Guadalajara, Jalisco. At the end of October, businessmen from Jalisco will participate in a trade mission to Vietnam, India and Thailand, seeking to explore those markets both for the export of local products and to attract investment, the president of the Mexican Council of Commerce told El Economista. Exterior (Comce) of the West, Miguel Ángel Landeros.
The also Honorary Consul of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam stressed that “the best way to compete is to be allies”, so that, in addition to the high-tech sectors, representatives of traditional industries such as textiles, footwear will participate in the trade mission. , jewelry, furniture and some from the manufacturing sector, in order to take advantage of the Trans-Pacific Agreement for Economic Cooperation (CPTPP).
“We have products that can be very successful there; obviously we understand that their level of competitiveness is very high but, for example, tequila has a Denomination of Origin and it is a product that they cannot reproduce and that we are going to take to position ourselves well in Vietnam,” Landeros Volquarts said.
The businessman explained that some of the commercial agreements between Mexico and Vietnam that the 21 exporting sectors of Jalisco can take advantage of to balance the commercial balance, until now in deficit, are an Agreement of Economic, Commercial and Investment Cooperation that dates from 2016, an Agreement of Technical and Scientific Cooperation, Agriculture and Forestry Agreement and the CPTPP.