The Ministry of Industry and Trade coordinated with the HCM City People''s Committee to organise the Việt Nam-US Trade Forum on September 13 in HCM City.
Trade between Việt Nam and the US nations will flourish in the second half of this year, said the Counselor and Head of the Việt Nam Commercial Office in the US.
The annual Viet Nam-US Trade Forum has heard that clean energy, infrastructure, healthcare, and digital economy are among the areas in which the two nations can expand trade ties in future.
The impressive figure made the US become the second trade partner with import-export turnover with Viet nam reaching the $100 billion mark after China.
Viet Nam considers the US among the most important and comprehensive trade partners, said deputy minister of industry and trade Do Thang Hai at the 2021 Viet Nam-US Trade Forum held yesterday in Ha Noi.
Trade has become a pillar of the growing bilateral relationship between Viet Nam and the US, Vice Chairman of the Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) Hoang Quang Phong said on Tuesday.
The relations between Viet Nam and the US would continue to grow stably in the future, with economic and trade cooperation the centre and key momentum of bilateral ties, Vietnamese and US officials said.
Vietnamese and US firms shared ways to cope with the coronavirus crisis and to overcome immense challenges inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic during an online trade exchange event on Wednesday.
An interactive video conference on “Promoting Viet Nam - US Trade in Footwear Post COVID-19” took place in Washington DC on May 27 (US time) to connect Vietnamese producers and American distributors and retailers.
Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer met as co-chairs of the Việt Nam-US Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) Council on May 30.