Vietnamese agricultural products have won the taste of Chinese consumers in recent years due to their quality as well as improvement in businesses’ supply capacity, a trade promotion official has said.

In the past couple of decades multinational corporations have invested heavily in China to cut production costs and capitalise on the rapidly growing domestic market. In the process, they turned the country into the factory of the world and a global supply chain hub.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has sent an urgent document to People’s Committees of localities with products exported abroad to ensure the “dual goal” of preventing and controlling COVID-19 prevention and control while maintaining socio-economic development and social security.

Vietnamese products, including various farm produce, were on display at the 7th African Investment and Trade Forum (AFIC7) held in the Algerian capital city of Algiers on May 24 and 25.

On May 25 2012, the former secretary-general of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, said: “Africa Day provides an opportunity to acknowledge the achievements of the people and governments of Africa”.

Eric Li’s factory making glass lampshades for companies including Home Depot Inc. is being stretched to its limits with sales doubling their pre-pandemic level.

On May 21, 2021, the Government issued Decree 53/2021/ND-CP on Vietnam’s Preferential Export Tariff and Special Preferential Import Tariff to implement the UKVFTA Agreement for the 2021-2022 period.

Mr. Hoang Trung, Director of the Plant Protection Department (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development), said that Japan's authorization for Vietnam to supervise the disinfection treatment process of lychee exports to the Japanese market creates favorable conditions to increase lychee exports to Japan, reduce time and costs; and at the same time could set a similar precedent for other fruit products.

Customs News interviewed Dr Vu Tien Loc, Chairman of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) about solutions to support enterprises during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The European Union and the United States are working intensively to resolve their dispute over subsidies to aircraft makers and should be able to do so by July, the EU’s trade chief said yesterday.