Room for Vietnam’s exports to Eurasia remains huge
Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Industry and Trade’s
Department of European – American Markets held a trade cooperation forum with Eurasian
partners both online and offline on December 22.
Speaking at the event, Director of the department Ta Hoang Linh
described Eurasia as a huge market with 28 countries which are home to a
population of over 410 million people and a gross domestic product of over 3.3
trillion USD.
Despite COVID-19 pandemic, two-way trade between Vietnam and
Eurasia still hit 12.7 billion USD in 11 months of this year, up 13.1 percent
annually. Of the figure, 8.6 billion USD was Vietnam’s export which remained
modest compared to their import demand of more than 1.34 trillion USD, or only
0.66 percent of the market share, showing that room for Vietnam’s exports
remains huge.
As of the late November, 18 out of 28 regional countries
invested in 319 projects worth nearly 1.78 billion USD in Vietnam, or 0.44
percent of the total foreign direct investment in the country.
Meanwhile, Vietnam poured around 2.82 billion USD in 37 projects
in nine regional nations as of the late September. Russia was the biggest
recipient of Vietnamese investment with 15 projects valued at 2.8 billion USD.
Several speakers pointed out the benefit of goods transportation
via Asia-Europe railway route and seaports in Eastern Europe such as Slovenia,
Bulgaria and Romania and shared information about e-commerce sites in these
markets to help Vietnamese firms seek export opportunities.
Questions regarding foreign countries’ import and investment
attraction policies were answered at the event. Market demands and opportunities
from free trade agreements were also updated.
Linh affirmed that the ministry will continue partnering with
business community to boost trade and investment activities between Vietnam and
Europe-America and Asia-Europe in particular./.