Most types of yarn and woven and knitted fabrics originating from India will be exempt from customs duties in Vietnam from January 1, 2019, under the ASEAN – India Trade in Goods Agreement (AITIDA).

A seminar on boosting Vietnam – France economic ties via the EU – Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) took place in Paris on December 20, attracting about 100 participants.

Like Kevin Cheung, vice president of a New York-based clothing company, many in the U.S. fashion and apparel industry breathed a sigh of relief amid the temporary trade truce coming from the consensus reached by the presidents of the United States and China on the sidelines of the recent G20 summit.

The European Union’s data watchdog will decide in coming weeks if financial regulators around the world can routinely swap information to keep markets clean without getting tangled up in the EU’s new data protection regime.

The US-China trade war is spooking potential investors in soyabean crushing plants planned for Wisconsin and New York state, developers said, casting doubt on the future of a sector that had been a rare bright spot in the US farm economy.

China plans to make a third round of U.S. soybean purchases within days, two sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday, after a trade war truce between Washington and Beijing this month triggered two waves of buying.

Currently, these items attract up to 20% customs duties. New Delhi feels any move to cut duties would run contrary to its Make-in-India initiatives, raise non-essential imports (which it wants to curb) and cause customs revenue losses.

There was a collective sigh of relief on Oct. 31, 2018 when the parties renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) announced that a handshake deal had been reached on the terms of a new NAFTA. After more than a year of handwringing, nail biting, lobbying and sometimes less-than-diplomatic grandstanding, the parties had at long last found common ground.

The United States will call for the inclusion of a provision to prevent currency devaluations in a trade agreement the country is eager to strike with Japan, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said Friday.

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is set to deploy a trade attaché for Budapest in Hungary to strengthen its presence in Europe and enhance efforts to promote trade and investment opportunities in the Philippines to European firms.