Vietnam Trade Office works to boost exports to North Europe

The Vietnam Trade Office in Sweden and North Europe plans to take European food importers to Vietnam to buy goods this year while popularising more Vietnamese products in the area.
Vietnam Trade Office works to boost exports to North Europe ảnh 1Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam Trade Office in Sweden andNorth Europe plans to take European food importers to Vietnam to buy goods thisyear while popularising more Vietnamese products in the area.

Priority will still be given to online trade promotionactivities apart from holding weeks of Vietnamese goods and expos.

As Vietnam and Latvia will mark their 30th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic ties this year, the office will launchmajor activities in the European country, including holding the Vietnam –Latvia business forum in collaboration with the Ministry of Economics ofLatvia.

It will also conduct a scientific study on measures boostingVietnamese exports to North Europe in the context of the implementation of theEU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA).

Statistics showed that Vietnam’s export to North Europe,including Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland and Latvia, reached 1.86 billion USDin 2020. The figure hit 1.74 billion USD in ten months of 2021, up 0.04 percentannually. In recent years, Vietnamese rice has become a major currency earner fromthese markets.

Over the past two years, the office has published 14 e-booksabout each Northern European market and several outstanding Vietnamese goodssuch as farm produce, coffee, organic food, plastics and plastic products, andfootwear.

It has also used an English website to introduce Vietnam’sbusiness environment together with its companies and products to NorthernEuropean firms.

In particular, the Vietnam Business Association named VietnamesiskaHandelsförening I Sverige officially debuted on November 28, 2021 to create awide network of businesses for exchange.

Following its debut, the association and the office held anonline consultation seminar for Vietnamese farm produce exporters wishing toenter the North European market./. 

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