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From August 17-21, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) organized five fairs including the Hong Kong International Food Fair (China), Housewares Fair, Cosmetics - Health Food Fair and International Food Trade Fair and Tea Fair.

This year, the Hong Kong Food Expo will take place from August 17 to 19, 2023 for the specialized product display area and from August 17 to 21, 2023 for the product display and sales area. In addition, businesses can also register to participate in online introduction via Click2Match until August 26, 2023.


Vietnam Trade Office in Hong Kong participates in the booth at Hong Kong International Food Expo.

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Vietnam Trade Office in Hong Kong participates in the booth at Hong Kong International Food Expo.

Ms. Vu Thi Thuy - Head of the Vietnam Trade Office in Hong Kong, said: Every year, the Consulate General always has a booth to introduce typical Vietnamese products. In particular, the Vietnam Trade Office in Hong Kong has also mobilized Vietnamese enterprises that have not had the opportunity to participate in the fair, to send product samples, catalogs, promotional images, to display and introduce the best products as well as products that ensure food safety and health that Hong Kong consumers are very interested in such as perilla powder, lingzhi mushrooms, bird's nest or products that Hong Kong consumers really like such as rice and coffee, or rice noodles, cashew nuts.

Ms. Thuy informed that Vietnamese enterprises are increasingly interested in the Hong Kong market as well as the regional market, wishing to use the Hong Kong market to introduce themselves to the regional market.

This is the first time the company has participated in this food fair. Ms. Dao Thi Kim Hoa - Executive Director of Vietnam Cashew Processing Technology Joint Stock Company (CPT), Binh Phuoc province - said that Hong Kong is a potential market because it is not a production place but only imports and consumes goods.

"Participating in the fair could be an opportunity for the company to expand its export market and increase the factory's capacity, hoping to create more jobs for farmers and citizens, bringing safe health products to consumers. Currently, the factory's capacity is 50-60 containers per month" - Ms. Hoa said.

After a period of being restricted by the pandemic, this year for the first time after completely removing anti-epidemic measures, the Hong Kong Food Expo 2023 in conjunction with the Hong Kong Beauty & Wellness Expo, Hong Kong Home Delights Expo, Hong Kong International Tea Fair and the International Conference on Modernization of the Traditional Chinese Medicine and Health Products Industry (ICMCM) will be held on a total area of nearly 30,000 m2 with more than 1,700 exhibitors from countries in the region and around the world such as: China, Japan, Korea, USA, Canada, India, Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Middle Eastern countries, Europe... The fair is expected to attract hundreds of thousands of visitors.

Participating in this Fair, Vietnam's booth introduced many Vietnamese specialties with strengths such as: Rice and rice products, coffee, cashew nuts and other nuts, dried fruits, spices, sauces, dried noodles, etc. Organic products, health supplements such as bird's nest, organic rice, herbal teas, dried perilla seeds, products for vegetarians, etc. all received the attention and love of visitors.

Vietnam's exhibition booth not only attracted many businesses and distributors but also a large number of Hong Kong consumers.

In 2022, trade turnover between Vietnam and Hong Kong reached 32.6 billion USD, an increase of 16% over the previous year, of which food products exported from Vietnam to Hong Kong reached about 469 million USD, an increase of 9.4%.

For many years, Vietnam has always been one of Hong Kong's major food import markets with annual import turnover from Vietnam of about over 300 million USD.

In particular, Vietnam is Hong Kong's main supplier of some foods such as suckling pig (accounting for a market share of over 99%), rice (accounting for a market share of over 27%); some other Vietnamese products are also favored by Hong Kong consumers such as coffee, vegetables, cashews, rice products (vermicelli, pho...) and various types of seafood (import turnover from Vietnam reached about 165 million USD in 2022).

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