New York (VNA), Sept. 23 -- Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh on September 22 met representatives from the US Chamber of Commerce , the Business Council for International Understanding ( BCIU ), the US-ASEAN Business Council ( USABC ) and US firms operating in many different areas in New York.

Highlighting the sound economic, trade and investment partnership between the two countries, Minh noted that two-way trade reached nearly 87 billion USD in the first eight months of this year, up about 20% year on year.

The US has been the largest export market of Vietnam, while Vietnam is also the biggest trade partner of the US among the ASEAN countries, he stressed.

The official affirmed that the Vietnamese Government will continu...