Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang has stressed five maintasks of Vietnamese trade counsellors and minister-counsellors todevelop overseas markets at a meeting with trade counsellors in Hanoi onDecember 16.
Accordingly, together with strengthening tradepromotion and actively participating in trade promotion programmes inthe host countries, the trade counsellors have to intensify Vietnam’sindustrial promotion to attract investment in ongoing projects or thoseabout to be implemented in the country.
They also have tofulfil their tasks as staff of a Vietnamese trade representative officeabroad, and learn about the models of importers in the host countriesbefore introducing the models to domestic businesses to help them changetheir appropriate products.
Minister Hoang said that Vietnam’stotal export turnover for 2013 is about 132 billion USD, up 15.3percent from the previous year, surpassing the target of 126.1 billionUSD set by the National Assembly.
Vietnamese products are now available in nearly 200 countries and territories.
Despite declining prices of several commodities and the narrowing ofseveral markets, many major exports of Vietnam still exceed the settarget, including garments and textiles, footwear, wood and woodproducts, computers and electronic products, Hoang said.
Theminister noted that in the time to come, the ministry will intensify theprocess of transferring the industrial product structure to improveadded value and ensure quality and safety requirements.
Priority will also be given to mobilising all resources to invest in projects to produce more goods for export.
He added that the ministry will also support businesses to help themmake full use of benefits brought by bilateral economic agreements andthe free trade area agreement between ASEAN and other countries to boostexports.-VNA
Accordingly, together with strengthening tradepromotion and actively participating in trade promotion programmes inthe host countries, the trade counsellors have to intensify Vietnam’sindustrial promotion to attract investment in ongoing projects or thoseabout to be implemented in the country.
They also have tofulfil their tasks as staff of a Vietnamese trade representative officeabroad, and learn about the models of importers in the host countriesbefore introducing the models to domestic businesses to help them changetheir appropriate products.
Minister Hoang said that Vietnam’stotal export turnover for 2013 is about 132 billion USD, up 15.3percent from the previous year, surpassing the target of 126.1 billionUSD set by the National Assembly.
Vietnamese products are now available in nearly 200 countries and territories.
Despite declining prices of several commodities and the narrowing ofseveral markets, many major exports of Vietnam still exceed the settarget, including garments and textiles, footwear, wood and woodproducts, computers and electronic products, Hoang said.
Theminister noted that in the time to come, the ministry will intensify theprocess of transferring the industrial product structure to improveadded value and ensure quality and safety requirements.
Priority will also be given to mobilising all resources to invest in projects to produce more goods for export.
He added that the ministry will also support businesses to help themmake full use of benefits brought by bilateral economic agreements andthe free trade area agreement between ASEAN and other countries to boostexports.-VNA
