China has planned to expand its network of free trade and is willing to sign more free trade agreements (FTAs) with its trade partners to jointly promote free and convenient trade and investment, Gao Feng, spokesperson of the Ministry of Commerce said at a regular press briefing on Thursday

Boris Johnson’s hopes of striking an early trade deal with the US — seen as one of the biggest prizes of Brexit — have faded after new warnings that such pacts were not a priority for president Joe Biden’s new administration.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal on January 22, during a telephone conversation with the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance of Canada Chrystia Freeland discussed the extending of the free trade agreement between the two countries. This was reported by the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers.

Vietnam’s total import and export turnover in 2020 reached US$545.35 billion, up 5.4 percent compared to the previous year, reported the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

Trade and investment ties between Việt Nam and India, both dynamic and rapidly developing economies, are not commensurate with the potential and need to be enhanced, according to their officials and diplomats.

Việt Nam's economy has gained many important and comprehensive achievements in the 2016-20 period, helping highlight the country’s success in 35 years of Đổi mới (Renewal) process.

Asian economies in the post-pandemic era will need to continue to work together to further facilitate regional cooperation including free trade agreements (FTAs) and create new impetus into regional growth, according to a report released by the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) on Jan. 14.

2020 was one of the most disruptive years in recent memory for global trade and the rules-based multilateral trading system.

As 2020 drew to a close, leaders from the EU and China confirmed that after nearly seven years of negotiations, they had clinched an agreement-in-principle on investment.

Nikkei Asia, a global leading financial newspaper run by Japanese media giants Nikkei Inc., has recently hailed Vietnam’s success in economic development amid the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic.