Vietnam will host the 20th meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Furniture Industries Council (AFIC) in June 2010, said a report of the information center of the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade on Monday.
The meeting will draw participation of seven AFIC members, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
The meeting is to discuss measures to promote the wood and furniture industry of each participating country in 2010 and the trend of the world market on furniture in coming years, according to the Handicraft and Wood Industry Association of Ho Chi Minh City, the Vietnamese member of the AFIC.
The ASEAN has become one of the world's top three wood and furniture exporters with furniture exports of about 12 billion U.S. dollars in 2008, according a report of the AFIC. In the first nine months of 2009, members of the regional trade organization raked in about 7.12 billion U.S. dollars from wood and furniture exports.
The 19th AFIC meeting was held in December 2009 in Singapore.
