Vietnam has been noted by Japanese firms as the most promising place in Asia to invest in 2020, with India and Southeast Asian countries dominating other top spots, Kyodo News cited a survey as released on January 8.
Vietnam hopes to have 3 843 products qualified for standards of One Commune One Product OCOP programmes by this year said deputy minister of agriculture and rural development Tran Thanh Nam at a conference in Hanoi on January 9.
At a reception in Hanoi on January 8 for Adam Boehler, first CEO of the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), head of the Economic Commission of the Party Central Committee Nguyen Van Binh affirmed that Vietnam always supports and facilitates the investment by US firms in general and the DFC in particular.
With China tightening import standards, Vietnam is working to increase its fruit and vegetable exports in alternative markets.
Local firms need to improve their product quality and design, in addition to strengthening trade promotion activities, in order to increase their competitiveness in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) market, according to industry insiders.
To facilitate the import-export activities of enterprises, the General Department of Vietnam Customs has actively solved problems relating to certificates of origin (C/O).
The country’s trade surplus reached a record high of US$9.9 billion in 2019, the highest level seen in the past four years.
The Vietnamese Permanent Mission to ASEAN has completed all preparations for the ASEAN Chairmanship Year 2020, a diplomat has said.
Việt Nam’s cashew sector aims to earn US$4 billion in export turnover in 2020. According to the Việt Nam Cashew Association (Vinacas), the sector will focus on deep processing, improving quality and diversifying products towards realising the goal.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam are paying an official visit to Myanmar from December 16-18 at the invitation of Myanmar President U Win Myint.
| The site is done with the technical support of the project BWTO |
