(VOVworld) - Vietnam and Turkey are striving to bring their trade value to 3 billion USD in 2016. The figure was unveiled by Nguyen The Hung, Vice Director of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry- Ho Chi Minh City Branch (VCCI – HCM City) at a forum in Ho Chi Minh City on March 2.


Hung highlighted the recent fast growing trade between the two countries, saying that it rose to 1.5 billion USD in 2015 from 1 billion USD in 2012.
Vietnam earned 1.4 billion USD from exporting to Turkey, mainly from mobile phone and spare parts, computers, fibres, and rubber. Its imports, worth 100 million USD, were machines, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, milk and dairy products.
This year's forum draw participants from nearly 20 enterprises from Turkey, mostly in agricultural machines, logistics, domestic electricity appliances, recycling technology, pharmaceuticals and food.