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PM ratifies Switzerland-financed project

VGP – PM Nguyen Tan Dung approved the project, sponsored by the Swiss Government, to enhance Vietnamese small and medium-sized businesses’ (SMEs) export competitiveness through local trade promotion system.

January 21, 2013 6:18 PM GMT+7

The PM assigned the Ministry of Industry and Trade to ratify and launch the project as regulated.

The aim of the project is to increase SMEs’ contribution to the export turnover of priority commodities.

The project will help to improve the capacity of local trade promotion organizations, establish a national export council and enhance the capacity of the Trade Promotion Department as the leading role in the national trade promotion system.

It will be realized in crucial cities and provinces based on such criteria as trade assistance capacity, sustainable export potentials and being located in key economic zones.

By Thuy Dung