INTRODUCTION TO VIETNAM E-COMMERCE PORTAL

The Vietnam E-Commerce Portal (ECVN) is established under the Decision No. 266 / 2003 / QD-TTg dated 17th December, 2003 by the Prime Minister. ECVN is operated by the Ministry of Industry and Trade for the purpose of constructing a commercial portal for the Vietnamese business community. ECVN assists businesses to quickly improve potential trading opportunities gained via e-commerce applications; popularizing and promoting their image and trademark; connecting trading opportunities between Vietnamese enterprises and partners at home as well as abroad, leading to successful transactions is one of the most important activities in our daily operations.

Online support:
- A free electronic stand for members in two languages (English and Vietnamese) to:
- Selling leads or buying leads for both product and service;
- Matching between enterprises;
- Providing latest business news, introducing trading partners, importers;
- Providing the newest, most informative and strongest tools: e-tender, trade fairs column, supporting export column in order to assist members in their business activities;
- Publicizing through domestic and foreign B2B websites, search engines, yellow pages.

Offline support:
- ECVN has established partner relationships with a number of government agencies, Services of Trade, trade promotion centers, trade unions, international and national economic organizations. Especially, ECVN has close ties with about 60 Foreign Trade Counselors of Vietnam, with international organizations, with foreign embassies in Vietnam, etc. in order to create the most useful services for ECVN's members to support ECVN's members to find partners, business information, market information; to appraise foreign enterprise information and to publicize image of enterprises abroad. . .
- Introducing trading partners, importers, exporters. . .

At present, Vietnam E-commerce Portal is highly appreciated as the leading B2B e-marketplace of Vietnam. All enterprises who are members of ECVN are appraised and are prestigious ones. Therefore, all information provided through ECVN are authentic and reliable, enterprises can rely on conducting business transactions in ECVN.

We do hope that you will you find many partnerships in Vietnam via our service operations. All information we would provide you is free of charge as we are mainly funded by the Vietnamese Government.

With the desire to build a bridge between Vietnamese companies and international enterprises for borderless trading, it is a great honor for us to co-operate with your organization.