Vietnam is among the top textile-producing countries and apparel exporters in the world, emerging as an ideal alternative to China

Việt Nam remains France’s largest goods supplier in ASEAN and Vietnamese exports still have the opportunity to penetrate further into the European market.

With its relatively impressive economic growth last year, Vietnam is garnering some high-profile optimism from the international community in terms of a strong recovery this year, with the private sector to having an even bigger role to play.

Vietnam should develop a generation of young entrepreneurs in the timber industry, and consider it a sector for startups, said President of the Handicraft and Wood Industry Association (HAWA) of HCM City Nguyen Quoc Khanh.

Having secured free trade agreements (FTAs) with almost all key trading partners, Australia is honing in on a long elusive but lucrative market — India. Tensions with China, the need to find new sources of economic growth and government policy to diversify trading partners are pushing Australia into India’s arms.

It is important to improve the capacity of enterprises and not just develop them in term of quantity, experts said.

Global Trade Outlook for 2021 shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic; more optimism but significant uncertainties remain.

After seven years of difficult negotiation, China and the European Union announced in December that a Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) had been reached “in principle”.

Turkey and Uzbekistan on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding to improve bilateral relations and cooperation.

The Vietnamese economy will grow by 6.5 percent a year over the next decade as the government diversifies export markets and improves infrastructure, Fitch Solutions has forecast.