Britain has set a deadline of Oct. 15 to strike a free-trade deal with the European Union, and if none is agreed both sides should “accept that and move on,” UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will say on Monday.

Australians are outraged or resolutely unmoved by the series of World Trade Organization (WTO) and quarantine actions announced by China in the past few weeks. The more hot-headed commentators cast these moves as a threat to Australia's sovereignty. The more level-headed of those involved in trade decisions are determined to treat each as a separate event.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says the UK and EU are entering the "moment of reckoning" over a post-Brexit trade deal - and spoke of the two remaining sticking points ahead of crunch negotiations this week.

Export prices of Vietnam’s 5% broken rice have climbed to US$488-492 per tonne, up US$25 from a month ago and marking the highest levels for years.

To expand Vietnam’s wood industry sustainably, its development strategy must not only focus on the policies of importing countries but also domestic priorities.

The complex development of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country and the world has caused a serious impact on the import – export activities of Vietnam. The trade balance of goods in the first eight months of 2020 is estimated to reach $11.9 billion according to the General Statistics Office of Vietnam.

Rodrigo Yañez, the undersecretary of Chile's Undersecretariat for Trade Economic Relations, recently visited South Korea, the country's fifth-largest trading partner, and its first Asian partner in a free trade agreement, with the intention of resuming the negotiations to update the FTA between both countries that were interrupted by the pandemic.

More than 7,200 sets of certificates of origin (C/O) of the EUR.1 form were granted to Vietnamese products worth a total of US$277 million, allowing them to export to 28 EU countries, a month since the coming into effect of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA).

Since the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was established on September 2, 1945, the country has risen from a zero-budget nation, which had to call for contributions from citizens, to a middle-income country with a dynamic economy.

Vietnamese garment makers have been struggling due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has disrupted the supply of materials while end products are failing to sell as many countries have put in place distancing measures and closed distribution lines.