Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Philippines are competing fiercely for a larger share of China's fruit market.

Vietnam wants to work with China to boost export growth, creating a stable market for agriculture products, said Minister of Industry and Trade (MoIT) Tran Tuan Anh.

In August 2019, the amendments to the ASEAN-China FTA came into force, simplifying the rules for trade of goods, services, and investments in the ASEAN-China economic zone that is home to over 1.8 billion people.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has issued Circular No. 12/2019/TT-BCT regulating rules of origin of goods in the Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Economic Co-operation between the ASEAN and the People's Republic of China (ACFTA) with many new points.

Besides the bilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) that they have individually signed with other countries, each ASEAN member state is a signatory to the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) between themselves as well as the several FTAs that the regional trade bloc has signed with some of the major economies in the Asia-Pacific region.

The year 2018 marks the 15th anniversary of the establishment of strategic partnership between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) featured with political trust, mutual respect and win-win cooperation.

The economies of Southeast Asia and China need to stay open and connected to one another to sustain the existing economic dynamism, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Wednesday (Nov 14).

Economic ministers of China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) reaffirmed the commitment to further strengthening trade and economic relations at the 17th ASEAN Economic Ministers (AEM)-Minister of Commerce of the People's Republic of China (MOFCOM) Consultations held on Thursday.

HCM City and China’s Shandong Province aim to facilitate bilateral trade by holding more networking events, encouraging investments between both sides, and signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), promising more support in the future.

Singapore believes there is scope to expand cooperation and differences can be managed