Vietnam and Ethiopia will soon initiate negotiations on key agreements to establish a favourable legal framework for economic cooperation.

Key areas of cooperation include logistics, distribution, textile investment, and multilateral trade frameworks such as ASEAN–RoK, RCEP, APEC and IPEF.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the Trump administration’s decision on Friday to exempt electronic devices — like smartphones, iPhones and laptops — from tariffs was only a temporary reprieve but those products will face separate levies, adding more confusion to an already chaotic rollout of tariffs on Chinese goods.

US President Donald Trump's administration granted exclusions from steep tariffs on smartphones, computers and some other electronics imported largely from China, providing a big break to tech firms like Apple that rely on imported products.

US President Donald Trump said he could offer some exemptions to his 10% tariff on most US trading partners — even as he insisted that it is “pretty close” to a floor for nations seeking to negotiate trade deals.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Monday that US tariffs have the potential to disrupt the global economic order, issuing his strongest warning to date about the damage President Donald Trump's decisions could inflict on the world economy.

VNA reporter interviewed VCCI Chairman Pham Tan Cong about the risk of global trade war; as well as recommendations to adapt to this challenging context.

Taiwanese officials held their first tariff talks with US officials on Friday, with both sides looking forward to further discussions soon, the island's government said on Saturday.

Preliminary conclusions from the European Commission state that the dumping margins for Vietnamese companies range from 0 to 12.1 per cent.

US President Donald Trump has — for now — backed off of his steepest tariff increases. But with other duties still in place, doing business in the US is about to get costlier for European Union (EU) companies.