Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on Tuesday he would sign deals for U.S. goods and services worth $15 billion to $17 billion during his visit to Washington, D.C., mainly for high technology products and for services
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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s three-day official visit to the United States, which begins on May 29, is seen as an opportunity to reaffirm that Vietnam is an important partner of America in the Asia-Pacific region.
Mr. Adam Sitkoff, Managing Director of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Vietnam, talks with VietNamNet’s Dieu Thuy about trade and investment between Vietnam and the US on the occasion of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s visit to the US.
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The Vietnamese government policy to divest itself of these enterprises is twofold, said speakers at a recent forum in Hanoi discussing the country’s preparedness for the Vietnam-EU free trade pact that is on track to come into force in 2018.