Việt Nam is at risk of losing out on major pepper export markets due to increasing logistics costs, according to the Việt Nam Pepper Association (VPA).

The Vietnam Trade Office in Australia is organising a Vietnamese dragon fruit week in large Australian cities from July 21 to August 10 to promote the export of the fruit.

The export value of local timber and wood products to the UK market during the first half of the year soared by 53.5% to US$146.5 million against the same period last year, according to the Vietnam Timber and Forest Products Association (VIFOREST).

Vietnamese firms should attach more importance to registering for intellectual property protection in foreign markets.

Vietnam is still believed to be a leader in regional economic growth, despite some risks remaining.

Thailand’s Commerce Ministry set to propose frameworks for the Thailand-EU free trade agreement and ASEAN-Canada FTA for cabinet approval.

China and the U.S. are shipping goods to each other at the briskest pace in years, making the world’s largest bilateral trade relationship look as if the protracted tariff war and pandemic never happened.

The European Union rejected a call from the British government to overhaul the Northern Ireland Protocol, a key tenet of the agreement that saw the U.K. leave the EU in 2020.

Australia’s Anti-Dumping Commission (ADC) has announced the fifth extension of time granted to issue the final report of the investigation into alleged dumping and subsidisation of precision pipe and tube steel imported from Vietnam, China, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan (China).

The Malaysian government has imposed anti-dumping duties on imports of prepainted, painted or colour coated steel coils originating or exported from China and Vietnam for a period of five years, effective July 20, 2021 to July 19, 2026.