Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue chaired the sixth meeting of the national steering committee for ASEAN single window (ASW), national single window (NSW) and trade facilitation (Committee 1899) in Hanoi on February 6, to implement its tasks set for 2020.

Snub is a further sign New Delhi may pull out of trade deal negotiations

The U.S. Commerce Department on Monday finalized a new rule to impose anti-subsidy duties on products from countries that it has determined undervalue their currencies against the dollar, including potentially China.

Vietnam has been the beneficiary of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the Eurasian Economic Union since 2016, as a result of which bilateral trade with Russia has boomed. With three years of experience and investment in increasing trade infrastructure, Vietnamese importers, distributors and retailers considering expanding this trade should be conducting market research activities into the opportunities in this market.

The fact that large foreign direct investment (FDI) enterprises like Heineken Vietnam and Coca-Cola were collected tax arrears shows that the management of investment activities and anti-transfer pricing on FDI enterprises has not been effective.

2020 is the perfect year for beginning negotiations for a U.S.–Taiwan free trade (FTA) agreement. After progress on the U.S.–Mexico–Canada Agreement, phase one of the U.S.–China Economic and Trade Agreement, and the U.S.–Japan Trade Agreement, Taiwan is the obvious next trading partner for the United States. As China pressures countries to disregard Taiwan’s participation in international organizations and regional trade pacts, and as Beijing continues to increase its own efforts to make Taiwan’s economy more dependent on China, the timing is crucial. An FTA with Taiwan is long overdue and the U.S. should delay no longer.

Ng quiet on U.S.-China trade deal, as fight for WTO reform continues

Britain set out the type of deal it wants with the European Union on Monday, defining post-Brexit relations between the world’s fifth largest economy and its biggest trading partner.

Vietnam expects the ASEAN-Hong Kong Free Trade Agreement (AHKFTA) to boost the country’s exports of farm produce, aquatic products and processed food.

Vietnam has been unable to see growth in exports to all member nations of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), according to the country’s ministry of industry and trade. In 2019, export value surged by 28.2 per cent year on year to $3.86 billion to Canada and by 26.8 per cent to $2.84 billion to Mexico.