In framework of Midterm Vietnam Business Forum, 2017 (VBF), numerous think-tanks as well as faces from business organization, companies… contribute ideas for improving Vietnam economy, in climate of international challenges.

When Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull visited India two months ago, he made much of reviving stalled free trade talks — but developments in India this week show the prospects of eventual success are remote at best.

Vietnam is mulling which sections of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement can be renegotiated after the withdrawal of the U.S., Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said in an interview on the sidelines of the conference.

HCMC – South Korean business executives in a dialogue on June 13 with the HCMC Customs Department complained the prevailing customs regulations are difficult to comply with and requested such rules be further streamlined.

Once the EU-Việt Nam Voluntary Partnership Agreement on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (VPA-FLEGT) comes into force, there will be opportunities for Việt Nam to export more wooden products to Europe and other markets, delegates told a seminar in HCM City on Tuesday.

Trade Undersecretary Ceferino S. Rodolfo said Vietnam is in discussions with the Philippine government for the sourcing of textiles.

RUTH Davidson is either confused or is deliberately obfuscating on Brexit (“Scottish Tories ready to flex their muscles”, The Herald June 12). Weekend reports had her demanding an "open Brexit" that prioritises free trade over limiting immigration, but, alternatively, having access as now to the single market and staying out of the Common Fisheries Policy (the "Norway model"). These two positions are contradictory because the EU is designed solely to be a protectionist bloc.

Last week's election results in the United Kingdom makes free trade agreements between Australia and the EU and Britain much harder, with Britain unable to influence EU thinking in Australia's favour, and itself too distracted by an uncertain Brexit to pursue any bilateral trade deals of its own.

China and Singapore will do their best to expedite talks on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), Singapore's foreign minister said, calling the potential pact a statement on the importance of free trade.

The European Commission is negotiating a free trade deal with Japan behind closed doors. Critics complain that Brussels has learned nothing from the controversy surrounding CETA and TTIP. EURACTIV Germany reports.