Vietnam's garment makers opposed the United States' import regime and wanted it to be quickly abolished, local newspaper Vietnam News on Friday quoted a Vietnamese deputy minister of industry and trade as saying.

U.S. Customs figures proved that Vietnam had not dumped its garments and textiles into the United States, deputy minister Bui Xuan Khu said when meeting with visiting David Spooner, Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.

Earlier, a Vietnamese Industry and Trade Ministry delegation led by American Market Department director Nguyen Duy Khien met with U.S. Commerce Department officials, discussing ways to settle difficulties with the U.S. garment import regime.

Commerce Department officials at the meeting had conceded the application of the regime had a negative impact on both U.S. and Vietnamese businesses, Khien said.

U.S. Customs figures show Vietnam's garment exports were worth nearly 2 billion U.S. dollars in the first half of this year, a year-on-year rise of 20.7 percent