More and more Italian textile firms are investing in Vietnam to take advantage of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) and export to the European market, experts said.

With more positive developments in the world economy and the rapid recovery of China, the Vietnamese economy has foundations to hope for a strong economic recovery in the future, according to Duong Manh Hung, Director of the General Statistic Office (GSO)’s National Accounts Department.

Both nations have strong reasons to forge more robust economic and strategic ties

The long-awaited free trade agreement (FTA) between Colombia and Israel is finally in force. Even though the negotiation process began in March 2012, the FTA was signed in September 2014 after five rounds of negotiations, which ended on June 2013. However, it took eight years before the agreement finally came into effect for both parties on 11 August 2020.

Rejoining CPTPP would provide an important boost to US strategy on China

Canada represents a potential market for Vietnamese wood and furniture firms to expand into and increase their market share, according to experts at an online trade exchange held in Ho Chi Minh City on September 30.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, from September 4 to September 17, six enterprises appliedfor certification with a volume of approximately 4.3 thousand tonnes of fragrant rice exported to the EU. Rice exports including fragrant rice to the EU will continue to increase despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic from now until the end of the year.

The European General Court has rejected the European Commission’s (EC) request to reject a complaint submitted by Cambodia and the Cambodian Rice Federation (CRF) regarding the EU’s reintroduction of tariffs on Indica rice exports from Cambodia, according to the Phnom Penh Post.

The United Kingdom said it has Vietnam's support to join a trans-Pacific trade deal, a boost for the country facing the dire economic impacts of Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic.

A group of Republican lawmakers is calling on the Trump administration to open trade talks with Taiwan in a bid to thwart economic and national security threats from China.