Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Ha Noi, April 11 (VNA) -- A Viet Nam-America Economic Exchange and Trade Exhibition-Fair, Viet Nam-America EXPO 2001, will be held at the Reunification Palace in Ho Chi Minh City from July 2-8, the Viet Nam Exhibition and Fair Centre (VEFAC) announced at a press briefing today, April 11, in Ho Chi Minh City.

The Viet Nam-America EXPO 2001 - the first to be held in Viet Nam - will draw about 200 Vietnamese and U.S. enterprises.

It will be jointly sponsored by the National Committee For International Economic Cooperation and the Foreign, Trade and Culture and Information Ministries of Viet Nam, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, the U.S. Embassy's Chamber of Commerce and the U.S.-Viet Nam Trade Council.

It aims to create favourable conditions for enterprises, organizations and individuals of both countries to promote trade and economic exchange and inform each other of opportunities for investment and business cooperation.

Two-way trade between Viet Nam and the U.S. was USD 3.7 billion from 1994 to last October.--VNA