Vietnam introduces business opportunities in US

New York (VNA) - Vietnamese trade representatives joined their Malaysian, Indonesian and Singaporean counterparts to introduce business and investment opportunities and potentials in their countries in New York on April 1.

At a seminar on doing business with Southeast Asian market, US businesses inquired
into medical service, social insurance, labour costs, the exchange rate of local
currencies and the USD and their partners' English communication skills.

US Department of Commerce (DOC) representative in New York Carmela Mammas said
there are great potentials for Vietnam - the US has potentials for trade and
investment cooperation in telecommunications and petrochemical equipment and
services, power transmission, environmental protection and medical equipment,
education and training and air transportation.

Director of the Vietnam Trade Promotion Centre in New York Nguyen Manh Hung cited
the DOC statistics that two-way trade between Vietnam and the US rose from
1.2 billion USD in 2000 to 15.7 billion USD in 2008.

The seminar, jointly held by DOC and the UPS company, drew the participation of
DOC representatives in Singapore , Malaysian trade representatives in New York ,
representatives from the US - Indonesia Trade Chamber and the Vietnamese Trade
and Industry Ministry in New York.-Enditem