Organization WWE Worldwide Fund for Nature ix TABLE CATALOGUE Table 1.1: China's seafood exports to the EU by value, by item, 2015-2021 .2: India's seafood exports to the EU by value, by item, 2015-2021.1: Milestones of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement .2: Vietnam's seafood production, period 2015 - 2022.3: Seafood export turnover of some countries in the world .4: Vietnam's export turnover, by markef.5: Market share of Vietnam's seafood export turnover of some EU countries ¬.6: EU seafood exports, 2015 - 2022 .8: Markets for the supply of seafood products of the EU, period 2015 - 2022 ¬.
76 LIST OF DRAWINGS Figure 2.1: Seafood turnover exported to the EU market in the period of 2016 - 2022 ¬.2: Chart of the structure of seafood products exported to the EU, 2022.3: Seafood export to EU market, first 5 months of 2021 - 2022. The urgency of the topic Over the past years, the trade relationship between Vietnam and the EU has developed at a rapid pace and achieved remarkable results. Two-way trade has increased more than 15-fold, starting at $4.1 billion in 2000 and rising to nearly $62. Among them, exports of goods from Vietnam to the EU market have increased nearly 18 times, from 2.8 billion USD to 46.83 billion USD in 2022.
Vietnam's exports to the EU mainly focus on labor-intensive products, including seafood, assembled electronics/phones, footwear, textiles and garments, coffee and furniture. Among these items, seafood is particularly noteworthy. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Vietnam is considered one of the 20 countries with the largest fishing output in the world, ranking third in terms of output and export turnover. The fisheries industry used to be small and underdeveloped but has now become one of the country's leading economic sectors, with a significant growth rate.
This sector accounts for an increasingly large proportion of GDP and plays an important role in the national economy. Vietnam's seafood development strategy to 2030 and vision to 2045 have clearly defined that the Seafood economy will contribute 30-35% to GDP in the agriculture- forestry-seafood sector, with the growth rate of seafood production value expected to reach 3. It is expected that the total domestic seafood production will reach 9.8 million tons, of which aquaculture production is 7.0 million tons and fishing output is 2. It is forecasted that the value of seafood export turnover may reach 14-16 billion USD.
The seafood sector's vision to 2045 is to become a modern, sustainable trade and economic sector, with effective management and the use of advanced technology. Vietnam aspires to become the world's leading seafood processing center and hold an important position in the agricultural and marine economic structure. According to data from the International Trade Organization (ITC), Vietnam's seafood 2 export turnover has continuously increased by an average of 2.5% per year in the period of 2015-2022. The EU market plays an important role in global seafood consumption, consuming about 10% of the world's seafood products and is one of the important export markets for Vietnam.
However, this is a fastidious market that requires high quality, so the export of seafood here has recently undergone many fluctuations. In 2020, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, seafood export turnover to the EU decreased to 1.22 billion USD, down 6% compared to 2019, ranking third among the 4 main markets (after the US reached 1.6 billion USD, Japan reached 1.4 billion USD and China reached 1. However, in 2021, despite the heavy impact from the Covid-19 epidemic on production and export, Vietnam's seafood export turnover has increased dramatically to over 8.9 billion USD, up 6% compared to 2020. Particularly, seafood exports to the EU market reached over 1 billion USD, up 12% compared to 2020, accounting for 12% of Vietnam's seafood export market share, ranking in third place, after the United States and China (VASEP, 2022).