Stable input costs, businesses can rest assured production

The business trend of enterprises in the first quarter of the year had many positive changes with 61.5% of enterprises assessing their business and production situation to be stable and better than last year.

The business trend of enterprises in the first quarter has many positive changes. Illustration: VNA

According to the General Statistics Office, the business trend of enterprises in the first quarter of the year had many positive changes with 61.5% of enterprises assessing their business and production situation to be stable and better than in the fourth quarter. 2022. It is expected that in the second quarter of 2023, 44.1% of enterprises will evaluate the trend to be better compared to the first quarter of 2023; 35.3% of enterprises think that the production and business situation will be stable and 20.6% of enterprises forecast more difficulties.

These positive signs are thanks to a number of macroeconomic management policies that the Government and ministries and sectors have implemented, which are gradually promoting their effectiveness in practice. The VNA has received comments from a number of manufacturing enterprises in many fields and industries.

* Mr. Pham Thai Binh, General Director of Trung An High-tech Agriculture Joint Stock Company:  Currently, the situation of rice production and export is on a steady and growing momentum. With the market expansion strategy, in 2023, Trung An will focus on many solutions to promote trade promotion, increase export orders and access some new markets, even Africa. .

The prospect is very reasonable because rice is now an essential food item that every country needs, while the supply of rice in many countries is shrinking due to climate change. Trung An has signed and delivered about 30,000 tons of rice in the first quarter of 2023 to markets such as Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea.
The big advantage of enterprises in the current market is that thanks to the gradually stabilizing transportation costs, product competitiveness has also improved, even surpassing competitors in many countries. other family.

Transport service providers have coordinated quite smoothly, regularly making announcements and very specific price adjustments every month, so logistics is no longer an obstacle or great pressure as before. This.

It is also mainly thanks to the policy of controlling petrol and fuel prices that the Government and the Ministry of Finance are implementing. This is very valuable for export enterprises like Trung An.

* Mr. Dao Cong Lang, Representative of An Binh Garment Export Joint Stock Company:  As a labor-intensive unit, businesses are also affected by human resources at the beginning of the year. In order to increase production and business efficiency, businesses are currently focusing on many market optimization solutions. Accordingly, including diversifying products and increasing labor efficiency.

Although, at present, market movements and input costs for garment production tend to decrease slightly by about 10%, helping to reduce product prices by 30%, but difficulties in lack of new orders is still a big challenge.

Some State management agencies also have plans to support enterprises in trade promotion, however, most of them still rely on the initiative and self-reliance of enterprises as the basis.

An Binh is focusing maximum resources to promote exploitation of some newly opened markets such as Africa and the Middle East. This year's growth is expected to increase to 16% compared to 2022.

Vietnamese enterprises sewing goods for export. Photo: VNA

* Mr. Phung Xuan Minh, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Saigon Ratings:  Saigon Ratings has forecasted that the main factors that will affect inflation in 2023 are the roadmap for an upward adjustment according to the market prices of goods and services managed by the State. management (education, health, electricity); the expected increase in electricity price in the near future will also put pressure on the general price level; recovery support programs accelerate the disbursement of treasury deposits in the banking system; The high interest rate level in 2022 increases input costs of many goods and services is still a challenge and the process of increasing the base salary for cadres, civil servants and public employees starts from January 1. 7/2023.
However, the world economic outlook is not very optimistic, making it difficult for global inflation to increase sharply, which also helps to reduce pressure from the "inflation import" channel, creating a supporting factor to control inflation in 2023. of Vietnam. In addition, the Government's consistency in controlling inflation and exchange rate will also continue to help anchor inflation expectations and support inflation control in 2023.

In the financial-monetary market, the demand for loans of businesses, after the economy showed good signs of recovery, created significant upward pressure on lending rates since the end of 2022. .

According to Saigon Ratings, 2023 is expected to continue to be a difficult year in terms of liquidity for the banking system. Loans are forecasted to be stable again in 2023 with an average decrease of about 1% from now until the end of the year and the exchange rate

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