US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced $113 million as a down payment in US economic commitment for peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region. A day later, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announced a framework with Japan and the US on infrastructure development in the region.

Trump tariff fallout: India becomes steel dumping ground; imports from China jump 67%, Japan 47% and Korea 35%

Britain is looking more likely than ever to crash out of the European Union without a deal, according to the UK's international trade secretary Liam Fox.

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has formed a dispute panel to settle Việt Nam’s complaint against the anti-dumping measures put in place by the United States on Vietnamese fish fillets.

Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Finance Đỗ Hoàng Anh Tuấn and Croatian Minister of Finance Zdravko Marić on Wednesday signed an agreement on the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to income taxes.

The escalating trade war between the U.S. and China has prompted the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to call for accelerated negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, a free trade framework involving ASEAN and six partner countries.

The EU is the third largest trade partner of Việt Nam and one of the country’s two biggest export markets. Two-way trade grew 12-fold to US$50.4 billion in 2017 from only $4.1 billion in 2000.

Japan’s economy revitalization minister Toshimitsu Motegi has welcomed the UK’s expression of interest in joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), according to Kyodo News.

With the European Union and Japan recently signing a comprehensive economic partnership agreement and with the 11-member Comprehensive & Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) moving toward implementation, the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) assessed the potential U.S. pork and beef industry losses that could result from Japan’s participation in these agreements.

Amid growing concerns about China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), India and Japan are partnering for creating a viable alternative for infrastructure