Many Singaporean firms are interested in investing in food, agriculture, and dining services in Việt Nam as they forecast that these sectors will thrive in the near future amidst broader ASEAN integration.
Economic experts have spoken highly of the Government’s range of measures, set out in 2014’s Resolution 19, which are aimed at improving the business climate and enhancing the competitiveness of the Vietnamese economy.
Nakagawa Mikihisa, a representative of the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO), said this at a meeting held in HCM City on March 14. The meeting discussed solutions on dealing with difficulties in food trade activities of Japanese companies in Việt Nam.
The national trade promotion programme in 2018 will support key sectors, markets and prioritise the development of brand names of some key products every year.
A grand welcome ceremony with cannon salute was held for Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc at the Parliament House on Capitol Hill in Canberra, Australia, on March 15.
Việt Nam has urged the US government to consider excluding Vietnamese products from its new announcement on tariff measures for imported steel and aluminium. Chu Đức Khải, Vice Chairman and General Secretary of the Vietnam Steel Association (VSA), talks to Việt Nam News reporter Tạ Thu Giang about the challenges faced by Vietnamese steel makers after the decision.
The US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will inspect Việt Nam’s catfish quality control system in the next few months, according the National Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (NAFIQAD).
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation always attaches importance to the traditional ties with the Communist Party of Việt Nam and wants to play an active role in developing bilateral relations in investment, trade, banking-finance, and tourism.
Compared to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, Việt Nam ranks third in population after Indonesia and the Philippines but its automobile production output ranks fifth among the five countries, she said.
In a reply to a written question in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, C R Chaudhary said India is hosting this meeting with the objective of facilitating an exchange of views on various issues and challenges relating to multilateral trading system.
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