Great potential to promote export of goods in the Northern Midlands and Mountains
The Northern Midlands and Mountains region has great potential and advantages for sustainable development with many types of rich natural resources, large areas of hills and forests, diverse climate, soil, and ethnic diversity. In addition, the Northern Midlands and Mountains region also has a great advantage in terms of a very long border with China - a huge market for import and export of goods for the world in general and for Vietnam in particular.
According to Mr. Do Quoc Hung, Director of the Department of Asia - Africa Market (Ministry of Industry and Trade), many types of fruit trees in the Northern Midlands and Mountains are grown according to VietGap and GlobalGap standards, meeting the standards and conditions for export to markets such as Australia, the United States, Europe, Japan, Korea, China such as longan, lychee, mango, passion fruit, banana, plum, avocado, etc.
“ These products have achieved many good export results in recent times, are favored by foreign consumers and currently hold a large market share in the Asia-Africa markets. There is still a lot of room for market expansion for the region’s key export products to this region. ” - Mr. Do Quoc Hung shared.
In the European - American market, Mr. Nguyen Hong Duong - Deputy Director of the European - American Market Department said that exports of goods from the Northern Midlands and Mountains to this region in the first two months of the year had significant growth.
Specifically, wood exports grew dramatically again, reaching 1.36 billion USD, up 49.4% over the same period last year; fruit and vegetable exports reached more than 93 million USD, up more than 18%; animal feed and raw materials reached nearly 18 million USD, up more than 238%; rice exports reached nearly 28 million USD, up nearly 238%; and tea exports reached nearly 3.9 billion USD, up more than 17%.
In the long term, exporting Vietnamese goods in general, and the Northern Midlands and Mountains in particular, to the European and American markets still has a lot of potential because Vietnam is a country with special export advantages when it owns up to 16 Free Trade Agreements, including agreements with European and American countries and market regions.
Synchronizing trade promotion solutions for the Northern Midlands and Mountains region
However, according to the assessment of , localities in the region have not yet fully exploited the potential and strengths of the region, and have not yet turned potential into dynamism, potential, and resources.
Mr. Vu Ba Phu - Director of the Trade Promotion Department (Ministry of Industry and Trade) said that the trade promotion activities of localities in the region are still fragmented, there is no connection to create common promotion activities for the entire Northern Midlands and Mountains region. At the same time, trade promotion activities have not been closely paid attention to by local leaders, and many resources such as funding and human resources have not been allocated to implement.
Although goods in the Northern Midlands and Mountains are diverse, especially agricultural and forestry products, the output is not large enough to meet international import orders, especially from American, European or Chinese importers.
Therefore, Mr. Vu Ba Phu suggested that leaders of local People's Committees pay attention and spend more time and resources on trade promotion, prioritizing trade promotion activities in regions, localities and provinces.
“ The Trade Promotion Agency (Ministry of Industry and Trade) will coordinate with the Department of Industry and Trade of the provinces to develop annual action plans and programs for common activities in the whole region, and request local leaders to pay attention to allocating resources for common trade promotion activities in the whole region. ” - Mr. Vu Ba Phu said, expressing his hope that localities will pay attention and have mechanisms to form specialized companies and corporations or specialized import-export groups to carry out foreign trade activities in a systematic and professional manner.
The representative of the Import-Export Department (Ministry of Industry and Trade) said that localities need to continue to focus resources on infrastructure investment, especially developing the transport network for . Along with other synchronous solutions, localities in the region also need to strengthen trade promotion on digital platforms to help businesses and localities exploit information about border gates and import-export activities; develop service types associated with border gate economic development, focusing on logistics services, customs brokerage, legal consultancy, testing, and quarantine in a quality, civilized, and modern direction, in order to save time and costs for businesses and traders participating in import-export activities through the area.
In addition, deploy activities to connect businesses and their products (especially agricultural, forestry and fishery products) with Vietnamese trade representatives in countries and territories to introduce and promote products and seek opportunities to expand the market.
“ The Import-Export Department also requested that the northern mountainous provinces strengthen monitoring of the situation at border gates, promptly notify and advise localities with exported goods through northern border gates, especially fruits and agricultural products, to proactively improve the efficiency of regulating goods and vehicles. ” - Representative of the Import-Export Department shared.
Strengthening regional connectivity for greater benefits
Agreeing with and appreciating the proposals and recommendations of representatives of units to support trade promotion and expand import and export in the Northern Midlands and Mountains, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Phan Thi Thang said that localities in the Northern Midlands and Mountains have made great efforts to overcome difficulties and restore the economy of the region as well as the whole country.
However, to promote economic development in the Northern Midlands and Mountains, Deputy Minister Phan Thi Thang suggested that the whole region needs to unite, focus on exploiting and developing common products that are the region's strengths to create greater value and greater benefits when exporting to foreign markets.
In addition, it is necessary to actively participate in trade promotion activities to promote local strengths in the international market, while strengthening connections with the Vietnamese Trade Office system abroad to update information and trends of foreign markets.
Departments of Industry and Trade, localities as well as businesses need to coordinate with e-commerce platforms to grasp new content and consumer trends to improve their business capacity in the digital environment.
“ The Ministry of Industry and Trade will accompany and support localities to effectively promote exports, support products and services of the Northern Midlands and Mountains region to find suitable market directions in the context of the current uncertain world economic situation, negatively affecting Vietnam's trade… ” - Deputy Minister Phan Thi Thang emphasized.
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