The meeting is expected to mark a start for cooperation between the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) and the Vietnam Directorate of Market Surveillance (DMS), and the SAMR, said An.

At the talks.

Pu Chun, for his part, said the MoIT is the first agency a SAMR leader has visited since its establishment in 2018, expressing his willingness and wish to partner with the MoIT and its DMS, especially in food safety inspection and management.

Tran Huu Linh, head of the DMS, suggested the two sides increase the exchange of information about counterfeit goods, particularly food of unknown origin, and soon sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation between the MoIT and the SAMR in order to step up their information exchanges.

Statistics by Vietnamese customs show that trade between Vietnam and China reached 175.56 billion USD last year, up 5.47% from 2021, of which Vietnam’s exports were value at 57.7 billion USD, up 3.18% and its imports were 117.8 billion USD, up 6.63%.

Notably, China remained Vietnam’s biggest trade partner, largest exporter and second biggest buyer, after only the US.

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China to accept durian grown in 293 more areas in Vietnam

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EVN to increase electricity import from China, Laos

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Citizen protection work conducted after road accident in China

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on May 20 said that nine persons carrying Vietnamese identification papers are among 11 victims killed during a severe road accident in Jingxi city, China's Guangxi, at 6:30 am on May 19, citing reports from the Consulate General of Vietnam in China’s Nanning city.

Source: VNA