JOINT CIRCULAR No. 9/VGNN-CNTP-TT stipulates the list of products and services for which the State Price Control Commission and the Ministry of Food Industry are authorized to decide prices.

CIRCULAR

JOINT DECREE OF THE NATIONAL PRICING COMMISSION AND THE MINISTRY OF FOOD INDUSTRY
NO. 9/VGNN-CNTP-DT, MAY 3, 1985, REGULATING THE LIST OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
WHICH ARE SUBJECT TO PRICING BY THE NATIONAL PRICING COMMISSION AND THE MINISTRY OF FOOD INDUSTRY
Pursuant to Decree No. 33-HĐBT dated February 27, 1984 of the Council of Ministers on the Regulations for Price Management, the joint decree hereby regulates the list of products subject to pricing by the National Pricing Commission and the Ministry of Food Industry as follows:

I. LIST OF PRODUCTS TO BE PRICED BY THE NATIONAL PRICING COMMISSION

(wholesale price for factories, wholesale price for industry)

- Sugar (including for export).

- Milk cans.

- Nam Dinh infant nutritional powder.

- Meat cans (including for export).

- Exported candies.

- Domestic consumption candies of Ha Hai food factories, Ha Chau noodle factories, and combined milk-coffee factories.

- Salt.

- Monosodium glutamate.

- Exported shrimp crackers.

- Exported vegetable oil.

- Various canned goods for export (except pickles, fresh fruits such as lychees, rambutans, mangosteens... produced from raw materials sourced by the Ministry without being included in the national plan indicators).

- Pure alcohol 100%.

- Wine (including for export).^°.

- Beer (including for export).

- Bottled water.

- Ice blocks.

- Roughly processed tea.

- Packaged tea (including for export), including both black and green tea.

- Cigarettes (including for export).

II. LIST OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES TO BE PRICED BY THE MINISTRY OF FOOD INDUSTRY

1. Purchase prices and factory wholesale prices for agricultural products:
a) Factory wholesale prices for various products produced by state-owned farms directly under the Ministry (excluding items listed in categories 1 and 2) sold to processing factories directly under the Ministry.

b) Contract purchase prices and agreed framework purchase prices for various agricultural products and specialties used to produce canned goods for export such as Thi Quai lychees, cucumbers, bananas, mangoes, rambutans, mangosteens, papayas, etc. Before determining the price, the Ministry must reach consensus with the People's Committee of the province.

For the agricultural products mentioned in point (b) above, if the central government does not allocate purchasing quotas and submission quotas, then the provincial People's Committee shall determine the price.

2. Processing fees: mechanical products and other products produced by factories directly under the Ministry. If these are processed at facilities managed by provinces, the Ministry must reach consensus with the provincial People's Committee before determining the price.

3. Factory wholesale prices, industrial wholesale prices, and wholesale prices for materials for products and services produced by factories directly under the Ministry for internal use within the industry.

4. Factory wholesale prices, industrial wholesale prices for products produced by factories directly under the Ministry:

- Glucose sugar (liquid and powder).

- Domestic consumption candies (excluding factories mentioned in Section I).

- Instant noodles.

- Nutritious flours (excluding nutritional powders mentioned in Section I).

- Soup stock powder.

- Domestic consumption shrimp crackers.

- Various canned goods produced from raw materials sourced by the Ministry that are not included in the national plan indicators.

- Coffee powder.

- Trial production products, new products with unstable production processes not included in the national plan indicators.

- By-products of production such as rice vermicelli, dipping sauce, etc.

- Waste products such as molasses, dried peanuts, etc.

5. Based on the material circulation discount rate for the entire industry set by the Council of Ministers, the specific material circulation discount rate for products within the industry will be determined.

During the course of production and business operations, if new products arise or changes in pricing authority are needed, the joint decree will continue to supplement accordingly.

5- On the basis of the discount for material circulation throughout the sector by the Council of Ministers, to decide on the discount for the specific material circulation products within the industry.

During the production and business process, if new products arise or it is necessary to change the pricing decision authority, the relevant ministries will continue to supplement.