At the event jointly held by the Korea Trade Commission under the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy, and the Trade Remedies Authority of Vietnam at the Ministry of Industry and Trade, both sides also examined ways to boost bilateral trade.
Since the Vietnam-RoK Free Trade Agreement (FTA) came into force in 2015 and the two countries signed a deal on expanding collaboration between their trade remedies agencies in 2018, they have held discussions on each nation’s import regulations and established a cooperation channel for sharing views on trade defense matters.
With regard to Vietnam's anti-dumping investigation into galvanized steel from the RoK, initiated in June, the East Asian nation said the product’s direct impact on Vietnam’s steel industry is not significant, asking the country to thoroughly consider this issue.
