The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is “crucial and timely” amid the joint efforts of China and ASEAN to overcome the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic while it would also open a new chapter for regional economic and trade ties, Chinese ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian said here Wednesday.

Sixteen of America’s biggest business lobby groups are pushing the Biden administration to secure a digital trade agreement in the Indo-Pacific with countries such as Australia, setting up this week’s AUSMIN talks and next week’s Quad Leaders Summit as the likely platform to announce any such deal.

Vietnam will impose a zero percent tax rate on 31 commodities imported from Cambodia such as live poultry, poultry meat and by-products, lemons and rice.

ASEAN economic ministers adopted revisions to several terms in the Operational Certification Procedures in the first Protocol amending the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement.

The results demonstrate the effectiveness of e-commerce applications in the consumption of agricultural products, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The trade barriers that made the import of Marks & Spencer’s Percy Pig sweets one of the first casualties of Brexit has added an extra £600m in costs to British importers since January, it has emerged.

China's new ambassador to the United States called on Monday for stable and constructive commercial ties between the world's two biggest economies, even as they struggle to resolve political and trade differences, a trade group said.

Following directions of the Government, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has coordinated with relevant ministries, sectors and agencies to implement measures to improve the competitiveness of businesses operating in supporting industry, thus promoting the growth of the sector.

Localities should establish groups and teams for harvesting fish that could facilitate the issuance of travel permits in groups instead of individual travel permits amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Trần Thanh Nam has said.

The UK is well-placed and ready to seize the global opportunities of future trade, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss will say today (14 Sept).