Accordingly, Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh serves as the deputy head of the committee, while its members include Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai (also General Secretary of the committee); Deputy Chairman of the Government Office Nguyen Sy Hiep; Deputy Governor of the State Bank of Viet Nam Nguyen Thi Hong; Deputy Finance Minister Tran Hong Ha; Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen The Phuong; Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh; Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Tran Quoc Khanh; Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Nguyen Linh Ngoc; and Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Quoc Khanh, head of the government’s negotiation delegation on international economics and trade. The intersectoral steering committee is part of the National Steering Committee on International Integration, which was established following the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 596/QĐ-TTg dated April 23, 2014. The intersectoral steering committee is tasked with researching, recommending and consulting with the head of the National Steering Committee on the government’s big guidelines, policies, strategies, plans and action programs concerning international economic integration, as well as on the common negotiation guidelines and directions for international economic integration, so as to create a premise for the building of negotiation measures of ministries and sectors. In addition, the intersectoral steering committee is also responsible for helping the head of the National Steering Committee direct and coordinate activities of domestic ministries, sectors, localities and businesses to participate in economic and trade activities in the ASEAN, the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and other organizations, forums and trade deals in the region and around the world; and direct ministries and sectors to adjust, supplement and finalize the system of domestic economic and trade laws and policies to ensure accordance with regional and world economic and trade institutions and organizations to which Viet Nam is a signatory.