Visitors take a look at products on display at the pavilion of Vietnam in L’Artigiano in Fiera 2017. (Photo: VNA)Rome (VNA) – Some 30 Vietnameseenterprises have brought a variety of traditional handicrafts to L’Artigiano inFiera 2017, an international craft exhibition running in Milan, Italy fromDecember 2-10.
Popular Vietnamese hand-crafted items likebrocade garments and clothing, rattan- and bamboo-made furniture, lacquer paintings,souvenirs, and farm produces, alongside the country’s traditional foods are ondisplay at Vietnam’s pavilion at the fair.
Vietnam launched its 1,500-sq.m pavilion withan opening ceremony featuring lion dances and traditional “Vovinam” martialarts.
At the pavilion of Vietnam in L’Artigiano in Fiera 2017. (Photo: VNA)Speaking at the event, Vietnamese TradeCounsellor in Italy Nguyen Duc Thanh said the 22nd edition of theevent gathers more than 3,000 businesses from more than 100 countries andterritories. It provides an opportunity for Vietnamese firms to learn the demandsof foreign markets, promote their products, learn from others’ experience inproduction and expand networks of overseas consumers, he noted.
Thanh also noted bilateral relations betweenVietnam and Italy have seen significant progress over the past four decadesafter the two countries established diplomatic ties in 1973. Two-way trade rosemore than four-fold from 1.13 billion USD in 2006 to 4.7 billion USD last year,the trade counsellor said.
Trade revenue between the two countriesexceeded 3.76 billion USD in the first ten months of 2017 with Vietnam’sexports to Italy hitting 2.4 billion USD. Vietnam exported about 4.5 millionUSD worth of handicraft products, such as rattan- and bamboo-made items, toItaly during the period while Vietnam’s shipments of garments and clothing exceeded186.8 million USD, he added.
L’Artigiano in Fiera, the world’s biggestinternational handicraft trade fair, was first held in Italy in 1996.-VNA
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