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(VEN) - Online food shopping is a burgeoning business trend in Vietnam, growing rapidly as more and more consumers discover the advantage of this form of trade. 

A ceremony was held in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long on April 19 to announce the first batch of Vinh Long mangoes to be exported to the United States, which is the result of negotiations between Vietnam and the US over the past 10 years.

Exporters should step up trade promotion to boost exports to Taiwan, which imports large volumes of farm produce and processed foods, according to Vietnamese trade officials.

An e-commerce trading floor will be set up to sell products from the Republic of Korea, a conference heard in Seoul on April 15.

(VEN) - Singapore is a tough export market for Vietnamese goods, said Commercial Counselor Dr. Tran Thu Quynh, Head of the Trade Office of the Vietnamese Embassy in Singapore. In order to carve out niches in the Singaporean market, domestic companies need to invest deeply in sustainable development, he added.

A One Commune One Product (OCOP) International Trade Fair and Lifestyle Vietnam 2019 - Handicraft and Gift International Trade Fair opened at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center in Ho Chi Minh City on April 17.

(VEN) - Over the past 28 years, the Vietnam International Trade Fair (Vietnam Expo) has become one of the biggest trade promotion activities and brought an important meaning for the Vietnamese industry and trade sector, helping Vietnamese businesses increase exports and develop the domestic market, and contributing to the implementation of the government’s commitments in the international economic integration process.

Romania is a potential market for the export of a number of Vietnamese products including tropical fruits (fresh and canned), seafood (frozen and canned), coffee, pepper, cashew nuts and pork, although Romania has a growing livestock industry.

The exports of wood and wood products posted the highest trade surplus among Vietnamese agricultural, forestry and aquatic products exported in the first quarter of 2019, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

The “One Commune One Product” (OCOP) international fair will take place at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre, Ho Chi Minh City from April 17-20, with a wide range of excellent handicraft products on display.

A wide range of machinery and equipment, automated technologies and raw materials for the garment and textile industry are on display at the Saigon Tex & Saigon Fabric 2019, which kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on April 10.

The Vietnam International Trade Fair (Vietnam Expo 2019) officially opened at the Vietnam-Soviet Friendship Labour Cultural Palace in Hanoi on April 10.

Vietnamese products were introduced at the Go Green Expo and Better Food Fair 2019, which was recently held in Auckland city in New Zealand.

The export of Vietnamese shrimps to Japan has shown signs of recovery this year, after a 9.2-percent decrease in 2018.

(VEN) - Vu Viet Nga, Commercial Counselor in charge of the Vietnamese Embassy’s Trade Office in the Philippines spoke with Vietnam Economic News’ Phuong Lan.

The total export value of the agricultural, forestry and fishery sector in the first quarter of 2019 decreased by nearly 3%, but the exports of main forestry products saw a breakthrough with a strong increase of 16.5%, reaching US$2.4 billion, thus exceeding seafood exports.

The import-export turnover through the Lao Cai International Border Gate on the Vietnam-China border hit 372.8 million USD in the first quarter of 2019, equivalent to 78.2 percent of the figure in the same period last year. 

Vietnam recorded a trade surplus of US$536 million in the first quarter of 2019, according to the General Statistics Office.

The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho exported 447.8 million USD worth of goods in the first three months of 2019, up 13.32 percent year on year, according to the municipal Department of Industry and Trade.

Vietnam’s coffee exports in March are estimated to fall 28.8 - 33.5 percent from a year earlier to 140,000-150,000, traders said last week.

The International Trade Fair of the Northwest Region opened in Dien Bien Phu city, Dien Bien province, on March 30, by the People’s Committee of Dien Bien province in coordination with the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

(VEN) - Hanoi’s exports continued to grow in the first two months of 2019, but the capital needs to focus more on branding and sustainable development of exports.

Vietnam now exports 1 billion pairs of shoes per year and the nation is the second largest leather and footwear exporter in the world, according to experts at the Vietnam Footwear Summit 2019 held in HCM City on March 20.

The International Trade Fair of the Northwest Region is scheduled to begin on March 30 at the May 7 Square in Dien Bien Phu city, the northwestern province of Dien Bien.