The world’s wooden interior décor market is predicted to grow at 3.5 percent in 2018 and continue expanding, providing opportunities to Vietnamese businesses to increase exports of the products.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam attended the opening ceremony of the 5th China – South Asia Expo (CAS Expo) and the 25th China Kunming Import and Export Commodities Fair in Kunming, the capital of China’s Yunnan province on June 14.
The former imperial city of Hue in central Thua Thien-Hue province is conducting a restoration project in a bid to save Dieu De, which was considered as a national pagoda under the Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945).
The world’s wooden interior décor market is predicted to grow 3.5 percent in 2018 and continue expanding, bringing chances for Vietnamese businesses to raise exports of the products.
Indonesia and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) renewed cooperation in support of forest governance and timber legality, according to a recently-released press statement.
Some 4.3 million EUR (5 million USD) will be funded by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (EuropeAid) for the project “Inclusive and sustainable clam and bamboo value chains development in Vietnam.”
Experts at the recent Vietnam-US Trade Forum in Ho Chi Minh City have suggested Vietnamese enterprises step up the export of processed goods of high added values to the US, apart from raw products.
Tran Quang Huy, 36, wearing protective clothing, loads activated charcoal onto a truck for delivery.
A tree that is believed to be 1,000 years old was recently discovered in Vu Quang National Park in central Ha Tinh province.
The customs office at Saigon Port under the Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department on May 3 seized an additional 3.3 tonnes of pangolin scales illegally imported from Africa.
Vietnam recorded a trade surplus of 3.1 billion USD as of April 15, 2018, according to the latest statistics of the General Department of Vietnam Customs.
Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh on April 25 met with representatives of Vietnamese in Australia’s Victoria state, who account for one third of the Vietnamese community in the country.
Vietnam’s exports account just 6 percent of the global timber and wooden furniture market which is estimated at 120 billion USD, said a local official.
Myanmar has earned more than 1.11 billion USD from rice and broken rice exports in the fiscal year 2017-2018, the Myanmar Rice Federation said on April 7.
Two illegal logging cases were discovered in the central province of Quang Nam’s Dong Giang and Nam Giang districts in March, with 77 big trees chopped down.
The southern province of Binh Duong recorded a trade surplus of more than 1.5 billion USD in the first quarter of 2018, according to the provincial Department of Trade and Industry.
Vietnam’s wood industry faces a quandary as bright export growth prospects are clouded by difficulties in finding necessary raw materials.
A seminar was held in Hanoi on March 29 to provide Vietnamese firms with the latest information about trade development opportunities in Israel.
