Directive No. 355-TTg on the harvesting and export of coffee

This directive requires provinces with coffee to strengthen strict management to prevent theft and smuggling of coffee beans and ensure full collection for the state's export plan. Measures include encouraging production, controlling transportation, conserving consumption, and strictly prohibiting illegal trade.

文号355-TTg
文件类型Directive
发布机关Central Account
签署人Lê Thanh Nghị — Phó Thủ tướng
更新02/07/2026
行业Industry and Trade
领域Import-Export
发布日期07/11/1979
生效日期22/11/1979
失效日期
状态In effect
✦ 智能摘要

This directive requires provinces with coffee to strengthen strict management to prevent theft and smuggling of coffee beans and ensure full collection for the state's export plan. Measures include encouraging production, controlling transportation, conserving consumption, and strictly prohibiting illegal trade.

适用范围

People's Committees of provinces growing coffee, coffee plantations, foreign trade sector, commerce sector, military forces, military police units, restaurants and beverage shops within the locality, and coffee stores.

要点

  • Workers at coffee plantations, cooperative members, and farming households are encouraged to intensify fertilization and full collection of coffee beans; private individuals are prohibited from trading coffee beans. Production units exceeding the plan may be rewarded.
  • Provinces with coffee must strictly control unauthorized transportation of coffee, not allowing private individuals to transport coffee out of the province, and military vehicles must also comply with this control.
  • Business operations of restaurants and beverage shops need to conserve coffee consumption to reserve it for state exports. The commerce sector should study measures to assist coffee stores in changing their business direction.
  • All forms of coffee trade in all provinces are strictly prohibited; confiscated coffee must be handed over to the foreign trade agency for export and may not be consumed internally.
  • Coffee used for hospitality and specified needs must be conserved and limited, recorded in the distribution quota of the state plan.

🌐 本文件的社会影响

  • Positive impact: Ensuring raw material supply for coffee exports, increasing income for farmers.
  • Negative impact: Management and strict control burden for production and transportation units; limiting business activities of restaurants and beverage shops.

❓ 常见问题

Are workers at coffee plantations rewarded when they exceed the plan?

For production units, if they strictly manage and deliver more than the planned amount of coffee for export, they will be rewarded according to the export incentive policy already issued.

Are private individuals allowed to trade coffee beans?

Private individuals are prohibited from trading coffee beans.

What actions should restaurants and beverage shops take to comply with this directive?

Business operations of restaurants and beverage shops need to conserve coffee consumption to reserve it for state exports.

How will confiscated coffee be handled?

Confiscated coffee must be handed over to the foreign trade agency for export and may not be consumed internally.

Are military vehicles subject to coffee transportation controls?

Military vehicles must also comply with this control.

全文

PRIME MINISTER

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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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Number: 355-TTg

Hanoi, November 7, 1979

 

DIRECTIVE

On Coffee Harvesting and Export

Coffee products are among the valuable agricultural export items.

To ensure the full harvest of coffee for the state's export plan, the Prime Minister requests provinces with coffee plantations and coffee-growing farms to strengthen management measures to prevent theft, smuggling, and illegal trading of coffee beans.

People's Committees of provinces growing coffee, central cities, and related sectors shall implement the following regulations.

1. Mobilize workers from coffee-growing farms, cooperative members, and farmers with coffee gardens to intensify cultivation and harvesting of coffee beans, including fallen beans, for sale to the state. Private individuals are prohibited from trading in coffee beans. For production units that exceed their export coffee plan due to strict management, rewards shall be given according to the export encouragement policy issued by Decision No. 227-CP dated June 21, 1979 of the Council of Ministers. The foreign trade sector needs to actively influence planting, fertilization, harvesting, and delivery of exported coffee.

2. Provinces with coffee must enforce inspection and control measures on illegal trading and transportation of coffee along routes and transport vehicles, including private cars; private individuals are not allowed to transport coffee beans out of the province. All types of military vehicles must also comply with these controls (when inspecting military vehicles, provinces need to coordinate with military police forces). The Ministry of National Defense orders military police forces in coffee-growing provinces to cooperate with local authorities in implementing this directive.

3. Provinces and centrally-administered cities should review the business activities of restaurants and cafes within their jurisdictions with the spirit of conserving coffee consumption to reserve it for state exports. The Commerce Department and localities should study measures to assist coffee shops in changing their business direction.

4. Strictly prohibit the sale of coffee in all forms (beans and powder) in all provinces and cities. Illegally traded coffee, including that of state officials and military personnel, will be confiscated. Confiscated coffee must be handed over to the foreign trade agency for export and may not be consumed internally.

5. For coffee used for hospitality and specified needs, utmost conservation and limitation are required, and such usage must be recorded in the national plan distribution index. The Ministry of Foreign Trade must direct the General Corporation for Import-Export Timber and Agricultural Products to distribute coffee for specified needs according to the national plan index.

Upon receipt of this directive, the Ministries of Agriculture, Foreign Trade, Internal Trade, Home Affairs, and National Defense, together with People's Committees of provinces and centrally-administered cities, shall immediately organize its implementation at necessary locations and disseminate it to relevant units for enforcement.

 

DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER

DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER

Le Thanh Nghia

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