When India began negotiations with ASEAN in 2004 for a free trade agreement (FTA) covering the goods sector, it marked a major step in the evolution of the country’s engagement with the global economy.

HA NOI (VNS) — Vietnamese enterprises are preparing for further integration as the country is close to signing many free-trade agreements (FTAs), which will bring not only opportunities but also challenges. According to Pham Xuan Trinh, general director of the Phong Phu Corporation which operates in the garment and textile sector, foreign firms are pouring investments into this sector to take advantage of the benefits that the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement will bring.

When Japanese and United States trade negotiators met in Washington DC last week for bilateral talks on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact, the outcome mattered to many other countries. The TPP has grown to include 12 countries that represent about 40 per cent of global gross domestic product and about a third of all world trade.

(VEN) - Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh paid a working visit to the US from September 15-19. During the visit, Vietnam and the US pledged to maintain tight coordination in dealing with pending issues through flexible and specific actions to accelerate negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP).

HANOI, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam will pause quarantine license for vegetables, fruits exported to Europe from now to Jan. 31, 2015, said the Post-import Plant Quarantine Center under Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's Department of Plant Protection on Wednesday. Earlier, local media reported that Vietnamese vegetables exported to the European Union (EU) have been continuously warned for detection of bacteria harmful to consumers' health.

Last week the U.S. government settled a long-running trade dispute with Brazil, winning taxpayers the privilege of continuing to subsidize America’s wealthy cotton farmers in exchange for our commitment to subsidize Brazilian cotton farmers, as well. That’s right! We get to pay U.S. cotton farming businesses to overproduce, export, and suppress global prices to the detriment of Brazilian (and other countries’) cotton farmers provided that we compensate the Brazilians to the tune of $300 million.

The negotiations on Kazakhstan's accession to the WTO are in the final stage.

(Reuters) - A trade pact sought by the United States, Japan and other Asia-Pacific nations would be "incomplete" in the long term without China, a top Chinese official said on Wednesday. Beijing is currently not at the table with the 12 nations negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal, but China's Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said it would be lacking without China's vast economy.

There is something about anti-dumping laws that suggest a hidden agenda. While the laws were ostensibly framed to protect a domestic industry from the evil eyes and unfair trade practices of a foreign exporter, they seem to be working more towards protecting vested interests and negate competition. There’s also the issue of the Directorate General of Anti-dumping & Allied Duties’ style of functioning and its policy of ‘normally’ not giving ‘press interviews.’ So, the real question when it comes to anti-dumping laws is who is trying to protect whom from whom? 

After the recent seventh round of negotiations on the United States-European Union (EU) Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), it was confirmed that talks have progressed beyond its conceptual framework and are now concentrated on the concrete proposals made by each side on the trade agreement's various chapters.