The government is set to place general safeguard duties on rice imports by the end of the month or early October.

China and the United States are taking steps to de-escalate the trade war. It has raised hopes for a breakthrough at the scheduled talks next month. While there could be an agreement to ease some of the tit-for-tat punitive measures, a complete solution is unlikely.

Director general-level diplomats from South Korea and Japan will hold talks this week amid the ongoing trade spat between the two countries, Seoul's foreign ministry said Thursday.

Britain will definitely leave the European Union on Oct. 31, no matter what, visiting British Secretary of State for Brexit Stephen Barclay said here Wednesday.

The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) offers many opportunities to Vietnamese workers and just as many challenges. The country’s labour force must find ways to improve its quality in order to produce products that adhere to stricter standards in European markets, said policymakers and labour experts at a conference in Hà Nội on Tuesday.

Việt Nam has implemented many solutions according to the European Commission (EC)’s nine recommendations to remove the yellow card warning on the country’s fishing industry. In November, the EC will come to Việt Nam for the second time to check and re-evaluate the implementation of these recommendations.

The Party and State’s policy on economic restructuring associated with transforming the growth model towards sustainability has been implemented drastically in recent years and achieved positive results, which need to be mainatined in the near future, a report has said.

Vietnam is finding it’s hard to win a trade war even when businesses are trying to hand you victories.

Although having been warned beforehand, domestic iron sheet and steel industry is still unable to anticipate increasing trade protectionism pressure, leading to extremely fierce competition in global market.

Not unlike during the Cold War, the world today is about to split into two trading blocs with deeply-rooted opposing ideologies: One faction led by the United States and the other controlled by communist China.