Those parts relating to Hong Kong and five Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries, under the Investment Agreement (IA) between Hong Kong and ASEAN, will enter into force on June 17, a spokesperson for China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government was cited by China’s Xinhua News Agency on May 16.

On May 13, 2019, China's delegation to the World Trade Organization (WTO) submitted a long-awaited proposal on WTO reform. Due to the U.S.' block of the appointment of judges of the WTO's Appellate Body (AB), the AB will cease to function at the end of 2019, thus paralyzing the dispute settlement mechanism, which lies at the heart of the world trading system and is hailed as the crown of pearl of the WTO.

President Donald Trump’s decision to lift steel and aluminum tariffs on Mexico and Canada is welcome news for the U.S. pork industry. It also comes at a time when American pork producers are hurting from the escalating U.S.-China trade war.

A delegation of Vietnamese businesses has visited Canada to promote textile and garment exports to the North American nation under the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

Singapore, New Zealand and Chile launched trilateral talks on the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA) on May 18, on the sidelines of the APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade Meeting in Chile.

Vietnam has a great potential to grow its E-commerce business, especially after the shifted investors attention from China towards Vietnam for the next manufacturing hub in the east.

The same week U.S. President Donald Trump announced sweeping increases on tariffs against Chinese goods, Chinese buyers dropped orders for 3,247 metric tonnes of U.S. pork - the biggest cancellation in more than a year, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data released on Thursday.

Vietnam is the biggest beneficiary in the shift of the investment flow from China amidst the Sino-American trade war, according to Maybank Kim Eng senior economist Chua Hak Bin.

Vietnamese tra fish, a major foreign currency earner, has gradually won the trust of Japanese consumers as seen in the market’s emergence as one of the 10 biggest tra fish importers of Vietnam.

The US food and agriculture industry says New Zealand is among those "stealing" markets from American exporters as pressure ramps up on the Trump administration to secure a trade deal with Japan.