U.S. companies' optimism about business conditions in China has recovered to hit three-year highs even though the firms have reservations about Beijing's COVID-19 policy, an annual survey showed on Thursday.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) remains confident about Vietnam’s economic prospects in the medium and long term despite the downgrading of the country’s economic growth in 2021, according to the latest Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2021 Update.

Britain exports more to the US than to any other country. When added together, the countries of the European Union count for more, but almost 15% of the UK’s goods exports went to the US last year. The US is also the No 1 country for UK services exports.

An online trade conference on boosting investment link between Vietnam and Japan was held on September 22, gathering representatives from more than 400 Japanese firms and Vietnamese industrial parks and businesses.

Many businesses in the Southwest region have maintained production to ensure export growth, despite having to apply social distancing measures due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Việt Nam's export turnover in July to countries in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), reached US$3.98 billion, a 0.79 per cent increase from June and a 21.64 per cent increase from the same period last year.

Vietnam may attract about US$30 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2021, posting a year-on-year rise of 2%, economists forecast, pointing to positive signs in FDI attraction in the first eight months of 2021 despite the complexities of COVID-19.

Vietnam and the US signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on technical cooperation between the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the US Grains Council (USGC) in Washington on September 22.

China’s request to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for CPTPP landed on the desk of the trade minister of New Zealand on September 16th.

China is unlikely to be accepted into a Pacific Rim trade deal in the short term, but its application seeks to position it as embracing cooperation and opening up.