The post-Covid-19 period is a decisive opportunity for Vietnam to realize its aspirations to become a high-income country by 2045, and continue to strongly promote the process of economic restructuring and transformation of the growth model in order to completely overcome internal weaknesses, in parallel with solving a series of newly arising problems.

The United Kingdom (UK) and Vietnam have signed a new free trade deal (UKVFTA) to ensure continuity of their trade once the Brexit transitional period ends on December 31, 2020. The agreement signed in Hanoi in mid-December marks a new beginning in bilateral relations.

There is plenty of room for Việt Nam and India to strengthen investment and trade ties in the future, said Bùi Trung Thướng, Trade Counselor at the Vietnamese Embassy in India.

Vietnam has worked to develop the domestic market with a population of nearly 100 million people in the context that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the global supply chains, said Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh.

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) eyes the country’s ratification of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) next year before politicians get busy for the national elections in 2022.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Ukraine Nguyen Hong Thach and Ukrainian Deputy Minister for Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture Taras Kachka agreed to make greater efforts to push bilateral trade to US$1 billion within the next three years.

Southeast Asia's six leading economies are expected to face diverging fiscal paths in 2021, with Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia gaining from pre-pandemic levels while Singapore, the Philippines and Thailand struggle to return to health.

From December 6 to 11, 2020, China and the EU held the 35th round of negotiations on the Comprehensive Agreement on Investments (“CAI”), a bilateral treaty that will replace the 26 existing bilateral investment treaties between 27 individual EU Member States and China, thus providing a uniform legal framework for EU-China investment ties.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said a free trade deal with London would be signed on Tuesday.

AfCFTA’s secretariat says adoption will be slow as many nations lack border facilities