The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) on Friday announced that 99.3 per cent of goods sold by Mumuso Vietnam Company Limited were imported from China.
99.3 per cent of goods sold by Mumuso Vietnam Company Limited were imported from China.
The investigation was carried out under Minister Tran Tuan Anh's request on the company’s trade activities, production, fake goods trading, competition and protecting customers’ rights.
The investigation found signs of legal violations by providing inadequate, wrong and inexact information to customers.
According to the investigation's results, Mumuso Vietnam sold 2,273 products in five main areas including beauty, healthcare, fashion accessories, office and home appliances between 2016 to May 31, 2018, in Vietnam.
The company said that their products originated from South Korea but they did not provide documents clarifying the accuracy of the information, especially those relating to the origins of goods and production technologies, the ministry said.
In addition, the company had signs of violating laws on competition as its advertisements caused misunderstanding about the origin of their products, creating unfair competition.
It used some public advertisements in its store chain with the words Mumuso and Korea, implying to customers the brand is from South Korea.
The investigation's results also revealed that Mumuso violated legal regulations on goods labelling. Some products have labels in foreign languages and sub-labels in Vietnamese. However, the contents did not match import documents.
The company was also discovered to have violations in product announcement rules. The contents of components inscribed on sub-labels did not conform with the content of ingredients in its announcement. The check-up team withdrew the cosmetics from the market and sent the company’s six cosmetic samples to the Institute of Drug Quality Control for testing.
In addition, the company showed signs of violations on e-commerce as it did not provide exact information about its website to the ministry as well as other laws on trade. Specifically, it did not complete procedures relating to franchising of the Mumusokr trademark. It also did not register its business location and announcements on promotional programmes with authorities.
Earlier, on May 10, the ministry received documents from the South Korean Business Association asking for an inspection into Mumuso Vietnam.