The Netherlands will be a target market for Vietnam with an aim to further optimise the market’s potential and bring Vietnamese goods deeper to the 27-member European Union (EU), according to experts.
Hanoi (VNA) – The Netherlands will be a targetmarket for Vietnam with an aim to further optimise the market’s potential andbring Vietnamese goods deeper to the 27-member European Union (EU), accordingto experts.
The Netherlands was one of the five markets where Vietnamenjoyed trade surplus in 2021, the second most profitable in the firstnine months of this year and the current second largest trade partner ofVietnam among the EU members, Ambassador to the Netherlands Pham Viet Anh said at arecent Vietnam-Netherlands trade promotion conference.
He noted that in the January-September period, despitefluctuations in the world situation, two-way trade still reached nearly 8.3billion USD, almost equivalent to the total figure recorded in the whole 2021,with Vietnam’s exports rising 40.1% to 7.8 billion USD.
The ambassador said that the embassy is ready to supportVietnamese firms to seek partners and provide more products to the Netherlandsand the EU in general.
Meanwhile, head of the Trade Promotion Agency under theMinistry of Industry and Trade Vu Ba Phu said that with its strategic position,the Netherlands is a gateway for products of Vietnam to enter the Europeanmarket.
Joost Vranken Peeters, Chairman of the Netherlands VietnamChamber of Commerce, held that currently Vietnamese businesses have still faceddifficulties in exploring market information and demand. Therefore, they are inneed of partners who are distributors in the Netherlands to be able to doeffective business in the market.
He also reminded Vietnamese exporters to ensure that theirproducts meet quality requirements in the Netherlands.
At the conference, 22 Vietnamese and 15 Dutch firms haddirect meetings to seek partnership in farm produce trading./.
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