NO-DEAL Brexit draws closer as UK officials admit they are failing to make importance progress on the contentious Irish border conundrum with their European Union counterparts as negotiations resume.

Pakistan would evaluate its trade policy according to modern trends, and implement the strategic policy framework 2015/19 in letter and spirit to boost the country’s exports.

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) on August 15 published an article on its website saying inaccurate information about Vietnamese tra fish on several Romanian websites could affect Vietnam’s tra fish exports to this market.

Japan's foreign minister has met his new Colombian counterpart and asked the South American country to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement.

The South Korean government is going to accede to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

Seoul is unlikely to ratify the deal if the U.S. slaps levies on auto imports on national security grounds, which some say it won't do.

Japan and Peru "are important partners in promoting free trade," Kono said during talks in Lima, while Popolizio said the two countries share basic values and seek multilateral cooperation.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade forecast that the steel sector will maintain annual growth of nearly 20 percent this year, including construction steel (up 10 percent), cold rolled coil (5 percent), straight welded steel pipes (15 percent), galvanised iron sheet and colour coated paint (12 percent). Hot rolled coil is expected to see the strongest growth of up to 154 percent.

China's commerce ministry said a U.S. decision to subsidise renewable energy firms and impose tariffs on imported products has seriously distorted the global market and harmed China's interests, firing the latest shot in a broader trade conflict.

India’s state is a mirror of its noisy, messy democracy. It’s often hard to achieve even a modest internal consensus between government departments in New Delhi: Right now, the heads of several ministries are scrambling to find a common position on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP -- a giant trade deal that stitches together India, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Oceania, China, Japan and Korea. At the end of August, ministers from the 16 RCEP countries will meet in Singapore; India needs to work out a constructive stand by then. There’s a very real chance that, if New Delhi’s negotiators continue to be obstructionist, the other 15 countries will move ahead without India.