Hundreds of tons of cinnamon essential oil are in stock and cannot be exported, the Pepper and Spice Association petitions the Government

The official dispatch clearly states that businesses exporting cinnamon essential oil in Lao Cai and Yen Bai are currently facing difficulties in exporting when all essential oils must apply regulations on medicinal trading. This is not suitable for production conditions, products and consumer markets as well as the small-scale processing capacity of Vietnam's cinnamon essential oil processing industry today. Therefore, it generates a lot of costs, requiring additional conditional business licenses while this is a value-added product, helping to exploit and maximize 100% of the value of cinnamon trees. Cinnamon essential oil products require processing technology and create added value for the product. They are salvaged products of cinnamon trees and pruned branches and leaves (production rate is 150 tons of leaves and branches for 1 tons of essential oils) and are not used as medicine but are only exported as raw materials for food and beverages according to import market ...