Organizational structure of the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency

Organizational structure of the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Internet image)

Regarding this issue, LawNet would like to answer as follows:

1. The Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency is an organization under which Ministry?

The Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency is an organization directly under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, performing the advisory function; of assisting the Minister in state management and law enforcement in the field of trade promotion, investment promotion, and development of the industry and trade industry and trademarks in accordance with the law.

The Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency has its own legal status, seal, and account in accordance with the law; operating expenses shall be provided by the state budget and from other sources according to the State's regulations.

Thus, the Trade Promotion Department is an organization directly under the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

(Article 1 of Decision 963/QD-BCT 2013)

2. Organizational structure of the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency

The organizational structure of the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency is prescribed as follows:

(1) The assisting apparatus of the Director:

- Office;

- Financial Planning Division;

- Department of Trade Promotion Management;

- Market Research and Development Department;

- Department of Export Development Policy;

- Department of Information, Communication and Brand Development;

- International Cooperation Department;

- Representative office of Trade Promotion Department in Ho Chi Minh City;

- Representative office of Trade Promotion Department in Da Nang city.

(2) Non-business units:

- Industry and Trade Television;

- Export Support Center;

- Center for Investment Promotion and Development of Industry and Trade;

- Center for application of information technology for trade promotion;

- Vietnam Product Introduction Center in New York;

- Vietnam Trade Promotion Offices in Foreign Countries

The establishment and dissolution of units under the Department shall be considered and decided by the Minister at the proposal of the Director of the Department.

(Article 3 of Decision 963/QD-BCT 2013)

3. Some tasks and powers of the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency

Specifically, the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency has the following tasks and powers:

- Formulating and submitting to the Minister for promulgation or submitting to competent state management agencies for promulgation programs, projects, schemes, strategies, plans, legal documents, standards, and regulations, technical and economic norms, management regulations on trade promotion activities, investment promotion, and development of the industry and trade industry and brands.

- Promulgating special documents, specialized documents of the Department, and a number of documents related to state management on trade promotion, investment promotion, development of industry, trade, and trademarks in accordance with the law.

- Organizing, directing, guiding, and inspecting the implementation of legal documents, strategies, programs, projects, and schemes
on trade promotion, investment promotion, development of industry, trade, and trademarks in accordance with the law.

- Regarding trade promotion and investment promotion to develop the Industry and Trade industry:

+ Advising and assisting the Minister in formulating and promulgating the National Trade Promotion Program, strategies and policies on trade promotion and investment promotion, and the development of the Industry and Trade sectors within the scope of the Ministry's state management;

+ Assisting the Minister in directing, guiding, organizing, examining, synthesizing, and evaluating the implementation of the National Trade Promotion Program; directing, coordinating, and supporting governmental and non-governmental trade promotion organizations in trade promotion activities in accordance with law;

+ Submitting to the Minister regulations on contents and operating conditions for commercial advertising, fairs, trade exhibitions, sales promotion, display, and introduction of goods and services at home and abroad according to the provisions of law;

+ Guiding and examining the contents and operating conditions for commercial advertising, fairs, trade exhibitions, sales promotion, display, and introduction of goods and services at home and abroad according to the provisions of law;

+ Managing the annual state budget for trade promotion activities nationwide;

+ Directing and guiding the Departments of Industry and Trade on the state management of trade promotion, investment promotion, and development of the Industry and Trade industry in accordance with law;

(More details can be found in Article 2 of Decision 963/QD-BCT 2013)

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