Special Envoy of the Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade worked with the US Trade Representative

Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien affirmed that Vietnam always considers the US a top important partner and wishes to promote the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries to develop strongly, substantially, deeply and with sustainable effectiveness.

This is the information at the working session between the Prime Minister's Special Envoy, Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien and US Trade Representative Jamieson L. Greer on promoting bilateral economic and trade cooperation between Vietnam and the US on March 13 in Washington DC, USA.

This is the first important, direct and official working session at the ministerial level between the two countries since the US had a new administration.

Minister Nguyen Hong Dien and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. Photo: BCT

At the meeting, the two sides expressed their delight at the fact that after 30 years of establishing diplomatic relations, 10 years of establishing comprehensive partnership and 2 years of upgrading relations to comprehensive strategic partnership, the relationship between the two countries has been developing increasingly positively and firmly in all fields.

Minister Nguyen Hong Dien affirmed that Vietnam always considers the US a top important partner and wishes to promote the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries to develop strongly, substantially, deeply and sustainably, contributing to enhancing understanding and strategic trust between the two countries.

Minister Nguyen Hong Dien said that the economies and import-export commodity structures of Vietnam and the US are complementary, so the trade turnover between the two countries has increased rapidly and stably over the past years, ensuring important foundations and maintaining national interests in bilateral cooperation. Vietnam's consistent policy is to wish to build a harmonious, sustainable, stable, mutually beneficial economic and trade relationship with the US; at the same time, it has no intention of creating any obstacles that could harm workers or the economic and national security of the US.

Minister Nguyen Hong Dien also informed about specific groups of solutions that the Vietnamese Government is proactively implementing to promote economic, trade and investment relations with the US in a comprehensive, harmonious and sustainable manner; requested the two countries' technical levels to continue to exchange information so that the US can soon recognize Vietnam's market economy status; said that this will be an important decision, commensurate with the stature of the current comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries.

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer highly appreciated the proactive coordination and frank, responsible, and goodwill views of the Minister of Industry and Trade in clearly understanding and directly addressing the direction of handling current US concerns.

Mr. Greer said that the new US trade policy is purely designed to further promote trade and investment, protect economic security, national security and US workers; not to harm partner countries. However, in trade exchanges, the parties must achieve commensurate economic benefits; accordingly, Vietnam needs to have stronger solutions to open the market and improve the trade balance in the coming time.

Referring to concerns about the US's tariff policy developments, Minister Nguyen Hong Dien and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said that this is the time for Vietnam and the US to work closely together to create a fair and sustainable business environment through proactively reviewing and considering the removal of trade barriers that hinder investment and business activities; building an effective control mechanism for trade fraud, origin fraud, and illegal transshipment.

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