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The Ministry of Industry and Trade will promote the effective implementation of international commitments that Vietnam has participated in, ensuring sustainable development, focusing on implementing the action program to implement the New generation FTA focuses on promoting in-depth foreign economic relations to create leverage for domestic economic and trade development.
Promote effective implementation of international commitments
Responding to questions from National Assembly delegates about negotiating and exploiting advantages from free trade agreements, Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien said that in recent times, Vietnam has implemented effectively and exploited well. advantages from free trade agreements. Vietnam continuously has a trade surplus, in the first 10 months of 2023, there was a trade surplus of 24.6 billion USD. To achieve such results, the Government, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, ministries and localities have promoted bilateral and multilateral negotiation activities, focusing on key and potential markets.
To date, in addition to participating in the implementation of many FTA agreements with a wide spectrum of more than 60 countries and territories, Vietnam is also continuing to negotiate with the European Free Trade Association; At the same time, continue to study the feasibility of negotiating and signing preferential trade agreements with a number of new potential partners, partners with complementary economies to the Vietnamese economy and those with partners with potential in science and technology to negotiate agreements in the near future.
The Minister of Industry and Trade said that he will promote the effective implementation of international commitments that Vietnam has participated in, ensuring sustainable development, focusing on implementing the action program to implement FTAs. new generation, focusing on promoting in-depth foreign economic relations, especially economic relations with countries and major partners with potential to create leverage for economic and trade development in the world. water.
At the same time, promote the role of Vietnamese trade missions abroad to capture timely information and fluctuations in the world economy as well as new policies of host countries, contributing to orienting production in the country. water, helping businesses build and adjust production and business plans.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade also promotes administrative reform, facilitates import and export of goods, and develops logistics and e-commerce services; coordinate with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in negotiating to open export markets for fruit and crop products; Focus on removing technical barriers so businesses can penetrate deeper into new potential markets...
Strengthen e-commerce management and supervision activities
Regarding e-commerce, Minister Nguyen Hong Dien emphasized that this is one of the pioneering fields of the digital economy, becoming an important distribution channel, creating motivation for economic development, leading digital conversion.
However, e-commerce also has limitations as stated by the delegates. Recently, the country's Market Management force has discovered and handled many entities trading in goods with signs of counterfeit brands, smuggled goods, and goods of unknown origin on a large scale.
Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has implemented a number of solutions such as: adding responsibilities of social network owners and e-commerce trading floors; remove information about infringing goods, actively and proactively coordinate with relevant ministries and branches to review, capture information, detect and handle violations through online sales.. .
Minister Nguyen Hong Dien emphasized that in the coming time, the Ministry of Industry and Trade will focus on reviewing legal regulations, especially the Law on Electronic Transactions (amended), the Law on Protection of Consumer Rights (amended). ); decentralize and decentralize power to localities for comprehensive management of online transactions; Strengthen management and monitoring activities in the network environment; proactively request social networks and e-commerce platforms to remove information about products and goods that violate the law; Enhance database sharing and connection to exploit information to serve state management in the field of electronic transactions.
