“It is gonna give Vietnam advantages”, he told Vietnam News Agency’s correspondent on the eve of the official signing ceremony. Besides, there is a large of Vietnamese community in Canada, they will help because they would know what the business opportunity is in Vietnam. Besides this, it is an opportunity for Vietnam’s firms to develop new export items, sign valuable export contracts, and promote a wide range of Vietnamese food and agricultural products. At the expo, Vietnamese firms displayed products such as fruits and vegetables, seafood, cod-liver oil, organic pepper, seedless lemons, rice products, Phu Quoc sauce, various biscuits and juices. Earlier, Vietnamese products were exported to Japan in the form of semi-finished products; however, recently, Vietnamese enterprises have focused on investment and technology cooperation with Japanese enterprises, helping Vietnamese products meet the quality standards of the Japanese market, Minh added.