Vietnam, Oman seek ways to boost economic cooperation
The third meeting of the Vietnam-Oman Joint Committee on Economic and Technical Cooperation took place in Hanoi on March 23, focusing on reviewing the implementation of cooperation agreements reached at the previous meeting and seeking measures to further promote bilateral affiliation in the future.
Omani Minister of Commerce and Ali bin Masoud Al Sunaidy |
The two countries will enhance cooperation between their Chambers of Commerce and Industry to encourage business communities of both sides to increase delegation exchanges as well as trade, investment promotion activities.
At the same time, they will share information to update their businesses on trade policies as well as import-export regulations, market demand, business opportunities and projects in each country.
Meanwhile, they will consider the possibility of expanding cooperation in areas of oil and gas, finance, banking, labour, agriculture, aquaculture, transport, culture, sport and tourism.
Concluding the event, the two ministers signed a minute of the meeting.
Statistics showed that in 2017, trade between Vietnam and Oman reached US$116.7 million, up 122.2% over 2016. Vietnam exports were US$40.9 million, up 74%, mostly from cellphones and spare parts, machines and equipment, automobile parts, and agricultural products.
Meanwhile, the country imported US$75.8 million worth of products from the Middle-East country, a rise of 161 percent over the previous year, mostly metals, ore and minerals, plastic materials, animal feed and materials.
So far, Oman has run five investment products in Vietnam with total registered capital of nearly US$340 million.