The United States and Europe will announce a new joint technology and trade initiative on Tuesday, part of a wide-reaching effort this week by President Joe Biden to rally European allies and challenge China’s rising influence.

Foreign capital continued flowing to industrial real estate via mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in five months of this year, particularly in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

The rate of using Certificate of Origin (C/O) form EUR.1 of Vietnamese textile and garment exporters to the EU to take advantage of preferential tariffs from the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) has not met the expected level.

The General Department of Customs has just issued an official dispatch instructing provincial and municipal customs departments to uniformly implement the provisions of Decree 53/2021/ND-CP on Vietnam's special preferential import and export tariff for implementation of the Free Trade Agreement between Vietnam and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the UKVFTA) in the 2021-2022 period.

The U.K. has agreed a free trade deal with Australia, saying it marked a “new dawn” in their relations.

Many export seafood products have experienced a sharp increase in the first half of 2021, seafood enterprises are focusing on deep processing to increase export value of many key products.

Despite facing difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnam's footwear industry still achieved double-digit growth and some companies have received long-term orders.

Rapidly evolving international tax norms are keeping even the Indian multi national companies (MNCs) on the edge. This affects companies whose group turnover exceeds Euro 750mn (in-scope companies). Certain sectors will be excluded.

Canada and Vietnam have shared a longstanding relationship based on trade, development and immigration. Over the past several years, this relationship has deepened considerably.

E-commerce has not only become an effective tool to help enterprises overcome obstacles posed by the pandemic but is also expected to act as a key to clearing the way for Vietnamese goods to make further inroads into the global market.