HA NOI — Viet Nam and China aim to increase two-way trade turnover to US$25 billion as well as further promote investment between the two countries in 2010, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. SEE MORE Exports in April rose by 2 percent over March to stand at 5.7 billion USD, bringing the nation’s four-month export value to 20.1 billion USD, a year-on-year increase of 8.9 percent.
SEE MORE The US-based telecommunications company AT&T has said it sees the Vietnamese market as the most-promising in the ASEAN region, the Channel NewsAsia (CNA) reported on April 23.
SEE MORE Two-way trade between Vietnam and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has gone up steadily each year but still records a deficit, said the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Head of the ministry’s Asia-Pacific Department Dao Tran Nhan said that two-way trade registered an annual average growth rate of nearly 26 percent during the 2005-08 period, reaching 29.8 billion USD in 2008, doubling 2005’s figure. SEE MORE HA NOI — In an effort to help petrol dealers stabilise prices, the Ministry of Finance (MoF) has decided to reduce petrol import tax rates from 20 per cent to 17 per cent beginning today. SEE MORE
