Jointly organised by the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Department
of Trade Promotion and the Wallonie region’s Trade and Investment
Promotion Agency, the November 28 event aims at boosting stronger
Vietnam-EU trade ties.
Addressing the event, Vo Ta Luong, Deputy
Director of the ministry’s Department of Trade Promotion for Southern
region said Vietnam and EU have set up a comprehensive cooperation in
all fields, including trade, investment, judiciary cooperation,
security, and the climate change.
The two sides are close to the
signing of an EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), which is expected
to bring benefits as well as challenges to Vietnam’s key sectors, Luong
said, the
According to Jean Claude Marcourt, Vice President of
the Wallonie Government stated Belgium and the Wallonie region in
particular always welcome foreign investors.
With its potential
along with advantages of geography and infrastructure, Belgium is one of
the six most attractive destinations for foreign investors in Europe.
Through Belgian market, especially the Wallonie region, foreign
investors will have opportunities to access 65 percent of European
markets, Marcourt noted.
The EU is Vietnam’s leading economic
and trade partner. In the recent years, two-way trade between the two
sides increased by 15-20 percent annually.
Belgium is among
Vietnam’s most important trade partners in the EU with two-way trade in
2013 hitting 1,825 million USD, up 17 percent over a year earlier. In
the first ten months of this year, Vietnam’s export turnover to Belgium
gained 1,489 million USD.-VNA