An international conference with the theme of “Algerian economy with a vision to 2030” was organised for the first time in Skikda province on September 25-26, aimed to promote the entrepreneurship among young Algerians.

In recent months, the Vietnamese government has introduced various measures to support enterprises and their employees to maintain the production and supply chains amid the COVID-19 pandemic, such as Resolutions 86 and 105.

A virtual workplace platform named VCCI-Workplace was launched late last week by the Business Cooperation Council in Response to COVID-19

Vietnam is taking final steps and scheduled to complete the ratification of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) by November this year.

There is plenty of room for Việt Nam to lure investment from the United States especially after the visit of US Vice President Kamala Harris to Hà Nội in late August.

On August 25, Indonesia’s Trade Minister presented his case for the lower house of Indonesia’s legislature, to ratify the RCEP trade pact.

Free trade agreements to which both Vietnam and Chile are signatories have given a boost to their bilateral trade ties, heard a virtual conference on September 23-24.

The Vietnam-Mexico Joint Committee for economic, trade and investment cooperation convened its third meeting on September 24 via videoconference under the co-chair of Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai and Undersecretary for Foreign Trade in Mexico's Secretariat of Economy Luz María de la Mora.

Due to the long-term suspension of production, inventory of production materials and the existence of ports, many foreign direct investment enterprises (FDI) want to be supported by Customs to re-export raw materials.

Việt Nam is expected to become an exporting country of iron and steel by end-2021 after decades of dependence on imported iron and steel from China.