In the context of the COVID-19 epidemic, e-commerce is the "escape route" for industries, including wooden furniture, helping manufacturers escape the limits of space and geographical distance, and increasing their ability to reach customers. This is also the direction that Vietnam wood processing enterprises are trying to accelerate to bring products to global consumers.

Vietnamese enterprises shipped around 500 tonnes of goods, including coffee, instant noodles, sweet potato, cabbage, pineapple, watermelon, and dragon fruit, to Singapore in March, according to the Vietnamese Trade Office in Singapore.

The South Korean and U.S. governments agreed to beef up their cooperation based on the KORUS FTA with trade environments becoming increasingly volatile due to the spread of COVID-19.

With the initial outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) occurring over two months ago, the scale of the virus has begun to take a heavy toll on many Vietnamese firms, prompting them to either scale back production and lay off staff or face bankruptcy.

The stocks under the programme are acquired and released in order to meet the domestic food security needs of India's poor and vulnerable population, and not to impede commercial trade or food security of others, the notification said.

WITH the Covid-19 outbreak, South-east Asia's gross domestic product growth is expected to slow sharply to just 1 per cent in 2020, before rebounding to 4.7 per cent in 2021, according to an Asian Development Bank report on April 3. This is down from 2019's full-year growth rate of 4.4 per cent.

The Minister of Industry and Trade recently signed the issuance of Circular No. 06/2020 / TT-BCT amending and supplementing articles of Circular No. 03/2019 / TT-BCT regulating rules of goods origin in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

The European Council on March 30 passed a decision to ratify the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), paving the way for the deal to come into force.

The Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Vietnam (EVFTA) is heading into the final stage before taking effect, opening up a new potential market for Vietnamese businesses.

The part relating to the Philippines under the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and the Investment Agreement (IA) between China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will take effect on May 12, the HKSAR government announced on Tuesday.