At the meeting, representatives of agencies and units from the ministries reviewed the export performance of key commodity sectors, assessed the difficulties and challenges facing businesses, and discussed measures to enhance competitiveness, manage the trade balance, and promote export growth in the coming period.

Key topics of discussion included ensuring resources for production and sectoral development; improving mechanisms and policies related to standards, technical regulations, and traceability; addressing tax, financial, logistics, and export-support infrastructure constraints; reforming administrative procedures and reducing compliance time and costs for businesses; and strengthening market-opening efforts, trade promotion activities, forecasting, and early warning systems regarding policy changes in export markets.
The ministries also agreed to continue strengthening close cooperation in formulating and improving policies, avoiding overlaps, enhancing information and data sharing, and promptly addressing emerging difficulties and obstacles. These efforts are intended to support the effective implementation of state management functions and efficient import-export governance in line with the current global trade landscape and structure.

Minister of Industry and Trade Le Manh Hung speaks at the meeting.
During the meeting, relevant agencies of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment held direct discussions to study and agree on solutions for concretizing and implementing the Government’s directives on promoting export growth, leveraging the role of exports in economic growth, and contributing to the successful achievement of socio-economic development objectives for 2026 and the coming years.