HCM City (VNA) – The Ho Chi MinhCity People’s Committee has approved a plan to organise a week of Vietnamesegoods in Thailand in October.
The municipal Department of Industry andTrade will hold the event in Bangkok from October 23 to 27, featuring 300stalls.
The week will focus on promoting keyproducts of the southern economic hub that have become popular in Thailand likeprocessed food, handicrafts, household items, apparel and farm produce.
The event will also include workshops tocreate a venue for businesses of the two countries to discuss Thailand’s importstandards and Thai consumers’ taste and demand for Vietnamese goods.
The department is working with provinces andcities to select products to be displayed. It is also collaborating withagencies and sectors to invite enterprises to join the event.
Thailand is the biggest trade partner ofVietnam in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), with two-waytrade reaching 17.5 billion USD in 2018.-VNA