Vietnamese seafood companies think that it is necessary to use “legal instruments” to settle the ethoxyquin problem, saying that only when the problem is settled, will Vietnam be able to boost shrimp exports.
Le Van Quang, President and General Director of Minh Phu Seafood Group, said that Vietnam needs to take “stronger measures” to pave the way for shrimp products to enter the Japanese market, emphasizing that taking legal procedures against the unreasonable barrier set up by the import country is a solution for consideration.??
“I think taking legal proceedings is the best choice in this case. If we do not sue them, more and more countries would install barriers and raise the ethoxyquin barriers to higher levels, which makes Vietnam impossible to overcome them,” Quang said.??
He complained that the technical barriers raised by importing countries have made the production costs of Vietnamese shrimp products much higher than that of other exporting countries.??
Minh Phu Group, for example, has to pay tens of thousands of US dollars for every examination campaign.