Trade counselors to talk with southern local government officials and businesses
VOV.VN - Trade counsellors will talk with local government officials and businesses from southern Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City on February 26 within the framework of the Commercial Counsellors' Conference 2018 held by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT).
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The Commercial Counsellors' Conference 2018 aims to enhance external economic activities, foreign market expansion and trade promotion according to Party guidelines and State laws, particularly the Law on Vietnamese Representative Offices Abroad for the 2017-2020 tenure regarding renewing, improving the quality of and fine-tuning trade offices as well as strengthening coordination between the MOIT and other ministries, departments and localities in the context of comprehensive international economic integration.
In the framework of the conference, the trade counsellors will discuss with southern local officials and businesses measures to intensify collaboration between trade offices and localities to remove difficulties for businesses in import and export activities and market development as well as exchanging information on foreign markets and trade opportunities.
The Commercial Counsellors' Conference 2018 was held in Hanoi on February 7 with the participation of Vietnamese counsellors from 57 trade offices and seven branches abroad together with representatives from ministries and enterprises.
Addressing the conference, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc appreciated contributions of trade consellors and trade offices to promoting the country’s exports, especially helping special agricultural products enter foreign markets such as shrimp, mangoes, and dragon fruit to Australia, processed chicken, red flesh dragon fruit and star-apples to Japan, mangoes, lychees, longans, and rambutants to Taiwan, and longans and lychees to Thailand.
