On 8 June 2020 Vietnam ratified the European Union - Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) and the European Union - Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA). The EVFTA will provide expansive preferential markets access for goods traded between Vietnam and the European Union (EU). The EVFTA will enter into effect on 1 August 2020.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) plans to discuss the establishment of a panel to deal with the year-long trade row between South Korea and Japan, after Seoul reopened the case at the Geneva-based trade body amid a lack of progress in their bilateral talks.

Minister of Industry and Trade Trần Tuấn Anh has signed Circular 11/2020/TT-BCT about rules of origin in the European Union – Việt Nam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA).

India plans to impose stringent quality control measures and higher tariffs on imports from China, people with the knowledge of the matter said, as a military standoff between the neighbors threaten economic ties.

The United States has announced is it considering applying import tariffs to a number of European products exported to the US, including beer, gin and olives.

The World Trade Organisation is in the news mostly for the wrong reasons nowadays. Many people regard it as an ineffective policeman of an outdated rule book that is unsuited to the challenges of the 21st-century global economy. WTO members generally agree the organisation urgently needs reforming to remain relevant.

Domestic and foreign businesses are hailing the ratification of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) by the Vietnamese National Assembly as a significant milestone in Vietnam-EU cooperation.

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, Vietnam's shrimp exports to the US grew positively in the first five months of 2020.

Vietnam’s logistics service industry is preparing infrastructure and techniques to grasp opportunities from the Europe-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) to attract foreign investors with a wave of factories.

The United States moved to maintain pressure on the European Union in a 16-year dispute over aircraft subsidies by flagging possible changes in tariffs on EU goods, as the date for a decision on reciprocal EU duties slipped to the autumn.