A booth at the exhibition (Photo: VNA)Covering 15,000 sq.m, the fair features nearly 1,000booths set up by nearly 200 domestic and foreign businesses, of which 34 areforeign.
Dang Quoc Hung, Director of HAWA Corporation, the organiser of the event, said the enterprises bring to the event diverseproducts, along with machines and components in service of the industry.
Within the framework of the fair, there will beworkshops on materials sources and digital application in export-import activities withthe participation of experts and representatives from associations andbusinesses.
VIFA-EXPO 2022, the first offline fair of thedomestic furniture and wood industry after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19pandemic, will last until September 3.
Vietnam's export of timber and wood products has decreased due to the impact of high inflation in the export market.
The General Department of Customs said Vietnam'sexport value of timber and wood products in June fell by 4.9% on-year to 1.5billion USD.
In the first six months, the export value of timberand wood products picked up 2.8% on-year to 8.5 billion USD. But the exportvalue of wood products plunged by 4.6% on-year to 6 billion USD.
Wooden furniture was the key export item in thestructure of export timber and wood products in the first five months of thisyear. However, the export value decreased due to slowing global demand./.
VNA
