At Yen Bai province

With the advantage of being a mountainous province, with great potential for land and minerals, through many years of concentrated investment and development, Yen Bai province has formed a number of  concentrated areas of mining, agricultural and forestry raw materials to make diversified and rich industrial-agricultural products. Many products of the province have become strong in exports such as mining products, tea, cinnamon, plantation timber, tapioca starch, sorghum, bamboo shoots. The main export markets for mineral products are: India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Brunei, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, and Sri Lanka. ... The agricultural and forestry products are mainly exported to countries such as: China, India, Taiwan, Korea, USA, Japan, Singapore ...

At the conference, representatives of the Vietnam Trade Office in the countries: India, Japan, Korea, Pakistan, Indonesia and China informed about the potentials, advantages of other countries, the export and import situation of Vietnam South to these markets; market demand, current consumer trends and product quality standards, including typical Yen Bai products with export potential such as: honey, tea, Bat Do bamboo shoots,  Cinnamon oil, tapioca starch, plantation wood products, stone powder and white limestone ...

In order for Yen Bai's products to reach many markets around the world, businesses need to improve product quality, packaging, design, origin, and after-sales service. Enterprises must also pay attention to the issues of International Trade Law, tax issues, customs; verify the partner's reputation to avoid risks. It is necessary to have staff who are knowledgeable in order to facilitate transactions with partners; pay attention to issues of culture, consumer tastes, specific regulations of the countries to ensure the standard of official export ...

Representatives of businesses expressed their gratitude to the Trade Promotion Agency, Yen Bai province for organizing this conference, through which businesses had chance to connect to more markets, understand better about market needs as well as regulations. export standards of some key products in markets such as: India, Japan, Korea, Pakistan ... From there, businesses plan in-depth investment orientation, deep processing, refined processing, improving productivity and product quality, responding to fastidious markets.

Enterprises also stated the advantages and disadvantages in exporting. They expected the province to continue holding conferences connecting with other markets around the world, especially the European market to create favorable conditions for enterprises  approach to many new technologies, expand production scale, expand markets.

Speaking at the conference, Mr. Ngo Hanh Phuc - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee emphasized: To promote trade promotion and consumption towards export of the province's strong products, enterprises need to be active, creative in organizing production and business, approaching and expanding market, improving product quality to meet market demand.

Yen Bai province hoped that in the coming time, the Vietnam Trade Office in countries, investors, domestic and foreign organizations will pay attention, promote investment cooperation, promote trade in consumption of key products of Yen Bai province. The  province wished to continue receiving more attention and coordination from domestic and foreign in trade promotion agencies and organizations, especially the Department of Trade Promotion, Ministry of Industry and Trade to support the province to boost exports.

Mr. Ngo Hanh Phuc assigned the Department of Industry and Trade to continue to coordinate with the Department of Trade Promotion to have many forms of information provision to help businesses access many new markets.