Communication ports to WTO launched in Ha Noi

08/01/2008 -- 10:12 PM

Ha Noi (VNA) – Three communication ports, which are expected to help Vietnamese agencies in making policies inline with WTO commitments, were launched in Ha Noi on January 8.

The TBT port will provide information relating to technical barriers to trade, the SPS port (Sanitary and Phytosanitary) will deal with food safety and hygiene and animal quarantine, and the WTO port will give information on WTO activities and related issues.

In his inauguration speech, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem, who is President of the National Committee on International Economic Cooperation, stated that those ports will also supply information on Viet Nam’s implementation of WTO agreements.

The Deputy PM also said that those ports will also help enterprises to overcome trade and technical barriers in their business and production, especially in goods exports to regional and world markets.

“The ports will help improve the country’s competitive capacity and sustainable growth in the current trend of international integration,” the Deputy PM said.

The three communication ports were built with the support of the Multilateral Trade Assistance Project Viet Nam II (MUTRAP II), which was sponsored by the European Union.-Enditem
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