The fair attracted nearly 1,000 enterprises from over 120 countries and territories across the globe.
Accordingto the Deputy President of Vietnam ’s Seafood Exporters and Producers(VASEP) Association, Nguyen Huu Dung, this was the 14th time thatVietnamese enterprises have exhibited at a seafood fair in the US .
Theevent provided Vietnamese enterprises with the opportunity to meet newpotential importers and partners from across the US .
TheVietnamese companies acknowledged that they have to improve the qualityof their workforce and processing operations as well as law knowledge sothey can avoid anti-dumping tariffs imposed by the US Department ofCommerce.
On the sidelines of the exhibition, the VietnameseEmbassy’s commercial office held a seminar for the Vietnameseparticipants to learn about US laws and regulations, includinganti-dumping mechanisms and ways of promoting their exports withseveral US leading legal consultancy firms.
Vietnam now ranks 6 th in seafood exporters to the US , recording an export turnover of more than 1 billion USD in 2011.
TheUS is now Vietnam ’s second largest importer of seafood after theEU and is expected to become the biggest in the near future.-VNA