TEHRAN (Iran News) –Some of trade activists of Vietnam who are in Tehran to attend IRAN EXPO 2023 met their counterparts in Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mine and Agriculture and during the meeting both sides emphasized they can broaden trade ties by removing legal hurdles.
The Vietnamese trade delegation led by Firs Secretary and Commercial Attache of Embassy of Vietnam in Tehran Mr. Nguyen Tien Dung attended the ICCIMA and exchanged views with their Iranian counterparts.
In the meeting, Shahram Khasipoor, director of Arab and Africa Department of the ICCIMA said that Vietnam’s economy is moving ahead and it experiences growth and last year the country experienced 8% growth while the trade volume of the country in the past year has increased by 10%.
He added that according to the statistics, the trade volume between Iran and Vietnam is around $15m that Vietnam’s export to Iran is valued at $96m while in return Iran’s export is $45m, admitting that the figure is not good considering the good existing capacities.
Khasipoor called for boosting cooperation in trade especially in the fields of tropical fruits, coffee, dried fruits and apple and both countries can cooperate in the construction materials, medicines and sea products as well as technical and engineering services that Iran has good capacity.
He added that both countries can increase their trade to $2b and to this end, governments of both countries should provide some required infrastructures and finding a monetary mechanism as well as launching regular shipping lines and flights between the two countries.
He also said that exchange of information is very important and announced readiness of ICCIMA in this regard.
Then Mr. Dung, for his part, pointed to the negative impacts of COVID-19 pandemic and expressed his satisfaction over continuity of trade activities between Iran and Vietnam and said that last year both countries witnessed their highest bilateral trade till now which was around $125m and noted that Embassy of Vietnam in Tehran looks a ICCIMA as a link for connecting traders of the two countries which can pave the ground fir increasing trade exchange between Tehran and Hanoi.
Then Head of Iran-Vietnam Joint Chamber of Commerce Mr. Sajed Nikmehr expressed the efforts of the chamber for increasing the trade between the two states especially in the field of tourism. And said Iran can focus on cooperating in construction materials in Vietnam.
